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One billion slum dwellers - The Big Picture - Boston.com
"One billion people worldwide live in slums, a number that will likely double by 2030. The characteristics of slum life vary greatly between geographic regions, but they are generally inhabited by the very poor or socially disadvantaged. Slum buildings can be simple shacks or permanent and well-maintained structures but lack clean water, electricity, sanitation and other basic services. In this post, I've included images from several slums including Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, the second largest slum in Africa (and the third largest in the world); New Building slum in central Malabo, Equatorial Guinea; Pinheirinho slum - where residents recently resisted police efforts to forcibly evict them; and slum dwellers from Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi, India. India has about 93 million slum dwellers and as much as 50% of New Delhi's population is thought to live in slums, 60% of Mumbai."
dharavi  pakistan  islamabad  haiti  port-au-prince  phnompenh  cambodia  informalcity  urbanism  urban  urbanization  cities  bigpicture  photography  newdelhi  pinheirinho  africa  malabo  equatorialguinea  brasil  sãopaulo  nairobi  kibera  mumbai  kolkata  via:lukeneff  kenya  india  slums  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Bruce Sterling - Symposium Playful Post Digital Culture (STRP 2011). on Vimeo
music  renaissance  science  culture  post-digital  appleboutiqueworld  cyberwarworld  piracy  softpower  pepperspray  drones  robots  china  brasil  india  bollywoodcarnavalworld  painting  slumdogmillionaire  dictatorchic  streetart  carart  favelachic  narco  sweatshopworld  hightech  lowtech  highart  lowart  speculative  futurism  futures  technology  art  techart  2011  brucesterling  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift | Video on TED.com
"Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk at TEDxBrussels he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming."
government  interconnectivity  interconnectedness  communities  networks  brasil  india  china  world  multipolar  us  un  turbulence  global  governance  society  unregulatedspace  terrorism  crime  regulation  corporations  history  2011  politics  power  paddyashton 
january 2012 by robertogreco
Shikshantar - The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
"The ‘Resisting the Culture of Schooling Series’ is dedicated to highlighting various ways in which people are creatively struggling against dehumanizing and exploitative Education and Development/Globalization. It will feature essays, stories, poems, dramas, art, music, etc. in a number of languages (Mewari, Hindi, English). To learn more about or to contribute to the series, please contact us."
india  unlearning  via:steelemaley  learning  schooling  society  shikshantar  deschooling  unschooling  education  pedagogy  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Groupshot
"Informality is the condition of an unplanned system and arises spontaneously. While informal systems can be inefficient, they also provide a range of emergent and positive services.

Groupshot designs new processes and tools that engage the positive qualities of informality. The result is an enhancement of the capabilities of informal systems, and the optimal connection between the best of the informal and the benefits of the formal."
design  informality  informalsystems  nuvustudio  ibo  frontlinessms  instituteforgloballeadership  lcproject  glvo  india  informal  afghanistan  southafrica  capetown  groupshot  scalability  developingworld  nairobi  kenya  haiti  port-au-prince  technology  projectideas  classideas  humanitariandesign  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Qualcomm and Sesame Workshop India Launch Project Using 3G Mobile Technology to Provide Quality, Early Learning Experiences for Underserved Migrant Children - MarketWatch
"Qualcomm and Sesame Workshop India Launch Project Using 3G Mobile Technology to Provide Quality, Early Learning Experiences for Underserved Migrant Children"
qualcomm  newdelhi  india  sandiego  mobilephones  mobile  phones  radiophone  radio  migrants  education  earlychildhood  learning  2011  galligallisimsim  gurgaonkiawaazsamudayik  wireless  wirelessreach  3g  preschool  cartoonnetwork  pogo  technology  literacy  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
URBZ | user generated cities
"…facilitates production & exchange of info, knowledge, ideas & practices towards better cities for all.<br />
We organize participatory workshops, designs adaptable structures & develop web tools for urban communities & practitioners.<br />
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User-generated Cities!<br />
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URBZ believes residents are experts in their neighborhoods. Their everyday experience of places where they live & work constitute essential knowledge for planning & urban development.<br />
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For policy-makers, urban planners, architects & real-estate developers, accessing this knowledge is best possible way to enhance quality & impact of their work. Understanding a locality from point of view of those who inhabit it improves the chances of success of a project at several levels:<br />
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identifies local stakes & playersopens multiple communication channelsgenerates new ideas & solutions<br />
provides deep assessment of ground-level situationimproves social impact & environmental sustainabilitylifts up image of project & increases support"
design  technology  culture  architecture  cities  urbz  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  india  mumbai  goa  nyc  santiago  geneva  switzerland  usergenerated  local  sustainability  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
airoots/eirut » Mandu, Mahua and Magic
"We are sometimes blamed for being idealists. We spoke to the Bhil girls and boys, shepharding goats on the hills, and told them that our belief that there is something valuable here is often called delusional. They laughed. They told us they are really quite happy to be here on the hills, as long as their connections to the forests are not tampered with. No one likes going to the city and being pulled into doing physical work for the construction industry, something they have to do for survival, especially during the summers.Their presence in the forests around is discouraged by the authorities on the grounds that they will denude them.<br />
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The forest policies in India remain anti-people and to our minds are at the heart of a faulty policy that creates forest-less cities and people-less forests."
