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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. New productivity measurement tools like MySammy measures a teleworker’s productivity level each day. TechSoup: Telework Policies.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

Dan was living in the Mission neighborhood, which at the time was very kid-dense, mostly first-generation immigrants, and Dan noticed that when he was messing around in his garage with physics gadgets, he could not keep the kids in his neighborhood out of his garage. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand.

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