Paul Needham: Owning Electricity
Paul Needham’s organisation, Simpa Networks, makes solar energy available to the poor. By using a pay-as-you-go pricing structure modeled after mobile phone cards, Simpa gives its customers ownership of the electricity. Once the initial cost of the equipment is paid off, the device belongs to the customer and their electricity is free.
Kalev H.Leetaru: Culturomics 2.0
Kalev H. Leetaru is a scientist. His award-winning work centres on the application of high performance computing to grand challenge problems using news and open sources intelligence. He has been programming computers since childhood and started his first web company in the 8th Grade. Overtime, Kalev’s numerous projects have become increasingly inter-disciplinary and global.
Monica Guzman: Speak or Be Spoken For, Working Your ‘Me’ Muscle
Monica Guzman is a digital life Columnist at GeekWire and a Community Strategist in media and startups. She explains our ‘Me’ Muscle and how to make yourself stand out in the dense ocean of the web, urging us to prove our part in the generation of BE and DO.
Peter Komendowski: Media Literacy, Mind Versus Mindful
Peter Komendowski is a consultant specialising in a unique combination of business development and social activism, targeted at the evolving complexity of human interactions, the effects of the media, and identifying environmental strategies for investing in the ‘health’ of human potential.
Richard Reynolds: With Flowers instead of Guns We Fight
When Richard Reynolds planted a flower on an unused small plot in the middle of night for the first time in his life, he never expected to be on the forefront of the ‘Guerilla Gardening’ Movement. He had never thought of fighting against the forces that didn’t care about public spaces or cast a nonchalant […]