airoots  mandu  india  forests  urban  urbanism  rural  contentment  colonialism  idealism  decolonization  2011  mahua  underground  policy  human  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
"The Authoritarian High-Modernist Recipe for Failure…

• Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city
• Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works
• Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations
• Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like
• Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality
• Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary
• Watch your rational Utopia fail horribly

Central to Scott’s thesis is the idea of legibility. He explains how he stumbled across the idea while researching efforts by nation states to settle or “sedentarize” nomads, pastoralists, gypsies and other peoples living non-mainstream lives…"
politics  history  philosophy  problemsolving  imperialism  colonialism  jamescscott  design  architecture  urbanplanning  urbanism  nomads  nomadism  gypsies  pastoralists  mainstream  radicals  radicalism  2011  venkateshrao  legibility  illegiblepeople  illegibles  stevenjohnson  patternmaking  patterns  patternrecognition  complexity  unschooling  deschooling  utopianthinking  india  high-modenism  lecorbusier  forests  brasilia  bauhaus  control  decolonization  power  nicholasdirks  rome  edwardgibbon  civilization  authoritarianism  authoritarianhigh-modernism  elephantpaths  desirelines  anarchism  organizations  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
prepone - Wiktionary
"1. (India) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time."<br />
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[Also listed here (worth mining): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English ]<br />
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[Related, also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_English and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish ]
prepone  words  india  english  indianenglish  language  definitions  time  meetings  scheduling  adelanto  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Wisdom and Salt Water on Vimeo
"The film that you are about to see is a video recording of a gathering of families and individuals that met in Deer Park, Bir, Himachal Pradesh in India in April 2011, to discuss and share there learning journeys.<br />
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This interaction is a session in which alternative ways to facilitate learning for children was discussed. Parents shared personal stories of how they were inspired or motivated to think of alternative learning environment other than schools, for their children and themselves.<br />
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Copyleft (L) - Learning Societies Conference 2011"
priyaravi  unschooling  deschooling  homeschool  education  lcproject  learning  parenting  children  india  via:monikahardy  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
My Summer at an Indian Call Center | Mother Jones
"Call-center employees gain their financial independence at the risk of an identity crisis. A BPO salary is contingent on worker's ability to de-Indianize: to adopt a Western name & accent &, to some extent, attitude. Aping Western culture has long been fashionable; in the call-center classroom, it's company policy. Agents know that their jobs only exist because of the low value the world market ascribes to Indian labor. The more they embrace the logic of global capitalism, the more they must confront the notion that they are worth less."

"In a sense, Arjuna is too westernized to be happy in India. He speaks with an American accent, listens to American rock music, & suffers from American-style malaise. In his more candid moments, he admits that life would have been easier if he had hewn to the traditional Indian path. "I spent my youth searching for the real me. Sometimes I feel that now I've destroyed anything that is the real me, that I am floating somewhere in between.""
culture  economics  work  india  outsourcing  callcenters  identity  thirdculture  independence  freedom  tradeoffs  unintendedconsequences  money  motivation  2011  tradition  westernization  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Where Have All the Girls Gone? - By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy
"what happens to women is only part of story. Demographically speaking, women matter less & less. By 2013, an estimated 1 in 10 men in China will lack a female counterpart. By late 2020s, that figure could jump to 1 in 5. There are many possible scenarios for how these men will cope w/out women…several of them involve rising rates of unrest. Already Columbia U economist Edlund & colleagues at Chinese U of HK have found link btwn large share of males in young adult population & an increase in crime in China. Doomsday analysts need look no further than America's history: Murder rates soared in male-dominated Wild West.

4 decades ago, Western advocacy of sex selection yielded tragic results. But if we continue to ignore that legacy & remain paralyzed by heated US abortion politics, we're compounding that mistake. Indian public health activist George, indeed, says waiting to act is no longer an option: If the world does "not see 10 years ahead to where we're headed, we're lost.""
2011  population  gender  asia  us  policy  birthrates  women  girls  china  india  sexselection  unintendedconsequences  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship : The New Yorker
"My reading was my mirror, & my material; I saw no other part of myself…<br />
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For though they had created me, & reared me, & lived w/ me day after day, I knew that I was a stranger to them, an American child…<br />
Even after I received the Pulitzer, my father reminded me that writing stories was not something to count on…I listen to him, & at the same time I have learned not to listen, to wander to the edge of the precipice & to leap. & so, though a writer’s job is to look and listen, in order to become a writer I had to be deaf & blind.<br />
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I see now that my father, for all his practicality, gravitated toward a precipice of his own, leaving his country and his family, stripping himself of the reassurance of belonging. In reaction, for much of my life, I wanted to belong to a place, either the one my parents came from or to America, spread out before us. When I became a writer my desk became home; there was no need for another…Born of my inability to belong, it is my refusal to let go."
writing  literature  narrative  identity  thirdculture  jhumpalahiri  risk  glvo  art  craft  residence  place  belonging  2011  libraries  books  home  life  reading  classideas  india  parenting  schools  memory  experience  childhood  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Think Again: Education - By Ben Wildavsky | Foreign Policy [""Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future."]
"American students' performance is only cause for outright panic if you buy into the assumption that scholastic achievement is a zero-sum competition between nations, an intellectual arms race in which other countries' gain is necessarily the United States' loss."<br />
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"If Americans' ahistorical sense of their global decline prompts educators to come up with innovative new ideas, that's all to the good. But don't expect any of them to bring the country back to its educational golden age -- there wasn't one."<br />
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"In this coming era of globalized education, there is little place for the Sputnik alarms of the Cold War, the Shanghai panic of today, and the inevitable sequels lurking on the horizon. The international education race worth winning is the one to develop the intellectual capacity the United States and everyone else needs to meet the formidable challenges of the 21st century -- and who gets there first won't matter as much as we once feared."
