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We would like to make a loop driving from Miami going to Orlando, Tampa, Key west , and ending in Fort Lauderdale. We have about 8 days. Any suggestion of places to stop and things must see?
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We'll be traveling to Florida over winter break (through New Year's). We're looking for an upscale family-friendly hotel/resort in/near Miami that would be appropriate for children as well as seniors. On the beach would be great, but not necessary. Any suggestions?
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Is there a ferry going from Miami to the Florida Keys. and if so could you send me information. thank you Linda Hankins
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how far is capa kennedy from boca raton? are there tour trips from boca raton to cape kennedy?
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want a nice hotel that has a shuttle to pick us up at the airport and drop us off at a cruise ship when we leave. in a good area of town that has lots of shopping and things to do at a reasonable price. j.j.
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we are going on acruise,looking for a hotel that will let us park our car there. do you know of any in or near Miami?
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I would like to stay at a hotel to see the 4th of July fireworks in the City of Miami. I want to view the fireworks from the hotel room up close; I don't want to be in the crowd. What is the best hotel that can accommodate this request.
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cloest attaction to miami airport here on a stop by for 4hrs looking to do a quick tour what do you recommend
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my 3 friends and I are going on a cruise on March 19th that leaves out of Miami, FL. We live in Portland, Oregon. At the time we bought our cruise tickets, it didn't occur to us that airfare might be higher because we will be flying into Miami during spring break, but when I look at airfare now The lowest price I can find is $594, and most tickets are in the $700 - $800 range. Usually I can find a ticket to Miami for $400 or less. Now I'm trying to figure out if we should take the $594 tickets or wait to see if prices will go down? Any advise would be greatly appreciated!
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I am getting married in October and I am looking for a good place to stay that is inexpensive. Looking for any ideas or suggestions. The wedding is taking most of the finances so dont have a lot to work with but would like to make the trip a memerable one. Can anybody help?
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Reflections on two days in a 'media silo'
I'm sitting in the old German parliament building listening to a plenary discussion on activism. It's my second day at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, and I'm in Bonn to help mentor Ashoka Fellows as part of their Globalizer programme, to speak on an Ashoka panel on social entrepreneurship, and to take part in a Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications discussion on how mobile technology is changing society.
It's been a busy three days, and I've had to regularly remind myself that I'm at a media-focused event.
We've had discussions on the future of journalism, new business models for the media, big media vs. social media, how to communicate in disasters, community building, social entrepreneurship, the Arab Spring, mobile connectivity, technology in Africa, democracy building, governance, digital security and privacy, surveillance, big data and how to engage youth in development. While media has been a thread running through much of the agenda, the conference has spent the majority of its time dealing with broader development issues.
I can't help but wonder if the tendency to run events by sector, which has historically been the case, means we fail to make the most of the opportunity. I know many people working in health, agriculture, human rights and social innovation – and many others – who would have benefitted greatly had they been here. But it's unlike any would have thought it worthwhile given the headline of the event. After thinking I'd find little to spark my interest, it turns out there were more relevant panels and sessions than I could have ever hoped to take part in.
In another event a few years ago, Tim Smit encouraged us to attend at least one conference a year on a topic that had no obvious relevance to us or our work. Although it's probably too much of an ask for most people, the point he was making was that we could learn a lot from other disciplines, but we rarely take the time to jump silos. Health experts go to health conferences and agriculture experts go to agriculture conferences, and so on. To make it worse, people who use mobiles in each of those go to separate events entirely – mHealth and mAgri. Despite speakers at almost every event we go to criticising silos and encouraging us to break them down whenever we can, the current system persists. It's far easier to say it and get a few tweets than to actually get something done.
Instead, could we build events around specific challenges? The discussion here yesterday on business models was fascinating, and much that was said would have been of relevance to the wider social sector. Yet the majority of people listening – and all of them on the panel – were from the media. Why not hold an event on business models and invite everyone. Who's to say that a health project can't learn something from one working in agriculture, or human rights?
If we're serious about breaking down silos then we could start by holding fewer sector-specific events, and running more on issues and challenges – and other common themes running through the 'for good' sector. Who knows, at the end of the two days delegates may even leave with genuine solutions to their problems, and action plans to take forward.
In other words, making the move from talk to action. Now, wouldn't that be something? In the meantime, if you're interested in cross-cultural issues in international development, ignore the word 'media' and come to Bonn next year.
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Tribute to a friend
It's quite fitting, really, that I find myself sitting in the most unlikely place – the foyer of a five star hotel in Saudi Arabia – randomly reading a tribute to a man who was instrumental in helping get me where I am today.
You won't find anything online about Frederick Richard Vivian Howard Cooper, not even news of his passing late last year. Freddie was an intensely private man. His phone number was ex-directory, and he never gave anyone his contact details. For the vast majority of the time I knew him it was his social club down the road from the housing estate where I grew up in Jersey that gave me the point of contact I needed. After the "Learning Centre" shut down in 2000, that point of contact was lost, and we only managed to reconnect on a couple of further occasions before his passing.
