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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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World Environment Action _ in 30 seconds


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(in Alpha development as we speak 9 May 2010)
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What if reporting an environmental problem was as simple as sending a message?
What if the world knew about every environmental problem and we were taking action together?
What if we were rewarded for doing good?
This is the World Environment Action, w-e-a.org
TAKE ACTION
" 
We are now looking for developers and tech-savvy environmental activists -> Volunteers !? Get in touch.

Made in Nairobi Kenya, at the *IHub_ by Cesar Harada
Music : Modeselektor, Hello Mom, "Vote or Die"
Thanks to : Joshua Musau, Jessica Colaco, Nana Nduati, Angela Nicole.

Filed under  //  Agreement   Economy   Obama   Object Oriented Politics   Politics   Summit   Transparency   USA   WEA   World Environment Organization  
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Making maps to fight disaster, build economies, Lalitesh Katragadda TED

We dont need to map things to think the world, we can update the maps day after day, from satellite view.

We attempted making maps of threats

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and compute them real-time in what we call the Swarm Search Engine (Ozaki, Harada 2009) :

Politics today cannot be done efficiently without efficient vizualisation tools, and even better if they are real-time upadated (via GeoRSS for example)

Filed under  //  Economy   Google   Maps   Open_Sailing   RSS   Swarm_Operating_System   TED  
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