Nov 21, 09
Worldchanging Timeline: 2003-2009
We here at Worldchanging just celebrated our sixth anniversary! In addition to publishing a series of "101" posts, highlighting some of the iconic pieces we've published over the years, and a primer on blogs and other resources we lean heavily upon, we though that it might also be useful to share a timeline of the project so far, noting some representative events, to give the interested reader a sense of where we came from and how we got here; perhaps knowing something of the evolution of...
Worldchanging 101: POLITICS
How can we, as citizens, reclaim our nations and move toward a long-term vision of prosperity, health, safety and sustainability? Here are some of the most popular and enduring stories we've published in our first six years, stories we think offer a window into the Worldchanging archives. In these pages you'll find a treasury: more than 10,000 articles on cutting-edge solutions dating back as far as October 2003. This work pushes the boundaries of the global conversation on...
Worldchanging 101: An Anniversary Collection
Worldchanging is six years old today! To celebrate our sixth anniversary, we've created a collection of what you might think of as the Worldchanging canon: pieces that have had enduring popularity and that we think say something important. And it turns out the two overlap pretty well. After compiling a list of our most popular articles we noticed that a high proportion of our most read, forwarded and linked pieces not only represent groundbreaking work, they also highlight many of the core...
Worldchanging 101: COMMUNITY
What will it take to create a future of sustainable prosperity for every person on the planet? Here are some of the most popular and enduring stories we've published in our first six years, stories we think offer a window into the Worldchanging archives. In these pages you'll find a treasury: more than 10,000 articles on cutting-edge solutions dating back as far as October 2003. This work pushes the boundaries of the global conversation on sustainability, social innovation and planetary...
Youtube in the Amazon: Rural Peru's Transition to the Internet
Intro by Henry Jenkins: The following account will appear later this month in an issue of In Media Res, the newsletter of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. It was written by Audubon Dogherty, one of the graduate students I am working with this year. She is affiliated with the Center for Future Civic Media, which is funded by the Knight Foundation. Youtube in the Amazon: Rural Peru's Transition to the Internet by Audubon Dogherty We arrived in Cajamarca in northern Peru just in time...
Worldchanging Interview: Shawn Frayne
Shawn Frayne, president of Honolulu- and Hong Kong-based Humdinger Wind Energy, is a prolific inventor and innovator whose work has been inspired by the need for resourceful problem-solving in the world's most vulnerable regions. While working in Haiti, Frayne noted that providing wind power on a global scale would require hardware that's simpler and much cheaper than what we've got. In response, he teamed with aeronautical engineer Jordan McRae and mechanical engineer Dr. Kurt Kornbluth to...
And the Prize Goes to...incentive2innovate
Incentives. Results. How to align incentives to achieve real results is one of my many takeaways from the past 2 days, which I spent at the incentive2innovate conference, a non-traditional gathering of big business types, entrepreneurs, policymakers and non-profits. Interestingly, the event wasn’t focused on a particular set of outcomes (end poverty; clean up the environment, etc.); rather, it offered a set of non traditional tools that practitioners can deploy in...
Recession and Innovation
At the close of a year that's been a tough one, I've been inspired by people around me to remember that it's often times like these – when things are at their worst – that potential for real and positive change is arguably at its very highest. There is no question that the final months of 2008 have been bleak. Residents of countries around the world face the stress and insecurity of unemployment, and governments – especially the United States -- are turning to last-resort stimulus...
2007's Best: Sustainable Development
My early look at The Open Architecture Network and the Future of Design, about Cameron's work turning Architecture for Humanity into a design amplifier Some demographers call it the largest migration in human history: the movement of hundreds of millions of poor rural people to the emerging megacities where they believe they can build themselves a better future. Overall, the urbanization of the planet is a good thing, helping people struggle out of absolute poverty, increasing access to...
Time Banks: Collaborative Capacity Building, Web 2.0-Style
Time banks, a mechanism that relies on mutual collaboration to promote sustainability and cohesiveness in communities, can leverage the use of new communication tools to lead deprived communities towards prosperity and heal the gaping omissions in public services. Time banks effectively use people’s time and talents as currency for exchanges of value. It's been effectively used across the world to tackle explicit local issues, such as childcare provision or urban regeneration. It's also...
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