The last time we spoke I'd just got news of my fellowship at Stanford, and we shared a coffee in St. Helier and reminisced about his club, and the early computer-aided-learning (CAL) programs I'd written for him on the Commodore PET computer he used in his teaching.
I was about fourteen when he first let me loose on it, and it sparked the beginnings of my IT career. Freddie even wrote my first ever reference, in 1982, when I nearly dipped out of school early to pursue that career. Without his help I would never have learnt to code, and would never have gained the early experience which later helped me secure employment running mainframe computers for a number of banks in the Island. He gave me an amazing opportunity, and I took it.
When I think about everything that's happened to me since, and think about where I am today, Freddie Cooper was the early catalyst. He was an outstanding individual who gave many children on my housing estate guidance, friendship and advice over many years. He helped me gain experience on computers at a time when it was barely being taught in schools, and at a time when very few people could have afforded one of their own. Had it not been for him I would not have been able to code the first prototype version of FrontlineSMS almost twenty-five years later. All of the users of that software today – and the people benefitting from that use – have Freddie to thank, too. It seemed only fitting to credit the significant role he played in my recent book, "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator".
One regret is that I didn't get that one final chance to meet him and talk about all the exciting things happening today, and to thank him – and joke – one last time. He'd have been particularly proud of the work we're doing with National Geographic. But taking credit was never Freddie's style. If he'd wanted it, and wanted to be constantly reminded of what he'd done for the many people he'd helped, then he wouldn't have kept himself to himself and wouldn't have made it so difficult to track him down.
My career has been blessed by having met many wonderful people who've given me opportunities I could never have dreamed of. I took them all. Freddie Cooper set the ball rolling – and set the tone – over thirty years ago. And it's because of this that I believe so strongly that we should help everyone along on their own journey whenever and wherever we can.
As Tim Smit reminded me not so long ago:
Thanks, Freddie. For everything. May you rest in peace.
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Enabling a future generation of writers
This post was written by Rebecca Leege from World Vision.
When children are acquiring reading skills, good teaching is critical. But just as critical is the opportunity to practice reading. Practice allows children to apply skills learned in class and to expand their vocabulary and content knowledge through reading.
Unfortunately, children's reading materials are rare in developing countries. When they do exist, they are usually in languages most children do not understand or are at a level far too difficult for primary school students. There are many reasons for this dearth of appropriate materials, but one vital cause is that local publishers and authors lack a simple and efficient way of producing multiple titles in mother tongue languages that are suitable for and interesting to children in early primary school.
This is why All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD), established in 2011 as a partnership between USAID, World Vision and the Australian Government, is hosting Enabling Writers, a $100,000 prize competition aimed at finding technology-based solutions to improve reading skills for children in developing countries.. The global competition seeks to spur the development of software solutions that allow authors to easily create and export texts in mother tongue languages to help early-grade students to read. The Enabling Writers challenge, powered by InnoCentive, a global leader in crowdsourcing innovation problems, is one of several technology-for-literacy competitions being launched throughout Round 2 of ACR GCD.
After the submission period closes on 1st October 2014, three finalists will receive awards of $12,000 each. They will receive feedback from our judging panel and their innovations will then be piloted and reviewed in three countries with ACR GCD partner programs. The highest performing software will win a grand prize of $100,000.
Solvers' software should provide the two types of reading materials that early primary school children need:
1. Decodable readers for the earliest stages of reading acquisition that employ words using only the sounds and letters children have already learned.
2. Levelled readers that are controlled for vocabulary, word length, sentence length and other characteristics.
Both types of materials can be fiction and non-fiction. Successful software will allow writers to use an easy step-by-step process on a computer or mobile device and create texts that follow tested early-grade reading instruction methodologies. The software should:
- Work for writers who know a story they want to write or a subject matter they want to present but also provide less prepared writers with existing stories and nonfiction text that they could adapt for their audiences
- Ensure writers are kept within technical boundaries appropriate for the target reader and reading level
- Provide directions and prompts in a common national language but allow authors to write in both national and local languages.
For further information about All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development, please visit http://bit.ly/1jRqBJ1 or follow us @ReadingGCD on Twitter.
Rebecca Chandler Leege is World Vision's Project Director for their partnership in All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development. Prior to this, she was World Vision US's Director for Child Development and Protection since 2007. Rebecca also worked with World Relief for four years, initially based in Kigali, Rwanda as their Director of Programs before relocating to their headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland USA as Director of Global Program Operations. She has lived and worked throughout Africa and Asia for over 10 years. Rebecca also spent six years working in the private sector in international human resources.
May 28, 2014 No Comments
Innovation out of necessity is alive and well
(This article first appeared on the Virgin website as part of their special feature on innovation and disruption. The original post can be read here).
While much of the West debates the pros, cons, merits and current state of technological innovation, innovators in the developing world just get on with it. And they've never been so busy. Innovation out of necessity is alive and well, and on the rise, according to Ashoka Fellow, Ken Banks.
