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Around the web in week 48, 2012
Fundstücke published this week:
- UNCTAD sees expanding opportunity for developing countries to engage in local software development30 Nov 2012
Information Economy Report 2012
- Concord Aidwatch 201230 Nov 2012
The AidWatch Special Report assesses the process of the Busan Partnership Agreement and the quality …
Around the web in week 47, 2012
Fundstücke published this week:
- UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) call for proposals25 Nov 2012
The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organizations to submit proposals for fundin…
- MakerBot store in New York now officially open (TechCrunch)24 Nov 2012
MakerBot Introduces 3D Photo Booth In Its New York Store, Print Your Face In 3D
- Spotify’s plan for rescuing the music industry: let it fall apart first – Quartz21 Nov 2012
A business model based on giving access to, rather than owning rights of music.
- Mobile and Development Intelligence19 Nov 2012
Info and data on organisations, providers, projects working on ‘mobile for good’
- Akvo FLOW and the Text to Change SMS service, in one short film.21 Nov 2012, Luuk Diphoorn
If you’ve ever wanted to know how Akvo FLOW and the Text to Change SMS service can work along…
Around the web in week 46, 2012
Fundstücke published this week:
- SELEMCA welcomes Alice18 Nov 2012
An expressive robot that will have an ‘artifical moral reasoner’… (part of CRISP, Creative Industr…
- Deadline extended to Nov 30! Applications open for TESTING123 Innovation Fund at Global Integrity14 Nov 2012, Tobias Eigen
If you were planning to submit an application to the Global Integrity TESTING123 Innovation Fund, i…
Open Tea last Friday
We’ve organised another Open Tea, last Friday at the Vrije Universiteit, with updates, two presentations, and networking drinks, kindly hosted by CIS-VU, the Centre for International Cooperation at the VU University in Amsterdam.
Victor de Boer and Anna Bon helped make this possible, and Victor wrote a blog post about it. And Araz Najarian of Connective Age wrote up a summary of the presentations, including a link to a with co-presenter Nana Baah Gyan video demonstrating RadioMarché.
- Linked Data for Development: Victor de Boer and Christophe Guéret will present their work with the open research documents of IDS and the many IATI data sets that are already available.
- VOICES: Victor and Nana Baah Gyan present RadioMarché, a voice-based community centric mobile service for market information by web, mobile phone and radio.
If you want to join our next Open Tea, make sure you’re on our mailing list and get the announcement in time!
