Set up by local Amadu Mohammad, the non-profit organization supports 250 girls between the age of six and 18, priming them for formal education through extracurricular classes in reading, math, poetry and information technology. Its goal is to break through social barriers and provide Nima with a generation of female role models, and so the… Read more »
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Webscape: A toolkit for start-ups
From sites which offer tips from successful entrepreneurs and business people to a daily email of key news events, this video rounds up some of the best tools for those starting a business. Source: BBC News Date: January 30, 2015 Link (to be pasted into browser): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hv80g Discussion 1) Why do you think these entrepreneurs… Read more »
Women of Wikipedia edit planned
Discussion: The Wikipedia entries for women in technology and engineering are going to be updated as a part of an “edit-a-thon” held at the Royal Society next month. All of the profiles chosen were of historical figures. The day was organized to celebrate the legacy of Ada Lovelace, who worked with Charles Babbage on an… Read more »
Movement aims to decentralize Internet
Discussion: Issace Wilder, founder of the Free Network Foundation, is aiming to decentralize the internet so that it cannot be controlled and monitored by corporate or governmental regulating bodies. His non-profit foundation is trying to prevent the actual physical internet from being consolidated and controlled by a few corporate transit networks, while also trying to publicize… Read more »
Seti Live website to crowdsource alien life
Seti Live website to crowdsource alien life Discussion: Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is going to stream radio frequencies on the internet from the Allen Telescope Array with the hope that members of the public will help to sift through the signals in seach of unusual activity. The radio frequencies that Seti will stream… Read more »
HP donates WebOS system code to open source developers
Discussion: HP announced that it is donating WebOS, its smartphone/tablet operating system, to open source developers. HP said that they would continue to provide support for WebOS. What it sounds like, from an observer’s point of view, is that HP could not get a buyer to purchase WebOS for their asking price, so they decided to “donate”… Read more »
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
Discussion: Players of an online game, Foldit, have channeled their virtual talent into actual talent by unfolding an enzyme that had puzzled scientists for over a decade. The structure of the specific enzyme that gamers recently unfolded is found in AIDS-like viruses. Now that the puzzle of the AIDS enzyme is solved, scientists can devise better and… Read more »
Gamification time: What if everything were just a game?
Discussion: In Finland, Microtask has designed a game called Digitalkoot (digital volunteers) that combines gamification (the use of game-play mechanics for practical applications) and crowdsourcing (applying a competitive game-like setting to any non-game business model to create loyalty, increase value of the client or generate new ideas) in order to convert old information into e-archives…. Read more »
Starting a revolution with technology
Discussion: In early 2011 civil unrest in Egypt and the middle east let to political demonstrations that the Egyptian government believed threatening enough to the well being of the country that they shut down the World Wide Web in hopes of diminishing lines of communication between groups of protesters. OpenMesh, an ad hoc wireless mesh network of individual… Read more »
Social media and the security risks they pose for business
Discussion: As more and more businesses see the value in social media applications like Twitter and Facebook, they face a big dilemma: allow these applications to go through their current network without the proper security infrastructure or block them altogether. Nir Zuk, co-founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, says the next big thing in… Read more »
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