Well this months meetup was an interesting experiment for sure. Thanks to all of you who came out to play. The talk was not as well thought or precise as many of the Longnow.org talks. It may have been lost in translation, however I actually think the speaker was just being a generalist and conversationalist. [...]
Join Now http://tweetchat.com/room/tsdigs Tomorrow at 1PM Honolulu time (midnight universal time) join us as we finish up the Global Tweetchat on digital storytelling as part of the Tech Soup Digital Story Telling Challenge. Let’s talk about the ethics of story telling, especially when your person or subject may not be online or able to speak for [...]
Press Release – February 2013 New York, New York Apps to Empower is a global, Android app competition challenging app developers to create apps that empower young women in leadership & mentorship, jobs & entrepreneurship, education and conflict resolution. Winning entrants in each of the four categories will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to [...]
Launching this month! Deadline April 30, 2013. We are delighted to serve as an outreach partner for the Global Apps to Empower competition. This contest is asking you, no matter where you are in the world to enter your android app that empowers women in the developing world in the areas of: leadership & mentorship; jobs &entrepreneurship; education; [...]
With more data sets and the launch of Data.Honolulu.Gov, Data.Hawaii.gov, the City & County of Honolulu and Hawaii Open Data are kicking off a code contest called Hon*Celerator that brings together Hawaii’s best coders, designers, app developers and entrepreneurs to create more ways to engage with government. APP IDEA? https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hon-star-celerator ATTEND? http://honcelerator.eventbrite.com/
From Series on Long Term Thinking at the Long Now Foundation Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman “Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment” There is at least as much underneath Paris as there is above ground. The secretive members of the Paris Urban eXperiment, known internally as “The UX”, have spent the last 30 years [...]
The competition was stiff and the judges deliberated for quite some time before deciding on winners in the Code for Change 2012 challenge. The audience chose popular choice, which went to: Popular Choice Bookmark’d App Judges chose the following: Promise Prize: Floating Pin Change Prize: Vote Scope Grand Prize: CERT Mobile Congratulations to all the teams who [...]
Could not resist. If you know what a deer crossing sign is, you should listen to this.
Since the September 13 meetup, we’ve had quite a lot of action around the group. As it turns out our meetings have inspired Lanakila to take a deeper look at their recruitment process. Hooray! And in addition we’ve got a some artwork to feed the creativity on the Facebook campaign. In a week and a [...]
This just in: Zurb.com to promote Zurb Notable App has come to the table to sponsor a design audit for the grand prize winners at Code for Change. From sketches to fully coded pages, Notable lets teams give feedback faster at every step of the design process. Notable allows you to easily share your feedback with only the people [...]
