Showing posts with label Humanitarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanitarian. Show all posts

Organic Transistors

Researchers have claimed to create organic transistors that mimic brain synapse functionality. It will be interesting to see what developments the next generation in human-machine interaction technology will bring.

Hans Rosling - Health Expert & Datacaster

Data is fascinating!

Well, at least when Hans Rosling presents it. Dr. Rosling is a professor of global health and has worked around the world to fight hunger, HIV and other problems which plague developing nations. When he speaks, he presents data in a visual, creative way that engages the viewer in a way we're not used to. He is asking the world to serve up data in a way that would allow us all to build queries and present them like this.

Here is his talk at Ted and here is a web site with many more of his presentations. Are there uses for this type of data visualization in your enterprise?

CrisisCamp Haiti

CrisisCamp is looking for help from technologists in humanitarian efforts in Haiti.

Follow their Twitter feed here.

Wiki here.

Facebook page here.

[Joel: Also, this is a link to a Google wave which links to the Haiti Help waves.]