It’s Lights out for Sydney’s famous skyline on On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m. for Earth Hour. On 4/29/2008 millions of people in some of the world’s biggest cities will unite to switch off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – all in an effort to send a powerful global message on [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 24, 2008
Engineering the end of hunger with Jock Brandis
“It makes their work less tedious and increases productivity up to 50 times,” says Brandis. “One machine will work for an entire village, so when we’re talking about 100 machines, we’re not talking about 100 families — we’re talking about 100 villages.” – Jock Brandis, Full Belly Project Jock Brandis is the inventor of the Sustainable Peanut [...]
March 12, 2008
An innovative use of Salesforce.com to track disaster restoration
The biggest challenge after any calamity, esp. the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina is how to track, manage and report on what resources are needed and where. Generally all the resources pool at the very begining but due to poor management and miss-allocation the volunteers dwindle away. Broadmoor a town in Parish county, Louisiana was was [...]
March 1, 2008
Google East African Gadget Competition
Title: ‘Compete to build a Gadget’ Registration Date: Registration opens February 25th; the deadline is March 17th. Who is it open to: This competition is open to university students across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia. Rules: Participating students will have approximately four months to design and build functioning Google Gadgets either solo or in [...]