For many of us, innovation is the iPhone, iPad or pretty much anything that comes from today's high-tech production line. It's the latest phone, laptop, smart watch or passenger aircraft, and it's designed to make things easier, quicker, more convenient and, in some cases, just more fun. We rarely question why we feel we need the latest and greatest, why we change our phones every year, or even what the drivers might be for all these high-tech innovations. Who, for example, decided the world needed an iPad-powered coffee machine?
Much of the innovation we see in the developing world, whether the innovators behind them come from there or not, is done out of necessity. They solve very real problems, many of which happen to be faced on a daily basis by many of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet. Innovation here isn't about fast, shiny or modern, it's about solving very real problems. And many of those problems aren't going away any time soon.
Entrepreneurs in the West may well be losing the will to innovate, although I'd suggest it's more about ability and a conducive environment than will. Many face difficulties with funding, highly competitive markets and patent wars, all of which make for challenging times. But this is far from the case throughout much of Africa, where I've focused most of my efforts for the past 20 years. Many innovations here are born by the side of the road, or in rural villages without any funding at all. Furthermore, market opportunities abound and patents are the last things on people's minds. Compared to the West, African markets are still something of a Wild West in innovation terms, and this is precisely why there's so much focus there.
Innovation out of necessity has given Kenya, for example, a world-leading position in mobile payments. On a continent where hundreds of millions of people lacked bank accounts, mobile phones provided the answer. An estimated 40% of Kenya's GDP now works its way through Safaricom's M-PESA system. It's an innovation success story, and it's provided a platform for many other innovators to offer everything from pay-as-you-go solar lighting to villagers to automated payment platforms for microfinance organisations. The further (anticipated) opening up of systems like M-PESA will spur even more innovation in the future. This is just the beginning.
When faced with very real problems that in many cases cost lives, innovators in the developing world kick into a different gear. With little funding or resources, it's innovation in this 'long tail' that is most interesting – a place where people innovate out of necessity, not luxury, and as a matter of survival or ethics, not profit or markets. Health is a classic example of these drivers at work.
Six out of the 10 chapters in my recent book, "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator", cover health. The issues these innovators address include data collection, genetic disorders, communications between community health workers, patents, access to medicines, and solar energy as a lighting solution for maternity wards. The range of examples shows how broad and complex an issue health is, as well as the sheer scale of the need for its improvement across much of the developing world.
Many others are better placed to comment on whether entrepreneurs in the West are losing the will to innovate. Whatever the outcome of that debate, thankfully this isn't the case in the places that matter – the places where far too many people still die from perfectly treatable diseases, or fail to reach their potential because of a lack of access to the most basic of education.
To paraphrase former Liverpool football manager, Bill Shankly, in the developing world innovation isn't just a matter of life or death. It's more
important than that.
May 6, 2014 1 Comment
Scaling the charts
Great to see "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" hitting the top spot in Amazon's best selling 'Development Studies' books chart (24th February 2014).
February 24, 2014 1 Comment
Social innovation: Celebrating the unpolished
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous, and it did not get into print until, fifty years later, publishers would publish anything that had my name on it"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Late last year The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator hit the shelves. It was my first taste of publishing, and if I'm honest it really started off as something of an experiment. It wasn't until Archbishop Desmond Tutu agreed to get involved, the Curry Stone Foundation provided much-needed financial support, and my publisher pushed me to take it up a level, did I begin to let it take over my life. And for about three months that's precisely what it did.
For most of us, publishing our first book is the epitome of thinking on our feet. Everything was new, and I had to take on every role imaginable. Publishing brings with it all the challenges of bigger, bolder projects – funding, timing, collaboration, design, messaging and outreach – all in one neat little package. Scale, for a change, is an easy one – it's simply how many books you sell. If you're keen for a taste of what life as an entrepreneur is like, publish a book.
Since its release, The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator has bounced around the Amazon charts, peaking on one occasion at the #1 spot in the "Development Studies" category. Bookshops around the UK began to stock it, including Waterstones. For a while it was also on the coveted "Best new releases" shelf in my local Heffers store. Nothing beats walking into a bookshop and seeing your own book sandwiched between the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin.
Getting the book out there is one thing. A big thing, in fact. But then comes the public reaction. While some authors aren't too bothered, it was important to me. The general public were among my key audience, as were students and colleges/universities. The book, after all, seeks to democratise social innovation. So it was hugely gratifying to find this review posted on Amazon one morning:
Stories for every college campus
Ken Banks has collected a volume of stories here that need to be told on every college campus. College campuses are at this moment unique seedbeds of opportunity. Populated with "Millennial Searchers" who, in increasing numbers, tell us they define life success in terms of meaning, purpose, and making a difference, and shaped by the larger movements of social entrepreneurship and sustainability, college curricula have begun shifting towards educating students to become agents for change.
What our change agents need above all right now is not more information, but stories – stories that the move them from paralysis and despair in the face of social disintegration and ecological loss to actions shaped by courage, humor, and hope. These stories do this. And because they inject so much of the raw, the uncertain, and the unformed portion of reality into their tales they are stories on which students will clamber for in the face of the challenges of their generation.
