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Street portraits, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India.
A blog about photography in Fort Kochi
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Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Bogota, South America.
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East morning, first light on the beach in Chennai. Indian's love a Selfie, pigeons or not! Taken with the Sigma art lens and 5D4.
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My favorite image from the vintage car rally on Sunday morning - part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Bombay. This Tibetan monk was standing in the shade, watching the vintage car rally, and taking photographs of some of the cars with his mobile phone...
see this for details. And read about the rally on the Kala Ghoda Gazette here - more pictures in the Kala Ghoda set.
Shot in Uganda.
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Several young Afghan men listen as a representative from M-Paisa, or mobile money, describes how mobile bill pay works. The ability to pay the electricity bill via mobile phone, rather than going to the bank, will be a great convenience for Afghans who often lack access to inexpensive transportation. Paying by M-Paisa will also save hours of waiting in line to pay electricity bills.
Photo by FAIDA
You could wonder for a long time why your computer is so noisy, heats like an oven, and - if you have laptop - why battery life is so shot?
And I can't accept answers like "modern operating systems require a lot of power" or "computer hardware is energy-inefficient".
Reality is that some operating systems (or vendors producing those OS'es) just do not care to use available hardware efficiently. And OEMs (ODMs) "forget" to install drivers required to run OS in energy-efficient mode.
This screenshot illustrates what you can achieve with AMD Turion X2 Ultra processor and Windows Vista.
AMD Power Monitor can be used later to control actual CPU speed, voltage, and Northbridge (NB) voltage and frequency.
AMD Power Monitor
AMD Power Monitor displays the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. This version of AMD Power Monitor supports systems with Athlon™ FX, mobile AMD Athlon™, AMD Athlon™ X2, AMD Turion™ 64, AMD Turion™ 64 X2, AMD Sempron™, mobile AMD Sempron™, AMD Phenom™, AMD Opteron™, and AMD Opteron™ Third-Generation processors.
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NHS Staff, with a valid NHS Athens account, can download for free NICE's new BNF for Children App. Available on Android and Apple devices.
Evelyn Chelimo of Eldama Ravine, Kenya, says that thanks to M-KOPA, “I can now sew my children’s clothes at night. My children can also read, without worrying about spending too much on kerosene”.
M-KOPA (in Kenya) and Persistent Energy Ghana (PEG) are enabling low-income customers to buy clean energy on a pay-per-use basis through their mobile phones. Customers are also able to use mobile banking such as M-PESA, a hugely successful mobile banking phone service seed-funded by UK aid and Vodafone in Kenya.
M-KOPA’s provision of efficient, low-cost solar power systems not only gives households access to clean, renewable energy by reducing the use of kerosene and dry cell batteries, but also saves around $750 over 4 years.
PEG, meanwhile, installs remotely controlled solar micro-grids and home systems in low-income, off-grid households across Sub-Saharan Africa.
In less than 2 years M-KOPA has attracted over 100,000 customers, with around 2,000 homes now being connected every week. M-KOPA is expanding from Kenya to Uganda and Tanzania, and expects to reach 1,000,000 homes by 2018.
PEG, too, has installed systems in over 400 households, bringing solar light, phone charging and appliances to over 2,000 people.
M-KOPA and PEG are funded by UK aid.
Picture: Georgina Goodwin/M-KOPA
Student using a tablet in class. The students of the Koror Elementary School are beneficiaries of the North Pacific Regional Connectivity Investment Project. The project aims to provide the people, businesses and government agencies with affordable, high-quality internet access.
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Innovation Happens Pittsburgh is a group of entrepreneurs and corporate executives who connect in the Pittsburgh area once a quarter to network and see demonstrations from innovative startups.
The format of the event is similar to speed-dating, allowing corporate executives get exposed to a number of startups in a very brief period of time. (Each startup demonstration is only six-minutes in length.)
The third event was held April 28, 2011 at AlphaLab. The companies that presented included BlenderHouse (www.blenderhouse.com), Black Locus (www.blacklocus.com), Branding Brand (www.brandingbrand.com), CivicScience (www.iqpoll.com), Mobile Technologies (www.jibbigo.com), and Vivo (www.vivolive.com).
