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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

" I had the opportunity to speak with David Keyes, executive director of Advancing Human Rights , to learn more about this project. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time. It's crowdsourcing for human rights." Bernstein , the founder of Human Rights Watch.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were supposed to start our visit with a very high government official, but instead Kipp took me over to Nairobi Women’s Hospital. Visiting the Hon.

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