December 2011
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Aerial Airport Patterns
Hubert Branz
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Global Pulse General Assembly Briefing 2011
On 8 November 2011, the Global Pulse team briefed the United Nations General Assembly on its Research Projects, Technology Toolkit, country-based Pulse Labs and its plans for the coming year. The briefing also featured a keynote address by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This video is an edited version of the full 1.5 hour event and provides a summary of Global Pulse’s work in 2010.
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Animal Maps
Wrenay Gomez Charlton
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Erik Hersman: Africa on the Rise
Hersman asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa’s—and the world’s—fastest growing economies.
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Skateboarding Innovation
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Digital Portrait Uses Video Clips As Paint
Sergio Albiac’s “videorative portraits” use videos about the subject’s life as digital paint, so that each piece is made of the sitter’s own memories.
via FastCoDesign
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Clay Shirky on Social Media's Impact on...