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Blog Action Day 2009 Poverty – Connection against Poverty

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Heute ist der BlogActionDay 2008 Armut!

Blogger auf der ganzen Welt vereinigen sich um ueber Armut zu schreiben und diskutieren.

Ich habe schon ein paar Artikel ueber Armut geschrieben und denke, dass wir die Generation sind die die notwendigen Mittel hat Armut zu besiegen! Eines dieser Mittel ist das Internet und ueberhaupt die heutige Vernetzung aller Menschen ueber die ganze Welt hinweg. Nachdem ich diesen Artikel geschrieben habe kann ihn jeder auf der ganzen Welt mit Internetempfang lesen. Eigentlich sollte ich den Artikel somit auf Englisch schreiben, aber ich bin ja nicht der einzige der heute schreibt:

Ein ganz wichtiger Schritt zum Sieg ueber die Armut ist natuerlich damit die weitere Vernetzung der Welt, dazu arbeite ich und interessiere ich mich fuer folgende Projekte:

1. Mobiltelefone gegen Armut (Iqbal-Quadir)

Ich hatte sogar persoenlich die Ehre mit Igbal zu sprechen und ihn sprechen zu hoeren ueber seine Projekte in der 3. Welt und das Legatum Center am Massachusetts Instiute of Technology (MIT) – www.iqbalquadir.com/

2. Ich habe 15 OLPC-laptops letztes Jahr zu Weihnachten gekauft

Das GiveOneGetOne Programm war und ist eine tolle Idee und die Laptops sind ein unglaublicher Schritt in die richtige Richtung, alleine wenn man sich nur ansieht was die OLPCs fuer den Rest des Laptopmarktes getan haben. Im Moment arbeite ich mit VW Californien an einem Projekt das die Laptops in Autos zur Verwendung bringen soll: ideas.redwired.org/VWLaptopChallenge

3. Ideenwettbewerbe zur Bekaempfung der Armut aber allgemein fuer die Hilfe der Menschheit sind ein weiterer Schritt um die Menschheit aufzufordern etwas zu tun:

10 hoch 100 Projekt von Google

Imagine Cup von Microsoft

und mein, im Vergleich kleines Projekt: Redwired Ideas

Damit kann ich nur mit den BlogActionDay Worten enden: "I am participating. Are you?"
NEWS und Tipps und Videos und weiteres zum heutigen BlogActionDay 2008 ARMUT gibt es auf http://blogactionday.org/

Alles Gute wuenscht euch euer,
Daniel

Siftables and Other

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

0. In my last blog I interviewed David Merrill (PhD Candidate at the MIT MEDIA LAB), who is the creator of SIFTABLES.

Having been in the i-team, finding a way for Siftables to enter the Market, I keep a close look for the NEW in this area and what I consider worth sharing at the moment are

1. The HP TouchSmart

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2. Or the upcoming! XO-2

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For products like the latter, I thought Apple would be first, but lately I find that Apple really waits until a product has proven ground and THEN develops a “new” shiny version. So, we will have to wait a bit longer, until Apple makes something like the XO-2, although, they surely have a whole lot of the necessary patents to do anything they want!

3. And here is the Napkin PC, something I already showed to the i-team during our first meeting this spring. It is just a Design, BUT Siftables – you better hurry up! ;_)

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The Napkin PC ended up winning the Microsoft NextGen PC Design Competition (2007-2008)!

Entrants in next year’s competition will gain even more recognition when it is folded into Microsoft’s Imagine Cup!:

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The OLPC laptops will arrive in 10 days!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

On Monday things cleared up when I spoke with Adam Holt from the OLPC Foundation, situated right across the street in Kendall Square. Yesterday I sent the check for the 15+15 Laptops to the foundation:

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I was ensured that I will receive the laptops in 10 business days. Just in time, when I will be going to Austria.

Archive:

Good News!: Merry Xmas to Everyone and especially 15 Children in the 3rd World!

Collaboration with KIMEKI 2008

Arts and Media – 27.02.08

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

1. Siggraph 2008

http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/

Join Siggraph in Los Angeles in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics and interactive techniques community. They are dissolving the borders between traditional SIGGRAPH programs to create a more fluid, interdisciplinary conference. They are offering presenters more flexible options for sharing their work.

Check out the Preview Video.

2. NextFest

http://www.wired.com/promo/infinitiex/
NextFest
WIRED’s vision of a new World’s Fair, WIRED NextFest is a four-day festival of innovative products and technologies that are transforming our world. NextFest features more than 160 interactive exhibits from leading scientists and researchers around the world. Experience the future of communication, design, entertainment, exploration, health, play, robots, transportation, security, and green living. Visitors of all ages are welcome.

3. Negroponte on the soon to be $50 Laptop

Negroponte

Electronics are getting obese! Read the full article!

Good News!: Merry Xmas to Everyone and especially 15 Children in the 3rd World!

Monday, December 24th, 2007

iPressl bought 15 laptops today through the Give One Get One Program of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation. Currently, there are only 5 OLPC laptops in Austria, therby increasing the number of OLPC laptops in Austria times four. High Schools in Vienna and one school in Carinthia, as well as KIMEKI will be and are working with the laptops. I am already envisioning many projects in collaboration with KIMEKI, as well as schools and kindergardens in Austria. The OLPC laptop is an incredible push in technology, it is an open source project and already has incredible cababilites with an endless number of things to come (see also the OLPC Wiki)!

Merry Christmas!

Children in the 3rd World Classroom

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