Find out when the next Innovation Happens will be held by joining their Linkedin Page link.in/PghIH
Shot in Uganda.
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Leah Talam of Eldama Ravine, Kenya helps her daughter to study using clean energy provided by M-KOPA. She says, “Sometimes my children could not do their homework because we would run out of kerosene. Now they can study early or late”.
M-KOPA (in Kenya) and Persistent Energy Ghana (PEG) are enabling low-income customers to buy clean energy on a pay-per-use basis through their mobile phones. Customers are also able to use mobile banking such as M-PESA, a hugely successful mobile banking phone service seed-funded by UK aid and Vodafone in Kenya.
M-KOPA’s provision of efficient, low-cost solar power systems not only gives households access to clean, renewable energy by reducing the use of kerosene and dry cell batteries, but also saves around $750 over 4 years.
PEG, meanwhile, installs remotely controlled solar micro-grids and home systems in low-income, off-grid households across Sub-Saharan Africa.
In less than 2 years M-KOPA has attracted over 100,000 customers, with around 2,000 homes now being connected every week. M-KOPA is expanding from Kenya to Uganda and Tanzania, and expects to reach 1,000,000 homes by 2018.
PEG, too, has installed systems in over 400 households, bringing solar light, phone charging and appliances to over 2,000 people.
M-KOPA and PEG are funded by UK aid.
Picture: Georgina Goodwin/M-KOPA
A new point-of-sale operator helps a new customer in Nepal, where a USAID partnership with Mega Bank Ltd. has developed a branchless baking initiative.
Photo by Manisha Shrestha, NEAT
Students of the Palau High School using a table in class. They are beneficiaries of the North Pacific Regional Connectivity Investment Project. The project aims to provide the people, businesses and government agencies with affordable, high-quality internet access.
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NHS staff, with a valid NHS Athens account, can download for free NICE Guidance, BNF or BNF for Children apps. Available on Android and Apple devices.
Feed the Future encourages farmers to use mobile money technology in order to enhance their farming activities. Photo credit: The ADVANCE project
Feed the Future’s Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) project, in collaboration with the Global Development Lab, released a video about how digital financial services help farmers safeguard their livelihoods. In Ghana, ADVANCE uses digital financial services to help farmers grow their businesses.
www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=369
sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/press
Article by
Olga Panades Massanet (10/12/09)
About
project Open_Sailing 10/12/09 by Cesar Harada
Open_Sailing's biggest achievement is perhaps to have turned our future into an open source project. Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I thought.
Initially the project started by mapping threats, the idea being that threats can produce something else than fear. Indeed Cesar Harada, was decided to turn threats into design constraints. This constitutes an interesting methodology to deal with the current climate of fear. The exploitation of threat has become the standard procedure to stabilize a permanent state of emergency. Mobilising virtual threats, states acquire exceptional powers that facilitate the implementation of ever more pervasive measures of control. The current case of swine flu is the last of a long list of exercises of mass modulation of fear. War on terror is the paradigmatic one. On the other hand, and following the warnings of the Maya calendar, all sorts of popular tales for an apocalyptic 2012 have started to populate the planet.
The role of Open_Sailing is to function as a catalyst that channels all this energy into the production of a better future. In short, its role is to transform fear into hope. Certainly this functioned as a strong attractor for new collaborators and soon the team started to grow. After putting together large amounts of real-time data about all sorts of dangers such as tsunami, terrorist attacks, nuclear accidents or pandemics, it became clear that the potential safest spots on earth were mostly located at sea. That led to the idea of designing the infrastructure necessary to inhabit those spots based on the concept of 'Open Architecture'. Fear had been successfully turned into an active force unleashing the creative process. Inspired by this initial concept the Open_Sailing team started a very intense process of scientific, technological, architectural and artistic research that resulted in a first prototype awarded at Ars Electronica: Open_Sailing_01.
