Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina
- Jugaad: mobile phone innovation from Santosh Ostwal | @TheEconomist – Interesting case of grassroots innovation CLIPS: "SANTOSH OSTWAL, husband and father of two, lost his apartment in 2001 after quitting his job in Pune to solve an engineering problem he’d been thinking about for twenty years. Today his solution – a mobile-phone adaptation that triggers irrigation pumps remotely – is saving water in India and helping more than 10,000 farmers avoid several taxing, dangerous long walks a day. I talked to Mr Santosh for a podcast earlier this year, but it’s worth digging back into the transcript now to help explain the Indian concept of jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity that employs only the tools at hand." "One reason why he cracked this problem, says Mr Ostwal, is that his own family farms, and he’s spent more than a decade observing farmers and their routines. Perhaps the urban engineers didn’t see this problem because they didn’t face it themselves in their walks of life….
- Supernova Forum 2010: Privacy & Publicness with @jeffjarvis & @zephoria (via @kwerb) – CLIP: At Supernova Forum 2010, danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) discuss privacy and publicness in a connected world.
- Art of noise: Mobile social media and attention | Berkman Center – CLIPS: "How do we manage the increasing demands of network connectivity, from mobiles, email, and social media? Debates are raging about reduced attention spans and information overload – with particular focus on young people being at risk. Sharing early findings from a large, three-year study of mobile media use in Australia, this talk will bring an historical context to the idea of noise, and give a snapshot of how 'mobile social spheres' are developing – particularly for 18-30 year olds.
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