These stories speak eloquently about power – the power of connections, the power in confronting power structures for the sake of the marginal, the power of serendipity, the power of the human spirit to overcome immense challenges and work towards transformation and justice. In doing so, they function as a calling to that part of ourselves that will recreate and restore human and natural communities, that bears witness to our capacity for both good and ill, and that remembers the full range of ingenuity and wisdom we possess individually and as a species.
Wendy Petersen Boring, co-editor, "Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences"
The book was also written in such a way to avoid 'sell-by date syndrome'. The stories of the ten innovators, and their solutions, will never age, and neither will their advice. And this was important, because I knew the book was unlikely to set the world on fire when it launched, and that it would most likely slowly find its way into colleges and universities where it could be that book of "the raw, the uncertain, and the unformed portion of reality" that younger people seek. Santa Clara University in the USA, and Goldsmiths College in London, are among a growing number seeing this value and adopting the book. It's going to take time, but it's happening.
Another thing I've learnt is to not listen to experts. Except perhaps, when they tell you not to do something – then you'll know that you should. During a conversation with a US book agent late last year, I was told by the expert he consulted – 'someone who knew about these things' – that:
I'd want to work with him to substantially transform the book from a set of stories into something more analytical and practical in terms of really going about starting one of these organisations, and that would take some real time. But even then I'm not confident about the book because there have been many published already that tell stories as good as those he's got, as well as some that are a good deal more substantial in terms of the hands-on advice
It's something of a revelation to me that the book I published is the polar opposite of the book I was told I should publish. If I had sought advice earlier, and taken it, my book would have been no different to the hundreds of others on the shelves. It would have focused on theory, cold analysis, expert opinion, five year plans, process, how to measure stuff and the odd third party case study. I'd never publish a book like that, not only because it's not how I work, but also because I don't think it in any way advances the cause. Sometimes self-publishing has its benefits – you can do anything you want, however you want. Kevin Starr nailed it when he shared his thoughts on the book recently:
These real – occasionally raw – stories do more to capture the life of the committed social entrepreneur than anything else I've read. Inspiring, yes, but even better, it works as a real world case-based manual for how to create change for the better
The book tries to buck the trend of 'social innovation as a discipline', in other words as something you need to study or learn before you can do anything. Its purpose is to create belief in talented young people with a vision to do good that meaningful change is possible, even without skills and resources. It's not about who's smartest – it's about who cares the most, and who's willing to go all the way to make that change happen.
Nor is it just a detailed analysis or unpicking of the 'market opportunity or problem', either, that students need – that perhaps comes later. Instead, what much of the book tries to give them is the inside line on what and how the entrepreneur was feeling when they encountered a life-changing problem. How it made them feel at a deeper level, and in turn how that passion and commitment drove them to dedicate much (if not all) of their time to solving it, and how it got them through huge obstacles and barriers. There are plenty of books that don't do this, that don't give the raw, unedited, deeply personal accounts of how these people and projects got started. Social innovators are rarely the hero figures we make them out to be, and people need to be able to resonate with their stories at every level.
And resonating is what they seem to be doing. From the emails and tweets I've received over the past three months, many people have found themselves deeply moved by some of the stories. Some have even cried on trains. Five year plans rarely do that.
Further details, including a list of endorsements and chapter contributions, and how to buy, are available from the official book website. You can also download a sample PDF which includes the cover, full foreword, introduction and endorsements, and the first two pages of each chapter, here.
February 21, 2014 No Comments
Thinking the future with shift 2020
I'm excited to announce my contribution to a new book project - shift 2020: How Technology Will Impact Our Future. It's a self-published book curated by Rudy De Waele which includes foresights on how technology will impact our future from some of the world's leading experts.
The idea of shift 2020 is based on Mobile Trends 2020, another collaborative project Rudy launched early 2010. It's one of the highest viewed decks on Slideshare (in the Top 50 of All Time in Technology with +320k views). Reviewing the document a couple of weeks ago Rudy realised that many of the predictions were becoming dated, and asked the original contributors for an update on their original predictions and for new foresights for the year 2020.
Rudy broadened the scope of the new book and asked new contributors to give their vision and foresights on a number of additional topics, including 3D Printing, AI, Apps, Biotech, Cloud, Connected Living, Crowdfunding, Data, Education, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise, GreenTech, Health, Hyperconnectivity, Maker Movement, Media, Retail, Robotics, Sensors, Smart Cities, Social Media, Society, Surveillance, Transport and Wearables.
shift 2020 is designed by Louise Campbell, an award winning UX and design technology professional with years of experience working with luxury fashion e-commerce brands, designing first-class, multi-platform, digital shopping experiences.
