Reinventing the Firm
Stumbled across this interesting book William Davies on management. Perfect for weekend reading! This book by the way is available as a FREE PDF download over at DEMOS. The blurb sez; The financial crisis has called into question many of our core assumptions about economic structures, governance and institutions. But there has been little attention […]
Mobile phone surveillance basics
Here’s a TechTuesday golden nugget from MobileActive that’s especially useful to at-risk development workers. Do read through this to get a fuller understanding of how your cellphone can be used to track and gather information about you… Mobiles can be useful tools for collecting, planning, coordinating and recording activities of NGO staff and activists. But […]
A portable SMS Gateway
TechTuesday showcases this very interesting SMS application from the inventive guys over at Development Seed. Apparently, with this software, all you need is a USB drive, a computer with internet, and a GSM modem or cell phone…. and “you can have a gateway up and running that is totally decentralized and pushing information up to […]
Our Food, Our Future
A good read we stumbled upon. HungerWednesday thinks this is good to reflect on… This is the award-winning article John Robbins originally wrote for the best-selling 2001 book Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century. It’s the year 2030. A meal is served. It was quick to prepare, just a few seconds in […]
A facilitator’s guide on participatory approaches
ToolkitSunday shares this guide on “how to facilitate participatory processes with multiple stakeholders” by D. Bradley and H. Schneider of the Voluntary Service Overseas. The benefits of participatory approaches can only be felt if all those involved have a common understanding and set of expectations. This guide, designed for volunteers, partner organisations and staff, is […]
Want some cow poop for your house?
Okay, i kid you not, now you can actually construct your house using cow dung bricks! FarmFriday brings this cool technology developed by the cool guys and gals of EcoFaeBrick, an Indonesian organization set up to tackle the problem of excessive waste in farming areas.
Philippine farmers warms up to videoconferencing
TechTuesday presents this newsbit from Open Acadaemy for Philippine Agriculture about their latest project to pilot test for effectiveness in terms of usefulness, appropriateness and clarity to farmers the use of videconferencing to “communicate or convey rice S&T information to OPAPA CyberCom farmers. continue reading about how videoconferencing is helping philippine farmers communicate with agri […]
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PhilRice debuts precision seeder
We like farm equipments especially local inventions so for FarmFriday we showcase this updated version of the seeder produced by PhilRice. If you would like to know more or are interested in buying this machine please contact 0920-911-1398. Even with low-cost drum and precision seeders around capable of seeding rice seeds in rows at 20 […]
Farmland.org documents global landgrabbing
HungerWednesday shares this interesting website we stumbled upon while browsing Grain. Visit http://farmlandgrab.org, website maintained by Grain, “that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production” Grain says the website “provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm […]