"A drifting village of solid and comfortable shelters surrounded by flexible ocean farming units: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive." [1]
This drifting village, which is about 50 metres in diameter and can host four people, is designed to respond to its environment, being able to become compact and endure severe weather conditions, and spreading out to harvest in calm situations. Open_Sailing_01 was supposed to set sail last May 2009 but mis-coordination in the production with Ars Electronica delayed the plan. In the meantime, small intermediary prototypes of different modules are being built and tested constantly, but the Open_Sailing team hopes to put together the main modules of the International_Ocean_Station for general testing by the summer 2010.
One other important thing that came across in the interview with Cesar Harada was how soon after Open_Sailing was set in motion, it became clear that the project was not only about escaping the problematics of our society. It was definitely not an idealistic utopia happening elsewhere and starting a world from scratch. Rather than an exercise of escapism, they realised that the idea of inhabiting those sites where there is no threat had become an experimental laboratory where to grasp the future. Indeed Open_Sailing is very much about finding ways to face and deal with the very problems of our world.
"Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where 'Apocalypse' beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit this planet." [2]
This became particularly obvious when the team flew to Morocco to try out some live-saving structures. Between the coast of Morocco and the Canary Islands in Spain hundreds of illegal immigrants die every year at sea. A high-seas permanent shelter would provide a low cost life-saving facility for the migrants.
This particular instance is also paradigmatic of the way in which experimentation is carried within the project. Future thinking is developed through material instantiations. This very characteristic process of design and engineering disciplines gives Open_Sailing an exciting palpability, a materiality, a commitment with actualisation that accounts for its potential to bring about real change. Commitment with results drives the project away from the artistic disciplines, but the poetics of the project undeniably brings them back together. A project that in a year of development has acquired such a level of complexity necessarily had to go through a very intense and accelerated process of conceptualisation and experimentation. And there comes the figure of the enthusiast, an experimental survivalist who is willing to take a plane the morning after an idea has come up to participate in a military training testing life-saving technologies.
Even more interesting is perhaps how this enthusiasm becomes contagious and the project starts to work as a truly open source venture. Open_Sailing becomes a powerful autonomous entity that keeps bringing people in a dividing itself into labs. Each new lab engages a whole new group of contributors, with a new set of preoccupations and hopes. The project proves to be definitely not about the implementation of a master plan or utopian blue print, but an example of how open source can literally be applied to the construction of alternative worlds. Within these labs we find different experimental research projects focusing for example on mesh networking; pollution, climate and natural reserve monitoring; sustainable aquaculture in high seas; or energy autonomous systems that generate electricity through wind, sun or wave power.
Now, there is of course the problem of co-option. The research being done is a very useful material with infinite commercial and even military applications. But perhaps this is not something that compromises the success of the project. Rather, its value lies in its capacity to encourage people to co-design their own futures. It is more about joining people that want to create than attracting those that want to buy. Surely, it is the process of creation of alternative that's been set in motion that is truly significant, even more than the technologies being produced. Furthermore, Open_Sailing manages to reverse the process of co-option, the same way it reverses the effects of threat. Collaborators turn to scientific institutions, corporations, military research, as a useful resource, and then open up the knowledge acquired. This is not a new 'green design' product for the consumerist society, it is a spark for a collaborative rethinking of the world.
USAID's recent MOU signing with the Ford Foundation, Show of Force, and Games for Change on the Half the Sky Movement Media and Technology Engagement Initiative. Photo credit: Hallie Easley, Ford Foundation.
Students enjoy using tablets for their class. The students of the Koror Elementary School are beneficiaries of the North Pacific Regional Connectivity Investment Project. The project aims to provide the people, businesses and government agencies with affordable, high-quality internet access.
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Shot in Uganda.
This picture was made for and is property of Text to Change (www.texttochange.org)
Beyond Borders Media - www.beyondbordersmedia.com
Single female undergraduate student using an iPad mobile device in Fountain Canteen. Bright colours and abstract backgrounds. Shot for JISC by freelance.
RT @History_Pics: US Army Signal Corps demonstrated early #MobileTechnology with the radio horse, 1940s buff.ly/1diKGRU
www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=369
sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/www/press
Article by
Olga Panades Massanet (10/12/09)
About
project Open_Sailing 10/12/09 by Cesar Harada
Open_Sailing's biggest achievement is perhaps to have turned our future into an open source project. Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I thought.
