Barry Schwartz at TED

Some inspiring points extrapolated from recent Barry Schwartz’s speech at TED:

- Human interactions involving kindness care and empathy are essential part of the job.
- Wise persons:

know when and how to make the exception to every rule;
know how to improvise;
are like jazz musician, using the notes on the page but dancing around them, inventing combination that [...]

Rome group of KM4Dev met yesterday

Yesterday the Rome group of KM4Dev met for the second time since January ‘09, when the idea was launched during the ShareFair 09.

As you can see for this picture everybody enjoyed the meeting and the idea of creating a new group.
The main topic debated was: CMS implementation and related training needs. The discussions [...]

Participatory photography?

In Darlene E. Clover’s description participatory photography:
“places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities.”
Learn more on participatory photography with the PhotoVoice Manual.
p.s.: I was able to know participatory photography and learn about it thanks [...]

Numbers of the world of mobile phones

A very useful summary of the International Telecommunications Union’s 2009 edition of  Measuring the Information Society – The ICT Development Index (PDF, 1.53MB) has been published by Antonella Pastore on the blog of the ICT-Km Program.
A very interesting question comes out of the analysis: “is this the end of the Web as we know it?“
The [...]

\o/ FrontLineSMS new release

kiwanja is releasing a new version of its famous software FrontLineSMS, the leading SMS management platform. Now the software allows users to manage forms to collect and share data:

You can read more on afromusing, an interesting blog on innovation, technology and beyond or on Ken’s blog.

Why local content creation is so important for farmers

Interview during the MobileActive 2008 World Summit (Johannesburg, South Africa) with Mary NAKIRYA, Program coordinator at BROSDI, Busoga Open Source & Development Initiative, in Uganda.
Mary explains how the CELAC (Collecting & Exchange of Local Agricultural Content) project enables farmers to voice record their own innovative techniques and how they disseminate their experiences with radio/CD players [...]

WIRED.IT is in the bookshop!

Benvenuto WIRED.IT!!!

We are very glad that the Italian edition of WIRED is coming in our bookshop!
Read the editorial which introduces this new entry and the scenario the publication wants to describe and sustain will be clear!

I really appreciated the following lines:
“Wired siete voi,
voi che vi entusiasmate per un progetto che ci migliora la vita, voi [...]

Faces form twitter

A funny tool to visualize the “faces” of those who are following you on twitter:

Something I discover thanks to my friend Gauri.