A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to cover costs for the design, editing, website and promotion of the book (which will be printed by blurb.com). It includes 80 pages of original content, featuring most of the original Mobile Trends 2020 contributors in addition to some 40 new contributions from around the world – prominent futurists, trend-predictors and industry leaders. There are also opportunities for companies to personalise the cover of the book with their name and logo.
shift 2020 includes quotes, paragraphs and essays from confirmed contributors, such as:
Neelie Kroes (VP of the European Commission), Douglas Rushkoff, Salim Ismael (Singularity University), Loic Le Meur (LeWeb), Shannon Spanhake (Innovation Officer San Francisco), Adeo Ressi (The Founder Institute), Boris Veldhuijzen (The Next Web), Saul Klein (Index Ventures), Aubrey de Grey, Sunny Bates (Kickstarter / Jawbone), Carlos Domingo (Telefonica Digital), David Rowan (Wired Magazine), Laurent Haug (Lift), Martin Recke (next), Will Page (Spotify), Scott Jenson (Google), Gerd Leonhard (The Futures Agency), Yuri Van Geest, Russell Buckley, Russ McGuire (Sprint), Kwame Ferreira (Kwamecorp), Delia Dumitrescu (Trendwatching.com), Georgie Benardete (Shopbeam), Hans-Holger Albrecht (Millicom), Tariq Krim (JoliCloud), Dr. James Canton, Andrew Hessel (Autodesk), Christian Lindholm (Korulab), Eze Vidra (Google Campus), Harald Neidhardt (MLOVE), Raina Kumra (Juggernaut). Robin Wauters (Tech.eu), Nicolas Nova, Gianfranco Chicco, Shaherose Charania (Women 2.0), Ken Banks, Marc Davis (Microsoft), Felix Petersen, Kelly Goto, Erik Hersman (Savannah Fund), David Risher (Worldreader), Glen Hiemstra (Futurist.com), Jessica Colaço (iHub), Mark Kanji (Apptivation), Rohit Talwar (Fast Future), Priya Prakash (Changify), Andrew Berglund (Geometry Global), Alan Moore, Martin Duval (Bluenove), Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (Layar), Andrew Bud (mBlox/MEF), Andy Abramson, Fabien Girardin, C. Enrique Ortiz, Raj Singh (Tempo AI), Inma Martinez, Robert Rice, Ajit Jaokar, Jonathan MacDonald, Tony Fish, Dan Applequist, Redg Snodgrass (Wearable World), David Wood, Mark A.M. Kramer (razorfish Healthware) , John Kieti (m:lab), Aape Pohjavirta, Kosta Peric (Innotribe), Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Microsoft) , Michael Breidenbruecker (Reality Jockey), Tricia Wang, Louisa Heinrich (Superhuman), Mike North (UC Berkeley), Mac-Jordan D. Degadjor, Kate Darling, Simon White, Chris Luomanen (Thing Tank), Ariane Van De Ven (Telefonica), Ed Maklouf (Siine), and many others.
The eBook version will be delivered before Christmas and the printed books most likely in the new year. Check the shift2020 website for latest updates and additional information.
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Reluctant innovators are go!
It's been a busy few months as our new book – "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" – has been taking shape. We've been finalising chapter contributions, working on the introduction, sorting out cover and chapter designs, doing last minute copy-editing, building a new website, keeping Kickstarter supporters up-to-date, and pulling in book endorsements. We got 24 of those in the end, all glowing and hugely supportive. You'll find all of them on the inside cover of the book, or on the website (click here for a full PDF version).
All that said, everything has been delivered on time, with the new website set live on the eve of the book launch. And everything has been well worth the effort. The books look incredible.
"The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" is aimed at a general audience, although we're hoping it will particularly appeal to younger people interested in social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and schools, colleges and universities teaching the subject. It fills a much-needed gap in the market, one which is currently dominated by books which – often at no fault of their own – give the impression that meaningful change is only possible if you're an MBA, or a geek, or have money or influence, or a carefully laid out five-year master plan, or all five. Let's be honest – you don't need qualifications to change the world.
By highlighting the stories of ten ordinary yet remarkable individuals, and the impact their work is collectively having on hundreds of millions of people around the world, "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" shows us that anything is possible, planning isn't everything, and that anyone anywhere can change their world for the better.
To coincide with the book launch we've given a limited number of interviews, with articles going out via PopTech, National Geographic, TechPresident and the Unreasonable Group. Feel free to click on any of the images below to read them.
Finally, why not check out the book website, and if you like what you see feel free to share details with your own networks. We believe this book has an important story to tell, and would love you to help us tell it.
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Charting The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who come alive" – Howard Thurman (1899 – 1981)
When David Rowan, editor of Wired Magazine, invited me to write a short article for "Ideas Bank" last spring, it gave me a great opportunity to share something I'd been witnessing on an increasing scale since my days at Stanford University in 2007. The article had to be short – 600 words – and because of that I only invited a couple of friends to contribute their stories. But the seed of an idea was born, as was the concept of 'reluctant innovation'. It was that seed which, one year on, would turn into a book set for launch in a couple of months time.
You can read the original Wired piece that inspired it here.
