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Visualizing Technical Debt
Mark Hissink Muller's Complexity Map creates a tree map that helps Java and J2EE/JEE developers keep unintended complexity to a minimum--effectively monitoring what Ward Cunningham described as "technical debt." The visualization allows ...
Regenerative Development
Sante Fe-based planning and design consults the Regenesis Group approach sustainable development in a way that fully integrates place into the processes of restoration, growth, and ecologically-friendly use. Rather than viewing ...
Another Use for Jazz
Years ago, planner Lawrence Halprin experimented with using musical scores and choreographic notation (as well as the hexagrams from the I Ching) to create a common language for artists, designers, ...
Knowledge Infrastructure
While vacationing in Nepal in 1998, "overworked Microsoft executive" John Wood had the opportunity to visit a small rural school. Disturbed by the lack of books in the school's library, Wood emailed ...
Ask a Collaborative Expert
IdeaConectionhelps companies develop new concepts and engage in research without the necessity of maintaining permanent research and development staff. Customers present a problem and set a payment amount, researchers who have ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Sacred Wind
In February 2007, the New Mexico nonprofit Sacred Wind Communications Community Connect (SWCCC) began to provide computer training and Internet access to Navajo families through the Huerfano Computer Training Center. Visitors who complete a series ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
Making the World A Better Place One Geek at a Time
Geekcorps pairs socially-conscious technology experts with communities to promote development and inter-connectivity. The group tackles these issues on three broad fronts: information technology, business development, and education. To meet the broadest range of ...
Five Million ‘Thank You’s from Recycled Canvas
Recycled Canvas, our recycled research wordpress theme that collects data about its users, has been around for a pretty long time now. We've collected an incredible amount of data. We've had ...
Knowledge Networks
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will hold a conference in Bangkok at the end of this month to explore the role of information technology in ...
Designers without Borders
Originally created to provide support for the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Kampala, Designers without Borders has become a cutting-edge consultant for schools and nonprofit groups in Africa. Supporters ...
Building Rural Communities
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Managing Information with Rural America(MIRA) grant-making program attempts to use collaborative community development techniques to make electronic communications and information technology more readily accessible. Funding supports coalitions ...
Sustainability Wiki
Appropedia, a sustainable development wiki, offers participants a chance to share everything from theoretical information about technology, poverty, and the environment to detailed plans for home improvement and art projects. ...
Urban Renewal
The subtle beauty of working and lower-class housing fascinated poet William Carlos Williams, who praised "the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements." A community arts program in ...