us  policy  education  china  india  competiveness  spacerace  sputnik  arneduncan  rttt  nclb  shanghai  pisa  anationatrisk  learning  schools  propaganda  fear  standardizedtesting  highereducation  highered  colleges  universities  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
In India, the Premji Foundation Tries to Improve Public Education - NYTimes.com
"But the classrooms of Nagla are a laboratory for an educational approach unusual for an Indian public school. Rather than being drilled and tested on reproducing passages from textbooks, students write their own stories. And they pursue independent projects — as when fifth-grade students recently interviewed organizers of religious festivals and then made written and oral presentations.<br />
That might seem commonplace in American or European schools. But such activities are revolutionary in India, where public school students have long been drilled on memorizing facts and regurgitating them in stressful year-end exams that many children fail.<br />
Nagla and 1,500 other schools in this Indian state, Uttarakhand, are part of a five-year-old project to improve Indian primary education…Education experts at his Azim Premji Foundation are helping to train new teachers and guide current teachers in overhauling the way students are taught and tested at government schools."
india  rote  rotelearning  education  change  reform  schools  schooling  teaching  learning  2011  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
California Bungalow - Wikipedia
"traces its origins to Indian province of Bengal, word itself derived from Hindi bangla or house in Bengali style. The native thatched roof huts were adapted by British, who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer retreats. Refined & popularized in California, many books list the first California house dubbed a bungalow as the one designed by the San Francisco architect A. Page Brown in the early 1890s. However, Brown's close friend, Joseph Worcester, designed a bungalow for himself & erected it atop a hill in Piedmont, across the bay from San Francisco, in 1877-78. The bungalow influenced Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk & other San Francisco architects & Jack London, who rented Worcester's house from 1902-03 called it a "bungalow w/ a capital 'B'".<br />
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The bungalow became popular because it met the needs of changing times in which the lower middle class were moving from apartments to private houses in great numbers. Bungalows were modest, inexpensive & low-profile."
architecture  suburbia  bungalows  history  india  bengal  losangeles  sandiego  california  housing  homes  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Gateshead Granny Cloud
"The brainchild of Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University. Mitra has recruited hundreds of grannies in Newcastle to go online to help children in India with their education, based on the grandmother method -- stand behind, admire, act fascinated and praise."
education  research  sugatamitra  holeinthewall  outdoctrination  teaching  learning  distancelearning  uk  india  grandmothers  digital  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
India's New Generation of Caste Busters - NYTimes.com
"And I had a sense, from this and earlier visits to Indian finishing schools, of a generation being trained rather than educated. They knew nothing about industry, art, history, literature, science."
india  education  culture  society  capitalism  training  learning  deschooling  unschooling  progressive  2011  art  history  policy  racetonowhere  science  literature  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Yong Zhao » “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech
"Obama also said in his speech:<br />
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"Remember-–for all the hits we’ve taken these last few years, for all the naysayers predicting our decline, America still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world. No workers—no workers are more productive than ours. No country has more successful companies, or grants more patents to inventors & entrepreneurs. We’re the home to the world’s best colleges & universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth."<br />
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So who has made America “the largest, most prosperous economy in the world?” Who are these most productive workers? Where did the people who created the successful companies come from? & who are these inventors that received the most patents in the world?<br />
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It has to be the same Americans who ranked bottom on the international tests… [STATS]…Apparently they have not driven the US into oblivion and ruined the country’s innovation record.
education  rttt  obama  2011  policy  schools  innovation  china  india  children  learning  creativity  economics  teaching  publicschools  yongzhao  us  science  stem  moreofthesame  moreisnotbetter  competition  competitiveness  curriculum  pisa  comparison  history  future  nclb  arneduncan  reform  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
How The Other Side Thinks « stone soup
"I was curious to see whether this correlation between educational values and leadership carries for other countries, and did a little impromptu research. I looked at the top 9 leaders of each country, and found their undergraduate major and/or graduate field. I started with the U.S., China, India, Singapore, and Germany. I would be interested in seeing others; however, I lack the language skill or Googling will to look them up.<br />
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I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions, but perhaps it should come as no surprise, given the results, that the Chinese government is less concerned about humanitarian issues than economic growth, infrastructure development, and technological advancement."
us  china  germany  india  singapore  policy  priorities  law  economics  government  leadership  leaders  humanities  humanrights  humanitarian  development  hujintao  barackobama  engineering  comparison  2011  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Russell Peters - Beating Your Kids
"HUMOR: Politically correct people. Please DON"T watch this. Final word on Asian education" — http://twitter.com/#!/vwadhwa/status/26114051662680064
parenting  humor  comedy  india  immigration  immigrant  us  russellpeters  vivekwadhwa  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead - BusinessWeek [Also at: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2011/tc20110112_006501.htm]
"The Journal article was simply bizarre, yet it is true that education in China and India is very challenging and fiercely competitive. Children are brought up to believe that education is everything, that it will make the difference between success and starvation. So from their early years they work long and hard. Most of their childhood is spent memorizing books on advanced subjects."<br />
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"The independence and social skills American children develop give them a huge advantage when they join the workforce. They learn to experiment, challenge norms, and take risks. They can think for themselves, and they can innovate. This is why America remains the world leader in innovation; why Chinese and Indians invest their life savings to send their children to expensive U.S. schools when they can. India and China are changing, and as the next generations of students become like American ones, they too are beginning to innovate. So far, their education systems have held them back."
vivekwadhwa  education  schools  policy  innovation  china  india  asia  criticalthinking  risktaking  tcsnmy  advantage  politics  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Reflections on the INK Conference in Lavasa - Joi Ito's Web
"Whenever I leave India, I always end up comparing it in my mind to China and thinking about "the cost of democracy". India is messy, has slums, has it's share of corruption, but it is democratic and democracy is messy and inefficient. On the other hand, China is extremely efficient and well organized at one level, but pays for this in a lack of political freedoms. It's not fair to compare the two countries too directly, but the contrast in their approaches as well as the potential of both countries is something that I look forward to watching as the scenarios play out."
