Think that mobile social apps are a waste of time and energy? What if you could use them to make the world a better place? Inhabitat took a look at mobile-based applications and systems designed to promote positive social good. Here are five rising social impact apps to watch.
The Extraordinaries Unable to [...]
5 minute video involving several leaps of faith for the future of the internet of things. To be fair, one of the narrators at the end admits these are the baby step years for the internet of things.
Internet of Things defined as the point when data about things is greater than data about people.
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We try to get hopeful in this class, on the way to final presentations.
If products could tell their stories april 18
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It’s not every day that we get to see a Federally-funded hack:
More of the story here if you want to make one yourself.
Op-Chart in the NYTimes on the weekend of the iPad launch - a lifecycle analysis of the iPad, timely for discussing the core element of analysis in LCA - the functional unit.
Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence and Gregory Norris, LCA software expert at Harvard authored the “chart” comparing e-readers. The authors compared the Kindle, [...]
Stakeholder management is an alternative to shareholder-based management, but shareholders are still at the table. In this class we look at the impact of shareholders on how things are made. Review of sources of competitive advantage, limits to growth theories, and emerging alternatives to the current organizational structures available. Social entrepreneurship, Coops, Conscious Capitalism discussed [...]
For the rest of this course, 11 students will become obsessed with 11 things. How these things are made. Where they are made. Who makes them. Who consumes them. How people make money of of these things. How these things are marketed. How governments regulate these things. How activists and NGOs advocate to change the [...]
What role does government and regulation play in determining how stuff is made? Short answer - it depends on local, regional, state, federal, foreign governments, and international organizational administrations. In a stakeholder view of how things are made, regulation is one of the fastest changing, hardest-to-predict forces and as makers, we need to work in [...]
Discussion of initial LCA research as a background to product story.
Consumer behavior as a lever of change.
If Products Could February 1 2010 B
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Second term at NYU ITP teaching a seminar course on systems thinking, lifecycle analysis, stakeholder management, and talking about spimes. Teaching product storytelling dymanics to students who know how to make things talk.
If Products Could Jan 25 2010
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