This week saw us launch the Speed Evidence Portal publicly. It was an exciting time for us as it was the culmination of a year of building and testing in countries like Philippines, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, and the UK. The Speed Portal is an information management...
While flipping through Flipboard the other day, I was stopped dead in my tracks (or flips) by the BBC headline "Braille phone goes on sale in 'world first'". I laughed at the thought as I tried to picture it and also at the title of the article - the world's first...
Recently, Seth Godin wrote a short little blog post about non-profits and innovation. He argues that due to the fact the organisations are not profit driven, in order to please shareholders they have a higher responsibility to be relentless in their focus on...
I love creativity. I wish I had more of it and more courage to express the bits I have. Inspiration can be one of those allusive things that we all search for and yet it can be found anywhere we find ourselves. And when I say anywhere, I do mean anywhere, which is one...
A mobile phone for blind people is definitely an eye-catching headline, but not a regularly thought-of target market, especially for smart-phones. I've blogged earlier about Siri and the iphone talking about potential benefits for the blind with this development....
I thought I'd share an "old" invention that you might not be aware about - the Copenhagen Wheel. In one sense, it's a bicycle with a fat red thing on its back wheel, however the fat red thing is quite the little device. Not only does it help you pedal (little extra...
Sometimes innovations in technology or other parts of life can seem like its innovation for innovation's sake with no real purpose, yet sometimes innovations that we label in this way are taken by others and fabulous things are created with them. So I'll admit, I...
What would happen if we were responsible for the reuse of the waste we create? What would we do differently? How would we live and go about creating our products differently? In a previous post, I wrote about the Cradle to Cradle movement, which is mostly around...
A few weeks ago, I was home visiting my parents and found myself reading the Canadian Geographic magazine article on the Canadian railways. What impressed me was the changes that have been made in the ability to move freight throughout the massive country. Currently,...