joiito  india  china  democracy  messiness  freedom  complexity  efficiency  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Why some young US workers now seek fortunes in India - CSMonitor.com
""When I first moved to India I thought, 'Gosh, here I am surrounded by people who are doing algebra in elementary school.... [With] all these smart people, how can I even compete?' " says Sigworth, a 20-something from Connecticut who is cofounder and CEO of PharmaSecure in New Delhi.<br />
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What he discovered, he says, is that American education and American cultural heritage "prepare us so well for working in the world, for being pioneers.""
india  american-diaspora  education  us  entrepreneurship  jobs  work  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Marketplace Photo Gallery: Do middle managers really matter?
"Stanford University Professor Nicholas Bloom talks with Kai Ryssdal about a study he conducted looking at the role of middle managers and whether they matter, and how he conducted experiments in Indian factories to find out."
management  administration  leadership  economics  business  middlemanagement  india  factories  nicholasbloom  manufacturing  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
It’s Morning in India - NYTimes.com
"It looks, said Srivastava, as if “what is happening in America is a loss of self-confidence. We don’t want America to lose self-confidence. Who else is there to take over America’s moral leadership? American’s leadership was never because you had more arms. It was because of ideas, imagination, and meritocracy.” If America turns away from its core values, he added, “there is nobody else to take that leadership. Do we want China as the world’s moral leader? No. We desperately want America to succeed.”"
thomasfriedman  india  us  culture  confidence  capitalism  socialism  imagination  meritocracy  global  china  values  world  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com
"Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."
holeinthewall  outdoctrination  sugatamitra  unschooling  deschooling  education  teaching  learning  engagement  ted  technology  computers  india  africa  italy  autodidacts  self-directedlearning  motivation  intrinsicmotivation  interestdriven  interests  collaboration  internet  hyderabad  curiosity  speech  english  accents  speech2text  arthurcclarke  computing  cambodia  southafrica  games  play  gaming  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Learning from the Extremes - Charlie Leadbeater & Annika Wong [.pdf] [also referenced: http://www.core77.com/blog/education/_learning_from_the_extremes_-_charlie_leadbeater_annika_wong_15823.asp]
"Leadbeater makes further point about increasing relative ignorance that is highly significant for teaching & learning. It is that we can & must put ignorance to work–to make it useful–to provide opportunities for ourselves & others to live innovative & creative lives. “What holds people back from taking risks, is often as not…their knowledge, not their ignorancel.” Useful ignorance becomes a space of pedagogical possibility rather than base that needs to be covered. ‘Not knowing’ needs to be put to work w/out shame or bluster…Our highest educational achievers may well be aligned w/ teachers in knowing what to do if & when they have script. But…this sort of certain & tidy knowing is out of alignment w/ script-less & fluid social world. Out best learners will be those who can make ‘not knowing’ useful, do not need blueprint, template, map, to make new kind of sense. This is one new disposition that academics as teachers need to acquire fast–disposition to be usefully ignorant."
charlesleadbeater  teaching  ignorance  usefulignorance  learning  lcproject  tcsnmy  schools  risk  risktaking  pedagogy  annikawong  knowledge  education  academics  unschooling  deschooling  gamechanging  disruption  informallearning  informal  olpc  sugatamitra  holeinthewall  outdoctrination  kenya  brasil  india  developingworld  development  technology  filetype:pdf  media:document  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Jugaad: Questions for Santosh Ostwal | The Economist
"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."
via:blackbeltjones  jugaad  santoshostwal  india  hacking  hardware  constraints  makedo  localsolutions  theadjacentpossible  engineering  chimericthinking  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism? | Co.Design
"I know almost all of my Gen Y students want to do [humanitarian design] because their value system is into doing good globally. Young designers in consultancies & corporations want to do it for same reason."

[response by Emily Pilloton: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1661885/are-humanitarian-designers-imperialists-project-h-responds ]
humanitarianism  ideo  imperialism  brucenussbaum  asia  africa  2010  community  criticism  culture  design  development  humanitarian  ethics  sustainability  colonialism  collaborative  innovation  projecth  politics  technology  olpc  emilypilloton  brasil  india  acumen  bias  business  tcsnmy  projecthdesign 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Shikshantar - The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
"Shikshantar is an applied research institute dedicated to catalyzing radical systemic transformation of education in order to facilitate Swaraj-development throughout India."
alternativeeducation  education  india  learning  deschooling  activism  development  dialogue  organizations  research  unschooling  lcproject  factoryschools  tcsnmy  transformation  gamechanging  ivanillich  johnholt  kenrobinson  johntaylorgatto  schools  schooling  schooliness  paulofreire 
august 2010 by robertogreco
The School LEAVERS
"A nine-year-old in Noida leaves her school to write a novel. A 19-year-old in Nashik takes a gap year before college to discover herself. Yet another is painting in Udaipur. In a land where ambitions can be carefully choreographed from playschool to postgraduation, a few students are shrugging their shoulders and becoming gappers"
dropouts  education  schooling  deschooling  unschooling  creativity  india  gapyear  alternative 
august 2010 by robertogreco
What Happened to “Hole-in-the-Wall”? « Papyrus News
"It turns out that the two Hole-in-the-Wall sites that she visited both stand in ruins, one closed down within a few months of its opening due to vandalism, the other surviving until it became inactive. According to the article, while the broader Hole-in-the-Wall project still exists, it has evolved from its earlier approach of eschewing relationship with community organizations, schools, and adult mentors, and has now “started to focus more on the building of ties with the school, particularly in regard to using the teachers or others in the local communities as mediators in learning.” This is a welcome change and reflects the important realization that mentorship and institutional support are important if children are to learn effectively with technology."

