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I just love old bookstores, and I collect Africana books, so stumbling on this gem in Camden, Maine was wonderful.
Nancy Kete joined the Rockefeller Foundation in January 2012. As Managing Director, Kete leads the Foundation’s global work on resilience including developing strategies and practices for infusing resilience thinking throughout the Foundation’s work. During her 25 year career in government, civil society, and private sector, Kete has brought technical, institutional, and managerial leadership to bear on a number of major environment and societal challenges. She has been a diplomat, a climate change negotiator, a social entrepreneur, and a highly successful fundraiser. Before joining the Foundation, Kete spent thirteen years at the World Resources Institute (WRI), first as Director of the Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program and then as founder and Director of EMBARQ, a distinguished program that catalyzed environmentally sustainable transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey and the Andean region.
Eben Upton is a founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as its Executive Director. The Raspberry Pi is an ultra-low cost, credit card-sized computer designed to fill a much-needed technological gap in communities that cannot afford more traditional computing hardware and to provide children around the world the opportunity to learn programming.
When Eben and his team at Oxford realized that kids weren’t exploring computer programming the way he and his peers had back in the 1980s, which he foresaw as “a kind of slow motion disaster for the entire society,” they created ultra low-cost, compact computers that are competitive with other devices. His premise: If we don't provide children with the education or tools needed to become interested, they will not become empowered by technology. Raspberry Pi seems to have hit on something that’s meeting that need: In just a few months since they launched, the not-for-profit organization has already sold 100,000 computers and is well on its way to selling a projected one million computers by the end of the year.
Steve Lansing is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a senior fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His recent research is centered around long-term dynamics of coupled social-ecological systems. One of his current projects explores emergent properties of Balinese water temple networks and he's currently assisting the Indonesian government to create a new UNESCO World Heritage site to help preserve the temple networks. Lansing is also conducting a comparative study of social structure, ecology, kinship, language change and the evolution of disease resistance in 69 villages on 14 Indonesian islands.
Photos from Pop!Tech 2007 that I never really got around to posting. I'm excited to announce I'll be headed back to Maine again this year in October! :)
This years theme explores the dynamics between systems based on scarcity and those based on abundance, in areas ranging from digital social networks to environmentalism, from biology to business, from peacemaking to politics.
Nick Martin is founder and president of TechChange, which has developed a unique, scalable, and interactive model for online training in international development. With courses ranging from mHealth to financial literacy to open government, TechChange uses a mobile-friendly, MOOC-ready learning management system that includes low-bandwidth support, live video streaming, social media integration, game mechanics, translation support, security and more. To date, TechChange has prepared over 2,000 alumni from over 100 countries to apply technology effectively and appropriately in response to global challenges.
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist at Harvard specializing in how people perceive and influence each other.
Photos from Pop!Tech 2007 that I never really got around to posting. I'm excited to announce I'll be headed back to Maine again this year in October! :)
This years theme explores the dynamics between systems based on scarcity and those based on abundance, in areas ranging from digital social networks to environmentalism, from biology to business, from peacemaking to politics.
Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist specializing in the development of intelligence and creativity. He applies a variety of perspectives to come to a richer understanding and appreciation of all kinds of minds and ways of achieving greatness.
Pablo Suarez demonstrates the use of "serious video games" in an interactive session designed to explore how vulnerable communities cope with climate disruption.
photo by Thatcher Cook for PopTech
photo by Thatcher Cook for PopTech
Scott Williams has dedicated his life to catalyzing massive, global change to build systemic resilience. He is a Global Sustainability Board member for pwc and the Sustainability Leader for pwc Japan. Williams works to articulate the information asymmetries and perverse incentives that currently inhibit the transformation needed to achieve global sustainable development and systemic resilience.