Have you seen a Bodafone?
Posted: June 22, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: Africa, Anjali, india, infrastructure, inspiration, technology, tinker 2 Comments »
Ken Banks devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa.
In his essay, Mobiles in Africa: A Travellers Perspective, Ken Banks describes the entrepreneurial spirit thriving in Africa around the mobile industry,
“..Mobile phones are attached to bikes (two and three wheelers), and even boats, and taken to where the business is. In Uganda these bikes, known locally as boda boda’s, are hooked up with spare batteries and desktop mobile devices to create what are affectionately known as Bodafones”. Read the rest of this entry »
J. K. Rowling spins a different kind of magic
Posted: June 11, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: Anjali, big ideas, failure, imagination, inspiration, JK Rowling, video 2 Comments »“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began directing all my energy into the only work that mattered to me. Had I already succeeded in anything else, I would have never found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I was still alive, I had a daughter who I adored, I had an old typewriter, and a big idea, and so, rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J. K. Rowling choses to talk about the benefits of failure and the power of imagination in her commencement speech at Harvard. Read the rest of this entry »
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