[References: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123429684/abstract ]

[Also points to this: http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/warschauer_m/docs/ddd.pdf ]
computers  education  india  learning  literacy  olpc  slums  technology  sugatamitra  holeinthewall  digitaldivide  access  unschooling  deschooling  research  self-directedlearning  self-directed  informal  curiosity  tcsnmy  unsupervised  sustainability  almora  hawalbagh  outdoctrination 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums | Video on TED.com
"Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become."
charlesleadbeater  demos  education  future  innovation  pedagogy  poverty  learning  ted  technology  slums  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  riodejaneiro  brasil  kibera  kenya  informal  informallearning  disruptive  lcproject  futureoflearning  finland  leapfrogging  compulsory  india  development  transformation  newdelhi  sugatamitra  holeinthewall  socialentrepreneurship  literacy  pull  push  engagement  belohorizonte  sãopaulo  mobile  phones  cities  urban  hightechhigh  outdoctrination 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Along The Grand Trunk Road: Coming Of Age In India And Pakistan : NPR
"An ancient road spans South Asia, connecting the present and the past in a dynamic -- and sometimes dangerous -- part of the world. NPR journalists travel the route and tell the stories of young people living there, who make up the majority of the populations in India and Pakistan."
pakistan  sms  world  npr  travel  grandtrunkroad  literacy  mobile  india  southasia  asia  history  culture 
may 2010 by robertogreco
a m l - want to look ahead? look around instead.
"when new high-tech & high-priced gizmos like kindle & its much hipper cousin ipad came out, the blogosphere was very excited. nevermind that hacker websites from russia to south america have been scanning & posting pdfs for consumption of rest of the world that does not have a library around the corner nor easy access to jstor et al. the ipad is not the revolution, digital text is. it is less important how you read it, than the possibility of being able to read it at all! ingenuity finds uses for technology other than those originally intended, & this often happens because of need. think of cell phones used as micro loan mechanisms in india. think of the development of the bus rapid transit system in curitiba, transforming the bus into a dedicated line system resulting in an affordable mass transportation system that has been replicated in several cities in south america. christopher hawtorne thinks we should look at medellin… he is, of course, a bit late, but hey, we’ll take it."
thestreetwillfindause  medellin  colombia  india  streetuse  technology  ipad  kindle  libraries  text  digitaltext  anamaríaleón  cities  suburbia  travel  jetset  sustainability  green  latinamerica  southamerica  jaimelerner  pdf  learning  information  hacks  hacking  microloans  rapidtransit  christopherhawthorne  architecture  urban  urbanism  planning  future  decline  invention  thefutureishere 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Teaching: Inspiring British children, Slumdog style: A radical new teaching method that has been pioneered in India, Africa and Latin America is catching on in Britain, says Max Davidson. - Telegraph
"As his academic standing rocketed, Mitra conducted similar experiments in other parts of the world, from Africa to Latin America. He is now working with children at three schools in the north-east of England, including St Aidan's C of E primary in Gateshead, where nine-year-old children are to be found researching school topics on computers, unaided by teachers. The result is what Mitra calls a Self-Organised Learning Environment, or SOLE." ... "If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it – an elderly grandmother, for instance."
sugatamitra  holeinthewall  autodidacts  learning  education  india  africa  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  independence  sole  self-organizedlearningenvironment  collaboration  cooperation  lcproject  outdoctrination  self-organisedlearningenvironment 
april 2010 by robertogreco
India Report, April 1958: Observatory: Design Observer
"Charles and Ray Eames, American industrial designers, visited India for three months at the invitation of the Government, with the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, to explore the problems of design and to make recommendations for a training program. The Eameses toured throughout India, making a careful study of the many centers of design, handicrafts and general manufacture. They talked with many individuals, official and non-official, in the field of small and large industry, in design and architecture, and in education. As a result of their study and discussions, the following report emerged."
eames  education  history  india  industrialdesign  designprocess  design 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com
"What if, globally speaking, the iPad is not the next big thing? What if the next big thing is small, cheap and not American?
mobilephones  africa  india  technology  innovation  internet  ipad  communication  phones  mobile  statistics  trends  leapfrogging 
april 2010 by robertogreco
March 8, 2010 - Dharavi District Redevelopment: A Symbol of the Future and a Celebration of Cultural Heritage | The 3rd Teacher
"Education across the globe is transforming from a pedagogy that trains children to be information receptors to a pedagogy that trains future generations to be knowledge seekers. An environment that supports “multiple intelligences” is imperative—it must provide a diversity of teaching and learning spaces to support a wide range of learners. Flow and agility will be intrinsic in these spaces so that the knowledge sharing and relationship between teacher and learner is constantly enhanced."
education  schools  schooldesign  pedagogy  learning  lcproject  design  thirdteacher  india  mumbai  dharavi  reggioemilia  tcsnmy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | Video on TED.com
""There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect."
ted  dereksivers  maps  mapping  japan  india  health  medicine  culture  opposites  negativespace  streets  perspective  assumptions  inversion  music  africa  timing  westafrica  names  naming  wayfinding 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere
"But you are poor...& you don't have the money he wants. & the most absurd part about the scenario you find yourself in is that this is a public service that should be rendered to you free of charge in the first place. What would you do? You might conclude, as you have done for the last 1.5 years, that there isn’t much you can do…but wait, you just heard about a local NGO by the name of 5th Pillar & it just happened to give you a powerful ally: a zero rupee note.