The new book features the likes of Medic Mobile, WE CARE Solar, Ushahidi, PlanetRead and DataDyne, and comes with a Foreword from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" highlights the personal stories of ten social innovators from around the world – ten social innovators – ordinary people – who randomly stumbled across problems, injustices and wrongs and, armed with little more than determination and belief, decided not to turn their backs but to dedicate their lives to solving them.
Take Brij Kothari, for instance. Watching yet another Spanish movie in his friend's apartment to avoid writing up his doctoral dissertation, Brij makes a throwaway comment about subtitles, which plants the seed of an idea and spawns a literacy initiative that has had, in Bill Clinton's words, "a staggering impact on people's lives".
Worried about the political turmoil in Kenya, and concerned at the lack of information that is forthcoming from his adoptive country, Erik Hersman mobilises his own five-strong army to conceive, create and launch a web-based facility that revolutionises how breaking news is disseminated worldwide.
Parachuted into the middle of sub-Saharan Africa with a brief to collect public health data, and confronted with a laborious, environmentally wasteful paper-based system, paediatrician Joel Selanikio finds the perfect outlet for the skills he acquired as a Wall Street computer consultant.
Intending to ground himself in the realities of global health during his internship in rural Malawi, Josh Nesbit discovers that it is hard to sit on the sidelines and soon finds himself proposing a solution to overcome the difficulty of connecting patients, community health workers and hospitals.
After watching local doctors and midwives struggle to treat critically ill pregnant women in near-total darkness on a Nigerian maternity ward, where an untimely power cut can mean the difference between life and death, obstetrician Laura Stachel delivers a solar-based solution that enhances survival prospects.
Observing how well the autistic son of a close friend responds to the therapeutic effects of a Chinese massage technique that she has advocated using, Louisa Silva is convinced that the treatment has the potential to benefit thousands of others, but she needs to prove it.
Haunted by the memory of being separated from her older sister during a childhood spent in foster care, and horrified that other siblings are continuing to suffer the same fate, Lynn Price resolves to devise a way to bring such people back together.
An unexpected conversation over dinner leads Priti Radhakrishnan to build an innovative new organisation with a mission to fight for the rights of people denied access to life saving medicines.
Until a visit to the dermatologist turns her world upside down, Sharon Terry has never heard of pseudanthoma elasticum (PXE), but when she discovers that research into the disease afflicting her children is hidebound by scientific protocol, she sets about changing the system with characteristic zeal.
Encounters and conversations with leftover people occupying leftover spaces and using leftover materials, at home and abroad, led architecture professor Wes Janz to view them as urban pioneers, not victims, and teach him a valuable lesson: think small and listen to those at the sharp end.
The book is aimed at a general audience, although I'm hoping it will particularly appeal to younger people interested in social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and schools, colleges and universities teaching the subject. It fills what I believe is a much-needed gap in the market, one which is currently dominated by books which – often at no fault of their own – give the impression that meaningful change is only possible if you're an MBA, or a geek, or have money or influence, or a carefully laid out five-year master plan, or all five. Let's be honest – you don't need qualifications to change the world.
By highlighting the stories of ten ordinary yet remarkable individuals, and the impact their work is collectively having on hundreds of millions of people around the world, "Rise of the Reluctant Innovator" will show us that anything is possible, planning isn't everything, and that anyone anywhere can change their world for the better.
We have a holding page up at reluctantinnovation.com and you can follow us on Twitter @ReluctantsBook. The book, and new website, will launch on 20th November.
"If we can help anyone on their journey, then we should. Whether that be giving advice or a positive critique on an idea, helping raise awareness through blog posts, giving tips on fundraising, making introductions to other projects and people with the same interests, or offering to be a future soundboard as their ideas grow and develop. These are all things I didn't have when I started out, and using them productively now that I do is one of the biggest contributions I believe I can – and should – make to the future growth of our discipline. Our legacy shouldn't be measured in the projects or tools we create, but in the people we serve and inspire"
Enabling the Inspiration Generation, December 2009
September 11, 2013 1 Comment
m4d: The fun is over. Time to get tough?
I'm all for discussion and debate, and I've taken part in my fair share over the past eleven years. But I'm now beginning to wonder if, after all this time, everything we could have said has been said. The fact we're still talking about the same handful of challenges and issues implies that very little, if anything, has changed where it matters – on the ground. Have we really made so little progress?
I've been thinking about this for a while, but it wasn't until the recent Guardian Activate conference that the scale of the problem finally drove home.
It's worth mentioning that I wasn't at the event this year, but I did follow from a distance. To be honest, sometimes it's better to listen and reflect from the outside, and as my train hurtled towards London it became increasingly obvious that much of the early conversation followed a similar pattern to many of the other technology-for-good conferences I'd attended over the years.
If, about a decade ago, we'd listed all of the questions, unknowns, problems and challenges faced by the ICT4D community, it would probably have looked something like this:
- How do we replicate and scale?
- How do we measure impact?
- How do we stop the reinventing of wheels?
- How do we avoid being 'technology-lead'?
- How do we break out of our silos?
- What is our business/sustainability model?
- Is open source a help or a hindrance?
- How do we maximise the opportunity mobile brings?
