http://bobuva.com Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:09:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I read quite a few interesting articles in the Saturday edition of the International Herald Tribute, the International version of the New York Times. There was a striking article about requests by Japanese to the United States for an apology for dropping nuclear bombs on their country during World War ... http://bobuva.com/?p=233 I just finished reading an extraordinary chapter in Jacqueline Novogratz' book The Blue Sweater where she visited two Rwandan women in prison. About a decade earlier, Jacqueline had built with these women a business that empowered Rwandan women to make a living with their own businesses. She saw how hard ... http://bobuva.com/?p=206 I attended the first day of the Regional Innovation Forum 2009 held at the Portland Expo Center on Friday. A blog was created which has some videos and participant comments. I participated in the Social Innovations track which was led by Amy Pearl, Executive Director and co-founder of Springboard Innovation. ... http://bobuva.com/?p=195 The Question Box is a brilliant project put together by Open Mind, a US-based non-profit, to provide web information access to those who do not have any internet connection. It works by employing an intercom system and an operator. Someone in a remote area where a Question Box is deployed ... http://bobuva.com/?p=189 From Saturday morning until a few hours ago I've been, as my wife would describe it, in my cave. I was a little grumpy, not very communicative, wanting to get off by myself to 'work.' I came out of the cave as I realized more clearly what I can do ... http://bobuva.com/?p=185 Pursuing a goal like eradicating poverty throughout the world is not for someone without patience. There are NGO and governmental initiatives and programs to get behind, there are minds to change both inside poverty-striken countries and in the rest of the world, and there are outcomes to measure. Defeating poverty ... http://bobuva.com/?p=169 Back in mid-June of this year, I bought a MacBook Pro to use as my personal machine. Although I had owned a Mac G4 dual-proc tower earlier in the century, I didn't put it to much use before selling it. So the MBP was and is effectively my first MacIntosh ... http://bobuva.com/?p=162 Ethan Zuckerman's posts (an example) on serendipity have got me thinking. He has been concerned with how the way people use the web has led to more and more like-minded people reading the same things, resulting in their wearing blinders of sorts to other points of view. My first thought ... http://bobuva.com/?p=154 I attended BarCampAfrica at the Google campus on Saturday. It was an incredible event. This unconference was the brainchild of Ellen Petry Leanse and Kaushal Jhalia, with some incredible volunteer work by many including Saul Wainwright, Shara Karasic, and many more, and a sponsorship by many organizations including, of course, ... http://bobuva.com/?p=124 Technologies such as OpenID and OAuth were created as open specifications to provide a single digital identity and to allow you to provide secure access to your data for services which you use on the web. In an effort to "create a home for community-driven specifications," the Open Web Foundation ... http://bobuva.com/?p=78