politics  economics  activism  government  money  development  corruption  currency  protest  governance  solutions  india  bribery  bribes  rupee  worldbank  design 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch | Video on TED.com
"Collector Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most exciting young contemporary artists. Working in a variety of media, each draws on their local culture for inspiration." "The names of the artists, in order, are Bharti Kher, A. Balasubramaniam, Chitra Ganesh, Jitish Kallat, N.S. Harsha, Dhruvi Acharya, Raqib Shaw, Raqs Media Collective, Subodh Gupta, and Ranjani Shettar."
art  india  glvo  ted  artists 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Minimally Invasive Education: Lessons from India | Psychology Today [via: http://aeroeducation.org/2010/01/17/minimally-invasive-education-lessons-from-india/]
"Mitra...describe[s]...minimally invasive education...education w/ minimal amount of intrusion into children's lives...experiments demonstrated that children learned at an amazingly rapid rate with no adult teachers. All that the educators had to do was to provide the tool, the computer. The children's natural curiosity, playfulness, & sociability took over from there...Children in school are not free to pursue their own, self-chosen interests, & this mutes their enthusiasm. Children in school are constantly evaluated. The concern for evaluation & pleasing the teacher...overrides and subverts the possibility of developing genuine interest in the assigned tasks. Children in school are often shown only one way to solve a problem & told that other ways are incorrect, so the excitement of discovering new ways is prevented. Segregation of children by age in schools prevents the age mixing & diversity that seem to be key to children's natural ways of learning."
tcsnmy  unschooling  deschooling  sugatamitra  holeinthewall  petergray  india  learning  outdoctrination  lcproject  play  curiosity  playfulness  sociability  freedom  agesegregation  evaluation  education  self-directed  self-directedlearning 
january 2010 by robertogreco
‘Titanic Emergent’ « Snarkmarket
"I’m try­ing to track down stats for Bol­ly­wood audi­ences out­side India. I don’t know if they’re truly sig­nif­i­cant (more than, say, 10% of the audi­ence inside India) but I’m sure they’re grow­ing fast—in Pak­istan, Bangladesh, the Per­sian Gulf, and Indone­sia. Many for­mer Soviet states, believe it or not. And of course Amer­ica, too. This is one of the rea­sons I’d bet on India in the 21st cen­tury: it’s a net exporter of media. Really, there are only a few coun­tries with that dis­tinc­tion, right? The U.S. is one (mostly movies and TV); Japan is another (mostly anime, manga, and video games). Now India’s in the club. See you at the Naz 8."
india  media  film  bollywood  robinsloan  trade  exports  future  us  japan  markets  culture 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Why Academic Excellence Doesn't Cut It Any More | Beyond School
"First, your grades might get you in the door, but they won’t get you up the ladder. (And in this Age of Defining-Down “Success,” even getting in the door shouldn’t be taken for granted. Having a job at all, in other words, may be the “new” success. Just ask the 1-in-5 Americans currently unemployed or under-employed.)
grades  grading  clayburell  social  socialintelligence  attitude  tcsnmy  teaching  success  entitlement  privilege  asia  us  india 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 - By Joshua Keating | Foreign Policy
"#4 A New Housing Bubble?: More than any other factor, ill-advised speculation on U.S. real estate set off the global financial crisis. But even after millions of foreclosures and secondary effects rippled through economies around the world, U.S. homeowners might be starting to make the same mistakes all over again."
politics  china  india  iraq  foreignpolicy  uganda  housingbubble  crisis  finance  brasil  security  media 
december 2009 by robertogreco
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Walls around the world
"Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989."
walls  borders  us  mexico  israel  korea  geography  urbanism  photography  politics  architecture  migration  landscape  botswana  zimbabwe  india  pakistan  iran  saudiarabia  ireland  westbank  ceuta  melilla  spain  riodejaneiro  cyprus  sahara 
november 2009 by robertogreco
How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul
"But interestingly when that partnership was over, NIIT didn’t take the project down the non-profit route. It’s not because the company is adverse to such things—it’s also opening a new high-end university that is run as a non-profit. But there’s a unique attitude in India that believes the way to eradicate poverty is to turn India’s scrappiest, free-market entrepreneurs on the problem, not to increase handouts.
sugatamitra  holeinthewall  india  philanthropy  poverty  economics  education  learning  outdoctrination 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Caterina.net: Being Lazy by doing too much
"There's a Buddhist teaching," one of our friends on the mailing list writes, "that the impulse to stay busy can be a particularly insidious form of laziness. As Sogyal Rinpoche put it:
culture  psychology  work  process  wisdom  productivity  balance  eustress  stress  caterinafake  sogyalrinpoche  laziness  india  western  slow  compulsivity 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy
"Asia is pouring money into higher ed...But Asian unis will not become world's leading centers of learning & research anytime soon. None of world's top 10 unis is in Asia, only U of Tokyo...[in] top 20. In last 30 years, only 8 Asians (7 Japanese) have won Nobel Prize in sciences...region's hierarchical culture, centralized bureaucracy, weak private unis & emphasis on rote learning & test-taking will continue to hobble its efforts to clone US finest research institutions...even Asia's much-touted numerical advantage is < it seems. China supposedly graduates 600,000 engineering majors /year, India... 350,000,...US...70,000 engineering...suggest an Asian edge in generating brainpower...[but] misleading. 1/2 of China's engineering grads & 2/3 of India's have assoc degrees. Once quality is factored in, Asia's lead disappears...human resource managers in multinational companies consider only 10% of Chinese & 25% of Indian engineers even "employable," compared w/ 81% of American engineers."