If we made the same list today, it would probably look something like this:
- How do we replicate and scale?
- How do we measure impact?
- How do we stop the reinventing of wheels?
- How do we avoid being 'technology-lead'?
- How do we break out of our silos?
- What is our business/sustainability model?
- Is open source a help or a hindrance?
- How do we make sense of the countless pilots taking place?
The only difference is the last one. We've gone from not really knowing what to do with mobile phones to a position of everyone everywhere trying to solve something with them, whether or not they're the right tool for the job. It's still a problem, but arguably a more serious one.
These questions – and many others like them – might keep academics in work, but they're serious issues for practitioners, too. Project owners and tools developers are rarely clear on their positions on open source, or scale, or their interpretation of 'appropriate technology'. Among other things this leads to confusion and unnecessary competition (yes, the non-profit world is competitive). I attempted to put a stop to some of this in a post called "Our "social mobile" line in the sand" way back in May 2009, without success. I wonder if the time is right for someone to try again?
None of us surely want to sit in yet another conference, gathering or workshop and hear the same things over and over again, but that's often what we do. And more often than not we pay good money for the privilege. Messages I personally don't want to hear again include:
"We need to stop talking in silos"
"Projects need to build for scale from the outset"
"We need to stop reinventing wheels"
"We need more collaboration"
"We need to become sustainable"
"We need to embrace failure"
"Mobile technology has huge potential"
Can't the m4d community come together and fix some of this? Create a code of conduct, a directory of terms and meanings, a set of best practice? With the billions of dollars funding mobile projects the world over, can't we siphon a little off and create an overarching set of guidelines that projects and donors adhere to? Almost everything we see out there has been funded by someone, so if only the donors seriously tried to grapple with the problem – and got strict with what they funded – we'd almost certainly make serious progress.
Some of this stuff isn't difficult. Take the problem of silos. Most of the events where this comes up are silos themselves. How can someone stand up at a mobile health conference packed with only people who use mobile phones and only for health, and say we should stop talking in silos? How about a mobile health practitioner attending an agriculture conference, instead? Or one focussing on human rights? Don't tell me mobile health projects can't learn something from non-mobile agriculture? If, as we constantly hear, innovation and opportunity happen in unexpected places, we need to put ourselves in them a little more, as Tim Smit suggested at the Emerge Conference in 2010.
Perhaps as a sign of things to come, mentions of mPesa are increasingly banned at meetings I attend. If we have to use the same example of a successful mobile money project over and over again, doesn't that say something about the state of mobile money?
I was recently asked what progress I thought we'd made since I wrote "Technology's new chance to make a difference" for the Guardian in January 2012. In the areas of best practice, adopting more appropriate technology and mainstreaming ICT4D, sadly I had to admit very little. As I wrote three years earlier:
I spent the best part of my university years critiquing the efforts of those who went before me. Countless others have done the same. Looking to the future, how favourably will the students and academics of tomorrow reflect on our efforts? If the next thirty years aren't to read like the last then we need to re-think our approach, and re-think it now
The development sector is hardly awash with success. The m4d community have a great chance to buck the trend. The big question is, will we?
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This event was part of a national movement referred to as the Chicago Tea Party. The series of protests began in Seattle, Washington on February 16, 2009, later gaining momentum on Thursday, February 19, when Rick Santelli in an on-air segment on CNBC Business Newslive called for a "Chicago Tea Party." Santelli's remarks became known as the "Rant Heard 'Round the World."[1]
Organizers sprang up in many different quarters of the fiscally conservative movement online and include Top Conservatives on Twitter, Smart Girl Politics, Don't Go, Americans for Tax Reform, the Heartland Institute, American Spectator Magazine, the New American Tea Party and many others.[2]
According to news reports, approximately 30 people attended the Jacksonville event. Organizers, some from a group called Freedom Works, said this was not a partisan rally, just people opposed to wasteful spending. They said the turnout was small because the event was thrown together quickly. The rally ended with the symbolic pouring of tea into the St. Johns River. "That's about a useless as the guys who are throwing our money away," said Charles Pracher, one of the organizers.[3]


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Names and first names
Popularity of Sebastian
Origin of Sebastian
- Origin:
- (Greek.) From the Greek, reverend or majestical, the same as the Latin Augustus.
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We have five 2 1/2 month old girl pitbulls left.. Sold 4 so far. Looking for great homes must have a yard and be willing to spend time with the puppy.. Already have the first round of shots and dewormed twice.. Both mom and dad are on site.. All the pups have a great ...
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There aren't a lot of ways to leave Bukom. A poor village in Ghana, its main industry is fishing, with a paltry annual salary of $300. So its young people are fighting their way out -- literally. Thanks to tenacious coaches who turn rough street fighters into money-churning professional boxers, the village has produced several champions, and is looking for its next big winner. Twenty-two year-old George is excited to box overseas for the first time, but has girlfriend troubles back home. Known as the first lady of boxing, Yarkor is using the memory of her cheating ex-boyfriend to fuel her fire, but is struggling to win her first big fight. Having already achieved international success, Joshua is training for the world featherweight title, with the help of dodgy manager Vinnie Scolpino. A spirited look at Ghana through the eyes of those fighting for their dreams. [56 minutes]
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El General (#710)
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... in the Warbirds area. The sun was up, the air comfortable, and the food was, well, airport concessionaire food. What I wouldn't have given for a good fireman's pancake breakfast.
