Hi, here is the list of projects that we will be working on at IDDS 2008:

1.System for Flash Heating Breast Milk to help combat transmission of HIV
2.Incubator for low birth weight infants in rural zones
3.Hand held medical diagnostic tool
4.Micro Hydro Small scale water power
5.Power Generation from Mechanical Devices
6.Ropeway Transport system
7.Charcoal Crusher
8.Pearl Millet Thresher
9.Educational Television Computer
10.Interlocking Stabilized Soil Block Maker

Camron Assadi, Deputy Internet Director of Mercy Corps talks to us about why email still works, the awesomeness of Google Grants, and how Gmail makes it easy to check your email in Tajikistan.

Okay, time for an update to let you know what we've been doing at Ushahidi with the winnings from the NetSquared Challenge.

Ory and I are madly dashing around Kenya, meeting with local NGOs and users to determine what we need to build into Ushahidi's Engine (version 2). We helped sponsor the local Barcamp Nairobi, which was a huge hit and brought us even more developers.

Mark Surman, expert on collaboration, community building and social technology talks to us about how the Shuttleworth Foundation is kick starting South Africa's knowledge economy by using the principles that have made open source so successful.

International Development Design Summit IDDS is dedicated to using technology to design simple yet efficient solutions for problems in the developing world. The application for IDDS 2008 is now available. Deadline Feb 10

Low Technologies, High Aims -- Andrew C. Revkin. 11 September 2007, NYTimes

Beneath the bustling “infinite corridor” linking buildings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just past a boiler room, an assemblage of tinkerers from 16 countries welded, stitched and hammered, working on rough-hewn inventions aimed at saving the world, one village at a time.

Regards, 

Let me know if you're interested in a preprint I did for the Institute for the Future's Ten Year Forecast on the financial space over the next ten years.

I talk about alternative capital, intangible assets, and corporate social responsibility movements, etc.

I'm listed as being associated with my start-up, Civv.us, which is very early stage community enterprise (probably for-profit, because I want to attend specifically to alternative capital valuation).

Other than the capital component, I have expertise particularly in the education, k-12, community spaces in the US.

My blog:
http://kitode.typepad.com