asia  china  india  economics  future  power  world  global  us  policy  japan  education  engineering  innovation  creativity  testing  assessment  rotelearning  geopolitics  politics  globalism  korea  universities  colleges  schools  competition  hierarchy  quality  bureaucracy 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Video: Bollywood for Beginners | Mother Jones
"Hindi cinema, long dismissed by the West as melodrama with a soundtrack, is the largest film industry (by volume and global popularity) in the world. Those so inclined can laugh, cry, and swoon their way through three hours of lush scenery, arch comedy, and catchy music in theaters across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet Bloc, not to mention Canada, the UK, and the borough of Queens. So why have so few Americans ever seen a Bollywood movie? If you're daunted by the prospect of sorting through 900 films per annum, consider this your beginner's guide to Bollywood.
bollywood  film  india  music 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Charles declares Mumbai shanty town model for the world | Art and design | The Guardian [see also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/prince-charles-architecture]
"The Mumbai shanty town featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire offers a better model than does western architecture for ways to house a booming urban population in the developing world, Prince Charles said yesterday. Dharavi, a Mumbai slum where 600,000 residents are crammed into 520 acres, contains the attributes for environmentally and socially sustainable settlements for the world's increasingly urban population, he said. The district's use of local materials, its walkable neighbourhoods, and mix of employment and housing add up to "an underlying intuitive grammar of design that is totally absent from the faceless slab blocks that are still being built around the world to 'warehouse' the poor".
dharavi  mumbai  india  architecture  design  poverty  slums  sustainability  urban  urbanism  density  economics  politics 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Dharavi: User-Generated City | airoots/eirut
"Why is it that Dharavi exercises so much fascination for architects, urbanists, researchers, students and journalists from all over the world? Is it because it is the “largest slum in Asia”? Is it because it is under imminent threat of being redeveloped? Is it because it is worth billions? Is it because the global media loves to recycle stereotypes of victimhood and third world poverty? These tired clichés and false alarms have filled the news for some time. But it is time to reload our browsers."
mumbai  india  cities  user-generated  usergenerated  dharavi  asia  slums  post-industrial  hybridspace  place  design  architecture  self-development  ingenuity  capitalism  knowledge  wikipedia  growth  typology  streets  authenticity  development 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Archinect : News : Mumbai's Hidden Heart
"A view of Dharavi, the real slum where part of the story of "Slumdog Millionaire" plays out. Via the Los Angeles Times Slideshow and Video
mumbai  india  slums  cities  urban  urbanism 
january 2009 by robertogreco
What Keeps Me Going with One Laptop Per Child - One Laptop Per Child News
"Seeing five year olds handling their XOs with ease was just amazing. Seeing them document their lives & showing me photos via the journal suddenly made a lot of sense. All discussions of a lack of a file manager were moot at that point. Rahul & Manisha sure don't need a file manager to show me what they did! They could care less about /etc or /usr/local/ I wish I could get the journal on my Ubuntu Thinkpad laptop. They had documented a tight rope walker who visited Khairat... [and] ... Gandhi's birthday (2 Oct) and showed me the photos. They didn't care that Sugar was slow. After all, for them to know that Sugar is slow, they would have to know something faster! They love their XOs and it shows." ... "OLPC brings a level of hope that is rare in projects. Netbooks, while an offshoot of what OLPC has done, still fail to address key issues. They still have embedded Wi-Fi antennas w/ poor range, still are not sunlight readable & I don't think any of these are fanless (no moving parts)."
olpc  hardware  sugar  software  india 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Laurent Haug’s blog » Hole in the wall
"Philippe was so impressed by Sugata Mitra’s presentation of his hole in the wall project (which received more than 25′000 views on liftconference.com and ended up being published on TED talks) that he flew to India to shoot street kids experimenting with self-education." see also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phitar/sets/72157609414016354/
photography  self-education  autodidactism  autodidacts  sugatamitra  learning  education  india  computers  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  outdoctrination  holeinthewall 
december 2008 by robertogreco
hole in the wall - a set on Flickr [via: http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2008/12/24/hole-in-the-wall/]
sugatamitra  learning  unschooling  computers  india  self-directedlearning  autodidacts  autodidactism  photography  deschooling  lcproject  outdoctrination  holeinthewall 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Mutant fish develops a taste for human flesh in India - Telegraph
"The enormous goonch, a type of catfish, is said to have developed a taste for human flesh after feeding on corpses thrown into the river after funeral ceremonies. Locals rumours have held for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to targeting live bathers who swim in the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal borde"
fish  animals  india  monsters  food  oddities  via:regine 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Read This: The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam
"Victor Katz has put together five experts: Annette Imhausen on Egypt, Eleanor Robson on Mesopotamia, Joe Dauben on China, Kim Plofker on India, and Len Berggren on Islam. These are all well-known historians, and several of them are writing or have writte
math  tcsnmy  classideas  ancients  mesopotamia  china  india  islam  eqyptians  history  books 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » StoryBank – using mobiles to share stories in an Indian village
"Skipping the text-based internet paradigm altogether, the project is exploring how camera phones and a library of digital stories (the story-bank) can be used to extend existing initiatives in community radio."
mobile  storytelling  images  anthropology  projects  india  phones  sharing  storybank 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Rise of the Rest [Fareed Zakaria] Newsweek.com [comments: http://www.newsweek.com/id/135380/output/comments]
"For America to continue to lead the world, we will have to first join it...Americans—particularly the American government—have not really understood the rise of the rest....Just as the world is opening up, we are closing down."
