With their country's small population and geographic isolation, Australians are fans of crowdsourcing, which lets them work with millions worldwide. "We're the world leaders. It's our future," says Ross Dawson, co-author, with Steve Bynghall, of...
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All posts for April 2012
Wokbolic antennas and extralegal strategy
Onno Purbo (@onnowpurbo) reuses radio frequencies and other wavelengths to help give the poorest and most poorly served access to the Internet. His favorite method – not really a secret, since it's open source – is a wifi antenna made from a wok,...
Read moreInnovation according to Silvio Meira, Recife
Silvio Meira (@srlm) is the chief scientist at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems. I met him in Brazil, where he gave me his definition of innovation....
Read moreArgentina takes on the U.S. and U.K.
The markets are in the north, the talent in the south, and the technology is everywhere. This is the formula that Globant, an Argentinian enterprise-software company, built its strategy on. And it works. Created in 2002 with $5,000 (3,800 Euros), it...
Read moreStartup Chile
Some people, like investor Amon Kohavi (@arnonk), might have reasons to critique Startup Chile. But the program, created by the Chilean government to encourage the creation of innovative companies, is worth checking out. Which I did in Santiago, on...
Read moreBathroom reading at the Australian incubator, Pollenizer
Where good ideas come from (article in French), and where they're read.Photo taken at Pollenizer, a dynamic Sydney incubator that I'll talk about again....
Read moreBrazil: In Recife, Innovation and Design for Job Creation
Located in the historic center of one of the America's oldest cities, Porto Digital is a technology park that has made the northeastern city of Recife Brazil's third IT hub, behind São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The park is the result of efforts of a...
Read moreBrazil: Ledface Answers Your Subjective Questions
Where was Einstein born? You probably don't know (I don't), but no big deal: Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo and Bing, to name a few, can give you the answer almost instantaneously. But if you want to find the best book for exploring his theory … then...
Read moreJOURNAL – Off again
It's that time again. I'm writing this in Recife, the first city I'm visiting during my first "real" world tour. By this I mean that, after Mexico, North Africa and part of the Middle East, this time I headed west out of Paris, and am coming back...
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