Graph showing: Press Freedom Index (Rank & Score) for Maldives from 2003 to 2012. Data sourced from: http://en.rsf.org - Reporters Without Borders
“If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.” - Aung San Suu Kyi
TEDxWomen — Morley (by TEDxTalks)
Natural Fuse (project site: naturalfuse.org) “Natural fuse” is a micro-scale carbon dioxide overload protection framework that works locally and globally, harnessing the carbon-sinking capabilities of plants. Generating electricity to power the electronic products that populate our lives has consequences on the amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere, which in turn has detrimental environmental effects. The carbon footprint of the power used to run these devices can be offset by the natural carbon-capturing processes that occur as plants absorb carbon dioxide and grow. “Natural Fuse” units take advantage of this phenomena. They are now distributed in households in London, New York and San Sebastian. (via haque :: design research)
Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation
Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation is a New York-based non-profit which fortifies potent creative voices in global Contemporary Art & fosters local Youth Empowerment in Vanuatu at Tanna Center for The Arts - a carbon negative artist retreat in Melanesian South Pacific.
#djspooky #kickstarter
Something about the Culture of Sharing
The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but because our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized.
Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.Arab Countries & the Culture of Sharing
The 3rd Creative Commons Arab regional meeting is the annual gathering of the Creative Commons communities operating from the Arab world where the grassroot communities made up by youth and civil society members coming from different fields (education, law, art, music, etc) that are actively spreading through their works values as openness, sharing, peer-production, collaboration & innovation.
The 3rd Creative Commons Arab regional meeting - by CC and Nawaat- was a celebration of these communities and these values and Tunis has been chosen as a symbolic location, the place where, in December 2010, the Arab youth started to re-shape the Region and gave a new burst to creativity and cooperation as the basis of a better future for the new Arab generations.
Creativity, peer-production and “sharism”were at the basis of this meeting, which featured a set of workshops given by the Creative Commons Arab communities to youth and civil society participants in Tunis.
During the music Workshop two songs were created by arab musicians together and performed at the Nejma Ezzahra concert 2nd July at the occasion of the Third Regional Arab meeting Creative Commons. These songs will be released soon in January 2012 under CC licensed CD.Both the concert and the CD will try to boost the idea of open-source music and legal sharing in the Region, encouraging the Arab youth to share music legally but also to produce their own, through peer-collaboration and remix which is allowed by the CC license itself.
Kerim Bouzouita, Tunisia (source Nawaat)
"every version of an “other”, wherever found, is also the construction of a “self"
James Clifford “Introduction: Partial Truths” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986)
carne humana - animanaturalis
Mutual Recognition
Mutual Recognition by Abdullah Faraz (@n3m6) provides a necessary perspective for the so-called liberals & extremists of mv. #civility [Amorphous]
a word cloud from the Wikipedia article on Mohamed Amin Didi the first president of the Maldives
