Tag Archives: Stuff that doesn’t fit

Lift09 — Baba Wamé — L’appropriation de l’Internet par les femmes camerounaises

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Remerciements. Cameroun: petit pays d’Afrique Centrale (11 fois plus gros que la Suisse). 18mio d’habitants. Langues officielles: anglais et français. Villes: Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Garoua, Maroua, Bamenda. Internet dès 1997, 400000 utilisateurs internet, dont 50000 en connexion directe. 2500 cybercafés … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — James Gillies — How the Web awas Born: Stories from a scribe

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Was in the right place at the right time to write the story, says he. 1995: “we must write the story before everyone forgets…” James expected it to be a dull boring story. Big surprise! You can’t just tell the … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Jörg Jelden — Fakesumption

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Unauthorized products. Office in Beijing, was shocked by the importance of fakes over there. Talked to his manager “let’s do something about it”. So started talking to fakesters, those who track them down, lawyers. Disclaimer: not making fun of a … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Matt Webb — Scientific Fiction and Design

Posted on 27.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Book: Cusp, Robert A. Metzger. SF (steph-note: sounds like a crazy story, need to read it!) This is not the SF we’re talking about here. No flying cars, silver skullcaps… Here: Scientific Fiction (World War Z — zombie story; the … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Sarah Marquis

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Laurent: extraordinary stand-in speaker Sarah Marquis, an adventurer who goes off for months on end, walking across Australia for example. Est-il possible aujourd’hui d’imaginer se retrouver dans la nature sans aide technologique? On est des mammifères après tout. Pas d’électricité, … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Pascual Oriol

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

(Enviu Innovation Lab) We believe consumers are rational, and if we provide information to them, they will act accordingly. steph-note: big mistake!! The future of sustainability is in the hands of entrepreneurial people. People with Wow! ideas. Innovative solutions for … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Envisioning the Future City — Anne Galloway

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Expectations, promises and hopes are things that we do. Anne looks at what people do, make, say. Tries to figure out why we don’t do, make, say other things. To make certain futures happen: broken relationships between certain groups of … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Dan Hill — Soft Infrastructure Superpowers

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

Has been travelling since Monday, arrived from Australia 3 hours ago. Poor Dan! How to re-route 400 passengers? Soft infrastructure, bits of paper with numbers on. In Hong Kong, malfunctioning aircrafts (steph-note: not sure I’m understanding all this.) Hotel Smart … Continue reading →

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Lift09 — Future Cities — Carlo Ratti

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

We are headed for the death of cities. In 2008, half the world population is living in cities. mapping = complexity to simplicity How do we make sense of all these digital representations of physical spaces? Bunch of projects. (haha! … Continue reading →

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Lift09: Turning Lake Leman into Silicon Valley?

Posted on 26.02.2009 by Stephanie Booth

I participated in a Birds of a Feather session earlier, titled How can we make Lac Léman into an entrepreneurial hub? — I found it a little frustrating to start with, but it ended up really lively and interesting. One … Continue reading →

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