Initially the project started by mapping threats, the idea being that threats can produce something else than fear. Indeed Cesar Harada, was decided to turn threats into design constraints. This constitutes an interesting methodology to deal with the current climate of fear. The exploitation of threat has become the standard procedure to stabilize a permanent state of emergency. Mobilising virtual threats, states acquire exceptional powers that facilitate the implementation of ever more pervasive measures of control. The current case of swine flu is the last of a long list of exercises of mass modulation of fear. War on terror is the paradigmatic one. On the other hand, and following the warnings of the Maya calendar, all sorts of popular tales for an apocalyptic 2012 have started to populate the planet.
The role of Open_Sailing is to function as a catalyst that channels all this energy into the production of a better future. In short, its role is to transform fear into hope. Certainly this functioned as a strong attractor for new collaborators and soon the team started to grow. After putting together large amounts of real-time data about all sorts of dangers such as tsunami, terrorist attacks, nuclear accidents or pandemics, it became clear that the potential safest spots on earth were mostly located at sea. That led to the idea of designing the infrastructure necessary to inhabit those spots based on the concept of 'Open Architecture'. Fear had been successfully turned into an active force unleashing the creative process. Inspired by this initial concept the Open_Sailing team started a very intense process of scientific, technological, architectural and artistic research that resulted in a first prototype awarded at Ars Electronica: Open_Sailing_01.
"A drifting village of solid and comfortable shelters surrounded by flexible ocean farming units: fluid, pre-broken, reconfigurable, sustainable, pluggable, organic and instinctive." [1]
This drifting village, which is about 50 metres in diameter and can host four people, is designed to respond to its environment, being able to become compact and endure severe weather conditions, and spreading out to harvest in calm situations. Open_Sailing_01 was supposed to set sail last May 2009 but mis-coordination in the production with Ars Electronica delayed the plan. In the meantime, small intermediary prototypes of different modules are being built and tested constantly, but the Open_Sailing team hopes to put together the main modules of the International_Ocean_Station for general testing by the summer 2010.
One other important thing that came across in the interview with Cesar Harada was how soon after Open_Sailing was set in motion, it became clear that the project was not only about escaping the problematics of our society. It was definitely not an idealistic utopia happening elsewhere and starting a world from scratch. Rather than an exercise of escapism, they realised that the idea of inhabiting those sites where there is no threat had become an experimental laboratory where to grasp the future. Indeed Open_Sailing is very much about finding ways to face and deal with the very problems of our world.
"Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where 'Apocalypse' beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit this planet." [2]
This became particularly obvious when the team flew to Morocco to try out some live-saving structures. Between the coast of Morocco and the Canary Islands in Spain hundreds of illegal immigrants die every year at sea. A high-seas permanent shelter would provide a low cost life-saving facility for the migrants.
This particular instance is also paradigmatic of the way in which experimentation is carried within the project. Future thinking is developed through material instantiations. This very characteristic process of design and engineering disciplines gives Open_Sailing an exciting palpability, a materiality, a commitment with actualisation that accounts for its potential to bring about real change. Commitment with results drives the project away from the artistic disciplines, but the poetics of the project undeniably brings them back together. A project that in a year of development has acquired such a level of complexity necessarily had to go through a very intense and accelerated process of conceptualisation and experimentation. And there comes the figure of the enthusiast, an experimental survivalist who is willing to take a plane the morning after an idea has come up to participate in a military training testing life-saving technologies.
Even more interesting is perhaps how this enthusiasm becomes contagious and the project starts to work as a truly open source venture. Open_Sailing becomes a powerful autonomous entity that keeps bringing people in a dividing itself into labs. Each new lab engages a whole new group of contributors, with a new set of preoccupations and hopes. The project proves to be definitely not about the implementation of a master plan or utopian blue print, but an example of how open source can literally be applied to the construction of alternative worlds. Within these labs we find different experimental research projects focusing for example on mesh networking; pollution, climate and natural reserve monitoring; sustainable aquaculture in high seas; or energy autonomous systems that generate electricity through wind, sun or wave power.