After breakfast, Alex and I headed out to explore for a few hours. Alex, Larry and I stopped to admire the amazing paint job that a gentleman from Oregon had done on his RV-8, featuring angels, scantily-clad women, and Navy pilots (isn't that they way it always is?). The ...
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Americans' privacy worries, DHS: it's not 2003 anymore, spies in the sky [Government IT News]
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Chinese gov fears Instagram, Europe vs. Google [Government IT News]
The Chinese government is cracking down on Instagram, fearing dissidents and food porn. Europe is once again telling Google how it feels, and the FBI is releasing software. Plus more gov news 'round the globe.
Singapore reiterates call for industry collaboration in security
Singapore government again underscores the need for private and public sectors, as well as researchers to boost the country's cyber ecosystem and urges better cooperation to combat cybersecurity threats.
Apple and... PATRIOT Act, China, security and privacy [Government IT Week]
Not only has it been a big week for Apple products, it's been a big week for Apple privacy and government news. On one hand, Apple is promising to protect your privacy, on the other, the "warrant canary" has sung and Apple may be giving into PATRIOT Act demands. There's also more gov news the world over.
ASEAN spectrum crush hampers broadband rush: Report
The slow pace of mobile network spectrum allocation in many south-east Asian countries is leading to a delay in broadband implementation in the region, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Thailand's online retail market stalls at 1 percent
Online retail accounts for just 1 percent of the total market and is expected to remain through to 2018 amid tough competition from physical stores and delays in infrastructure rollout to boost broadband connectivity.
Microsoft and Yahoo spar with U.S. government [Government IT Week]
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Chinese regulator challenges Qualcomm: 'We should make money together'
Amidst an investigation into the US firm's business practices, the top Chinese regulator says that the best way to move forward would be for the company and local firms to "make money together."
White House revamps tech management, Hillary's not a cloud expert, and more bank hacks [Government IT Week]
It's time once again to go around the world and see what's happening in government IT. Here's a Labor Day shoutout to all our American readers.
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Julian Assange (remember him from WikiLeaks?) wants out of the Ecuador embassy and no one cares. It looks like IBM's hardware sale to Lenovo is going through. Plus lots more worldwide government IT news.
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Country's longest serving head of state, Mahathir Mohamad, says he regrets promising not to censor the web and accuses the internet as playing a major role in undermining public morality.
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Hooksett school board workshop cancelled after two members leave
Friction among Hooksett school officials has increased over the past several months and the board has been unable to move forward with a slate of issues including scheduling a community meeting to discuss the town's high school contract with Manchester and filling the empty seat on the board.
After Pearl and Lyscars left, Korkosz, who apparently knew ahead of time what to expect, said she was advised by the board's attorney to wait until 5 p.m. and then cancel the meeting due to the lack of a quorum. Korkosz began chatting with school board member Cheryl Akstin and Superintendent Charles Littlefield as they waited for the clock to tick down.
O'Hara asked the Korkosz and Akstin if they had any plans or ideas on how to solve the board's problems.
O'Hara, who is one of four candidates vying for the vacant school board seat, said Hooksett's school schools and students are facing some significant challenges.
"We are getting children coming out of the eighth grade who are phenomenal," said O'Hara. "Why don't we work to make their next step phenomenal?"
"Everyone has the same goals," she said. "Everyone cares about our children. You have to forget about what happened in the past and focus on the children."
Littlefield said it would take some work to mend the fractured board.
"It's difficult to do the public's business in public," he said adding that it would require time, trust and a willingness on the part of all board members to resolve their problems and move forward.
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Rapidly evaporating liquid that super-chills isolated areas. Used as a troubleshooting aid for intermittently faulting capacitors, resistors, semiconductors, and other defective components. It also increases visibility of cold solder joints, cracks in printed circ...
58-17215 - DVD Recorder /VCR Combo with 1080P HDMI Output
Transfer all of your favorite VHS family movies and preserve them on a DVD. With the 1080p Up-conversion, you will experience a 1080p HD-picture quality with an HDMI cable and since this is a combo unit, you will even save space! So clean-up all those video tapes,...
AAP72909216 - Basket Assembly,door
BASKET ASSEMBLY,DOOR Basket Assembly,Door
28-8542 - AC Cord Adaptor with Rotating Plug
Converts your standard straight AC plug into a right-angled AC plug Enables office equipment, furniture, audio/video accessories and other AC powered devices to be positioned within 1/2" from the wall Rotating plug allows cord to be routed in any direction Len...
MCM Cat 57, Page 975
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You can only look at anime episodes and stuff by going to that anime. The actual detailed list thing'll be back...later. xD
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