politics  economics  us  world  globalization  future  history  democracy  fear  optimism  international  gamechanging  policy  foreignpolicy  china  russia  india  development  via:preoccupations 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?- New York Times
“Pushing technologies on society w/out thinking through consequences is at least naïve, at worst dangerous...IMHO people that do it are just boring...Future Perfect is pause for reflection in seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller,
janchipchase  design  ethnography  nokia  research  future  travel  process  mobile  phones  business  trends  development  poverty  economics  empowerment  microlending  banking  markets  china  africa  india  cities 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Can India save the world?- Hindustan Times
"From financial crises to health epidemics...moving into world where more global governance is needed to manage growing interdependence. Instead humanity is either shrinking global governance...perhaps only one country can solve this crisis — India."
india  global  geopolitics  crisis  politics  international  world  governance 
march 2008 by robertogreco
The Hindu : Front Page : Scarlette Keeling’s mother alleges cover-up
"Accusing the police of fabricating the panchanama" - new word for me
india  law  documents  wisdom  trust  justice  words  language  glvo 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Question Box - All About Question Box
"telephone intercom...connect people to Internet...requires no literacy/computer skills...Users place free call...pushing green button...operator w/ Internet-enabled computer..finds answers to questions, sends & receives emails on caller's behalf."
accessibility  development  internet  rural  search  literacy  india  knowledge  information  email  technology  voice  access  digitaldivide 
march 2008 by robertogreco
2MM (Two Million Minutes = time in high school) :: A GLOBAL EXAMINATION
"Our goal is to tell the broader story of the universal importance of education today, and address what many are calling a crisis for U.S. schools regarding chronically low scores in math and science indicators."
fear  documentary  schools  competition  globalization  film  education  learning  assessment  us  policy  international  china  india 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Jan Chipchase - Future PerfectShared Mobile Phone Practices
"What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use?...based on how & why people share in what ways can devices & services be redesigned to optimise shared user experiences?...should they be re-designed?"
mobile  phones  community  social  communication  nokia  janchipchase  ethnography  anthropology  africa  uganda  india  collaborative  mobility  digitaldivide  usability  design  culture  research  user  interaction  future 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Developing world to drive global growth | Business | The Guardian
"Hopes for a soft landing rest with China and India as rich economies face a slowdown"
economics  globalization  global  international  us  housingbubble  china  india  via:cityofsound 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India’s Schools - New York Times
"Japan is suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, China and India. But even in this fad-obsessed nation, one result was never expected: a growing craze for Indian education."
education  trends  fear  japan  india  schools  curriculum  competition  globalization  economics  children 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Rana Dasgupta - The Sudden Stardom of the Third-World City
"The idea of the total, centralised, maximally efficient city plan has long since lost its futuristic appeal: its confidence and ambition have turned to anxiety and besiegement, its homogenising obsession has constricted the horizons of spiritual possibil
architecture  culture  futurism  future  globalization  trends  mikedavis  society  development  cities  megacities  favelas  slums  poverty  urbanism  urban  world  global  india 
november 2007 by robertogreco
A Wireless Revolution in India
"With young people and others using their phones for texting, e-mail, and Web surfing, it's an increasingly wireless way of life on the Subcontinent"
india  mobile  phones  mobility  internet  web  online  texting  email  wireless  society 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Sugata Mitra: Catalyst of Curiosity | Edutopia
"Inventor of the off-the-wall idea for Hole-in-the-Wall Education: Put a free computer workstation in the wall of a poor New Delhi neighborhood, and the local children will quickly learn to use it through their own curiosity and experimentation. He calls
sugatamitra  education  india  learning  autodidacts  children  lcproject  computers  internet  holeinthewall  outdoctrination 
september 2007 by robertogreco
Why you'll soon be avant-gardening | Reviews | Visual Arts | Arts | Telegraph
"Why you'll soon be avant-gardening Last Updated: 12:01am BST 16/06/2007 By 2030, two thirds of the world's population will live in cities. A new show at Tate Modern shows what their lives will be like."
cities  urban  urbanism  society  mexico  mexicodf  df  losangeles  brasil  sāopaulo  japan  tokyo  density  diversity  population  exhibits  london  india  china  sustainability  policy  politics  economics  architecture  art  events  photography  future 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Tate Modern | Current Exhibitions | Global Cities
"Global Cities looks at changes in the social and built forms of ten large, dynamic, international cities: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo."
cities  urban  urbanism  society  mexico  mexicodf  df  losangeles  brasil  sāopaulo  japan  tokyo  density  diversity  population  exhibits  london  india  china  sustainability  policy  politics  economics  architecture  art  events  photography  future 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT for NIIT Chief Scientist Sugata Mitra
sugatamitra  outdoctrination  education  learning  india  homeschool  future  teaching  lcproject  autodidacts  technology  society  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  internet  online  computers  children  holeinthewall 
april 2007 by robertogreco
Hole-in-the-Wall
sugatamitra  outdoctrination  education  learning  india  homeschool  future  teaching  lcproject  autodidacts  technology  society  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  internet  online  computers  children  holeinthewall 
april 2007 by robertogreco
Dr Sugata Mitra - Chief Scientist, NIIT
sugatamitra  outdoctrination  education  learning  india  homeschool  future  teaching  lcproject  autodidacts  technology  society  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  internet  online  computers  children  holeinthewall 
april 2007 by robertogreco
India: Hole-in-the-Wall
sugatamitra  outdoctrination  education  learning  india  homeschool  future  teaching  lcproject  autodidacts  technology  society  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  internet  online  computers  children  holeinthewall 
april 2007 by robertogreco
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