Now, there is of course the problem of co-option. The research being done is a very useful material with infinite commercial and even military applications. But perhaps this is not something that compromises the success of the project. Rather, its value lies in its capacity to encourage people to co-design their own futures. It is more about joining people that want to create than attracting those that want to buy. Surely, it is the process of creation of alternative that's been set in motion that is truly significant, even more than the technologies being produced. Furthermore, Open_Sailing manages to reverse the process of co-option, the same way it reverses the effects of threat. Collaborators turn to scientific institutions, corporations, military research, as a useful resource, and then open up the knowledge acquired. This is not a new 'green design' product for the consumerist society, it is a spark for a collaborative rethinking of the world.
Leah Tallam of Eldama Ravine, Kenya, says of M-KOPA, “I used to spend 11 cents each day to charge my phone at the market. I now do it in the comfort of my home”.
M-KOPA (in Kenya) and Persistent Energy Ghana (PEG) are enabling low-income customers to buy clean energy on a pay-per-use basis through their mobile phones. Customers are also able to use mobile banking such as M-PESA, a hugely successful mobile banking phone service seed-funded by UK aid and Vodafone in Kenya.
M-KOPA’s provision of efficient, low-cost solar power systems not only gives households access to clean, renewable energy by reducing the use of kerosene and dry cell batteries, but also saves around $750 over four years.
PEG, meanwhile, installs remotely controlled solar micro-grids and home systems in low-income, off-grid households across Sub-Saharan Africa.
In less than 2 years M-KOPA has attracted over 100,000 customers, with around 2,000 homes now being connected every week. M-KOPA is expanding from Kenya to Uganda and Tanzania, and expects to reach 1,000,000 homes by 2018.
PEG, too, has installed systems in over 400 households, bringing solar light, phone charging and appliances to over 2,000 people.
M-KOPA and PEG are funded by UK aid.
Picture: Georgina Goodwin/M-KOPA
Producer Dirk O'Conner sing an agricultural smart phone app to do calcuations in the field. Plevna, MT., July 2013
AMD Power Monitor
AMD Power Monitor displays the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. This version of AMD Power Monitor supports systems with Athlon™ FX, mobile AMD Athlon™, AMD Athlon™ X2, AMD Turion™ 64, AMD Turion™ 64 X2, AMD Sempron™, mobile AMD Sempron™, AMD Phenom™, AMD Opteron™, and AMD Opteron™ Third-Generation processors.
You could wonder for a long time why your computer is so noisy, heats like an oven, and - if you have laptop - why battery life is so shot?
And I can't accept answers like "modern operating systems require a lot of power" or "computer hardware is energy-inefficient".
Reality is that some operating systems (or vendors producing those OS'es) just do not care to use available hardware efficiently. And OEMs (ODMs) "forget" to install drivers required to run OS in energy-efficient mode.
But you can do it yourself.
This screenshot illustrates what you can achieve with 2.5 years old computer and Windows XP, running on AMD Turion 64 X2 processor.
You need to install AMD Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64) - Allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination to match the instantaneous user performance need.
AMD Power Monitor can be used later to control actual CPU speed, voltage, and - with AMD Turion X2 Ultra - Northbridge voltage and frequency.
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Participate in the EBL e-book trial and read online or offline on your PC, tablet device, smartphone or compatible e-reader.
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USAID's recent MOU signing with the Ford Foundation, Show of Force, and Games for Change on the Half the Sky Movement Media and Technology Engagement Initiative. Photo credit: Hallie Easley, Ford Foundation.
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
At Mobile World Congress 2013, Intel showcased a range of smartphones and tablets based on Intel technology. Mobile World Congress is one of the largest annual gatherings of more than 60,000 mobile leaders from 200 countries to one place at one time to define the mobile future.
One of the project employees of Text to Change, during work in Kampala.
Shot in Uganda.
This picture was made for and is property of Text to Change (www.texttochange.org)
Beyond Borders Media - www.beyondbordersmedia.com