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Online Privacy: Enabling Identified, Pseudonymous, & Unidentified Uses
Alma Whitten (Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering, Google) in her blog post “The freedom to be who you want to be…“ makes the distinction between three modes of online use which Google sees...
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Mapping with Google Fusion Tables
Google’s Fusion Tables, a way to manage large amounts of data online with powerful visualization capabilities built into it, was recently graduated out of Google Labs and became an app available on the...
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Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) Heralds a New Era for Access to Information
2011 has been a great year for Kenya in the areas of access to information and open data. Samburu & Masai Mara, Kenya (cc) CanWeBowlPlease First, in April 2011, Kenya Gazette Notices dating back to...
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Small Revolutions Expand Epic Innovations
Gutenberg’s printing press is widely (and rightfully!) celebrated as an innovation of epic scale. It fundamentally changed society as it existed up until that point. Printed materials became easy to...
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Required Skills for the Future Work Force
Apollo Research Institute (formerly University of Phoenix Research Institute) has identified 10 work skills that are critical for the future work force: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper...
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Rote Memorization Fail: Thiruvilayadal vs. Konar Tamil Urai
Recently we were watching the movie Thiruvilayadal at a friend’s place. Without going into too much of the plot (since that does not add anything to the subject of this post), there is a segment in it...
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Writing on the Wall as Appropriate Technology for Transparency
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (known widely as NREGA) is the rural employment guarantee scheme implemented by the Indian government in August 2005. The law guarantees 100 days...
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Can Empathy be ‘Taught’ to Adults?
Empathy plays a critical role in AIDA’s learning program. And, we are constantly looking for new ways to incorporate it into our curriculum. Here is one such example from Resilience: Why Things Bounce...
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Showers and Supportive Work Environments
Guardian has an interesting article on Youth unemployment: can mobile technology improve employability? by Linda Raftree (@meowtree) and Nick Martin (@ncmart). Excerpts: The ILO reported that 74.8...
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Connectivism: Learning Theory for the Future?
The “future of education” – that fancy-sounding terminology is always on the top of our minds here at AIDA. Like many other sectors of society today, education sector is in the middle of a massive...
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