Category Archives: Content

Final deliverables: marking files, giving credits, adding metadata

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Andrea Botero

Hei, Teemu asked me to do a short reminder about packaging the information and presentations of the whole project that we discussed. A summary of what we agree: 1) Every group will write one blog post with the concept name … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing crisis information

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Anne Luotonen

After reading the previous entries I in my turn started to think action in the actual location of the crisis. How could people who are affected by a crisis be empowered to help themselves and help WHO to help them… … Continue reading →

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Some toughs about toolkit & Storytelling

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Virva Auvinen

Personally I am interested in teaching/learning and storytelling. Reading the WHO post  I saw two point that  I am interested in : “toolkit” of essential health emergency management documents and country information and storytelling describing motivation to work in WHO. … Continue reading →

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Amnesty and torture

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Ilpo Kiiskinen

Here are some links and documents about Amnesty´s recent work on torture. I hope this helps!

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Event: Practical Design for Social Action

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Andrea Botero

I found this information about a workshop in the UK in May 15th organizers are PRADSA (Practical Design for Social Action) and the topic is “Designing the Techniques and Tools that Shape the Future – Social and Technical Challenges ”, … Continue reading →

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web 2.0 and human rights, views from a professional activist

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Andrea Botero

During the past LIFT conference in Geneve, Amnesty international had a “Provocation about web 2.0 and human rights” presented by Helen Suarez and Dan McQuillan (webmaster of AI) the video is in Google Video. In there they discuss the potentials … Continue reading →

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Bed-time reading

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Andrea Botero

3 suggestions for assorted inspiration. It would be nice if you can collect more as comments to this post. Design Like You Give a Damn ISBN 1-933045-25-6 Ed by Architecture for Humanity A compendium of innovative architectural projects from around … Continue reading →

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Notes from Petri Merenlahti’s presentation on 28.11.06

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Andrea Botero

I am gathering here some of the notes I collected from his presentation and will kindly ask all of you to contribute with other insights and points for the benefit of those that where not present, and for comparing ideas. … Continue reading →

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Project general structure and time table

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Andrea Botero

In this post you will find information about the general structure of the projects and what types of activiites are happening when. This diagram shows the main components, topics and dates: Click the image to get a bigger version There … Continue reading →

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Frank Johansson’s presentation slides

Posted on November 15, 2006 by Teemu

Here are the slides from Frank Johansson’s presentation yesterday. If you took notes, feel free to post them here as a comment or as another blog post. Frank Johansson’s slides [PDF] I personally got a lot from Frank’s lecture. I … Continue reading →

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