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21 November 2012
Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need | Co.Exist
Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. When our Women Barefoot Solar Engineers return to their isolated rural villages in the poorest countries, finish setting up their workshops and solar electrifying their communities, then what? How do we build capacity once their training time with us is over?
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21 Novemeber 2012
The Power of Art in Place | InnovationManagement
Major catastrophic events aside, we are and will continue to be an urban planet; by 2030 60% of us will live in cities. Ensuring that those cities are economically successful, liveable and functional will enhance human health and wellbeing; pleasant places is becoming a focus of research, technological investment and policy discussions on a grand scale. Art and artistic endeavour in all its guises, from major public works to small scale neighbourhood schemes, will also have a major role to play in creating attractive places and economic vitality.
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21 Novemeber 2012
Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, L.A., Seattle, and NYC lead top 20 tech hubs on the planet | VentureBeat
The Startup Genome has analyzed 50,000 startups around the world to create what it is calling the first “data-driven ranking” of the top 20 tech hubs on the planet. And to highlight just how important startups are to national and global economies. Who knew, for example, that Sydney, Australia, is global capital of “data-driven startups?” Or that the top nine startups of the last 15 years have generated nearly a trillion dollars in value, helped along by the likes of Facebook, Google, and Amazon?
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21 Novemebr 2012
Labour unrest impacts on graduate confidence, survey finds | Polity.org
Continuing strike action and labour unrest that has occurred throughout South Africa over the last few months has had a serious impact on the confidence of the country’s graduate professional market, according to the PPS Graduate Professionals Confidence Index, which was published on Tuesday. The quarterly survey, which tracks the confidence levels of nearly 6 000 of South Africa’s graduate professionals…
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19 November 2012
Infrastructure needed to boost entrepreneurs – Gigaba | Polity.org
South Africa needs to diversify its economy and invest in infrastructure to encourage entrepreneurship, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Thursday. "The structure of the South African economy has been constraining. There has been an asymmetry of information," he said at an event hosted by the South African Black Entrepreneurs' Forum in Johannesburg.
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