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PopTech 2009: Alec Ross
Senior Advisor on Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross, says it's time to reboot US diplomatic efforts abroad. Ross calls for 21st century statecraft based on the innovative use of new media. Previously, Ross co-founded One Economy, a nonprofit devoted to closing the digital divide, and brought his expertise to then Senator Obama’s presidential campaign.
Cast: PopTech
Collected 3 days ago from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged society, government, politics, usa, new media
PopTech 2009: Lorrie Vogel
The General Manager for Nike’s “Considered” team, Lorrie Vogel is conducting pioneering research in sustainable product design. Vogel says that green design requires fundamentally altering Nike business practices – which would see waste cut by 17% and the use of eco-conscious materials boosted by 20% – and transforming social attitudes about everything we do.
Cast: PopTech
Collected 3 days ago from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged business, design, sustainability, product design, renewables
PopTech 2009: Erica Williams
Erica Williams is a Washington, D.C.-based activist and commentator who currently serves as the Deputy Director of Campus Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress. In this riveting Poptech talk, Williams discusses how the Millennial generation—today’s 18-30 year olds—are re-imagining the nature of political engagement.
Cast: PopTech
Collected 3 days ago from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged society, activism, social justice, community, politics
Tony Hey: Citizen Science
As Corporate Vice President of External Research for Microsoft, Tony Hey is responsible for public-private partnerships with scientific and engineering communities, government agencies, and industry partners worldwide. At PopTech 2009, Hey discussed the critical role of citizen scientists in understanding complex data-intensive problems like climate change and galaxy formation.
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 17, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged science, citizen science, collaboration, crowdsourcing, poptech
PopTech 2009: Lorrie Vogel
The General Manager for Nike’s “Considered” team, Lorrie Vogel is conducting pioneering research in sustainable product design. Vogel says that green design requires fundamentally altering Nike business practices – which would see waste cut by 17% and the use of eco-conscious materials boosted by 20% – and transforming social attitudes about everything we do.
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 16, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged business, design, sustainability, product design, renewables
PopTech 2009: Marije Vogelzang
Marije Vogelzang runs her own food-design laboratory, Proef, in the Netherlands. She is inspired by everything that surrounds the act of eating – from the stories and rituals surrounding food preparation to the emotional impact of the texture and color of specific foods. The result? Edible art installations that are at once provocative and intimate.
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged poptech, pop!tech, marije, vogelzang, proef
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Eben Bayer
Eben Bayer is co-founder of Ecovative Design, an initiative that transforms low-value agricultural byproducts into strong biological composites that can be used as biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastics, foams, and packaging materials.

ecovativedesign.com/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged environment, plastics, green, technology, recyclable
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Hayat Sindi
Hayat Sindi co-founded Diagnostics For All to offer point-of-care diagnostic tools micro-fabricated in paper. These technologies allow healthcare workers to monitor the treatment of the 60% of people living beyond the reach of medical infrastructures. Sindi is also an advocate for science education and careers for women in the Middle East.

dfa.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged health, global, technology, information access, health monitoring
PopTech 2009: Michael Pollan
Author and activist Michael Pollan is a passionate advocate for sustainable food. In his compelling talk at PopTech, he explores how our industrial food system is keeping us overly dependent on fossil fuels, destroying our environment, and making us sick. Breaking this cycle requires fundamentally changing our relationship to food - and eating more meals together.
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged poptech, activism, sustainable, food, pollan
PopTech 2009: Will Allen
Will Allen is co-founder and director of Growing Power, Inc., an organization that is transforming the production and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. Growing Power operates as an urban farm and education center in Milwaukee, WI, and more recently, Chicago, teaching urban youth how to produce low-cost healthy foods for their communities.
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged poptech, pop!tech, food, population, underserved
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Jason Aramburu
Jason Aramburu launched re:char in 2005 to develop low-cost technologies that fight climate change while improving the quality of degraded soils. re:char’s systems convert agricultural waste into renewable fuel and into biochar, sequestering atmospheric carbon and improving soil quality.

re-char.com/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged energy, technology, climate change, biomass, carbon sequestration
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Nigel Waller
In 2008, Nigel Waller launched Movirtu, an innovative enterprise that aims to provide virtual mobile phone services for people earning less than two dollars a day. As Movirtu expands across Africa and Asia, even the poorest individuals can send text messages and make mobile payments as well as find work and access healthcare.

movirtu.com/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged technology, mobile technologies, business, cloud computing
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Deb Levine
Deb Levine founded ISIS – Internet Sexuality Information Services – in 2001 to build tools to promote sexual health and prevent disease. Using the web, mobile phones and other media, ISIS gives people private and convenient access to information on critical health issues like HIV prevention and unplanned pregnancies.

isis-inc.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged health, education, technology, stds, information
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows Taylor Stuckert and Mark Rembert
Taylor Stuckert and Mark Rembert co-founded Energize Clinton County after the departure of a major employer threatened the Wilmington, Ohio region. The grassroots movement transformed the crisis into an opportunity for the region to become the country’s first Green Enterprise Zone, and a model for 21st Century strategies for America.

energizecc.com/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged business, community, green, redevelopment
Poptech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow James O'Brien
In 2006, principal James O'Brien assembled a staff of like-minded educators to create BCAM – Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School. The fledgling educational-innovation tank combines performance-based academics and professional training in media and arts to prepare teenagers for success in the 21st century.

bcamhs.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged education, social justice, arts, job, training
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit
Josh Nesbit co-founded FrontlineSMS:Medic to bring the innovative use of mobile phones for healthcare to the developing world. A central clinic laptop runs FrontlineSMS software, enabling community health workers to use text messages to coordinate patient care, offer mobile diagnostics, and map health services.

medic.frontlinesms.com/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged health, mobile technologies, africa, community, mapping
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows Aviva Presser Aiden & Hugo Van Vuuren
Aviva Presser Aiden and Hugo Van Vuuren co-founded Lebônê Solutions, Inc. in 2007 to help meet the need for off-grid energy and lighting in the developing world. Using fuel cells sold by local entrepreneurs, this technology generates electricity from soil microbes to power LED lights, cell phones, and other devices.

lebone.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged energy, bio-power, microbes, technology, global
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Derek Lomas
Derek Lomas is director of the Playpower Foundation, a global network of developers, designers, academics, NGOs and businesses founded in 2008. Playpower leverages the availability of ultra-low-cost computers to create and distribute affordable, effective, and fun learning games for under-privileged children around the world.

playpower.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged education, technology, open source, game design, development
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Paula Kahumbu
As executive director of WildlifeDirect, Paula Kahumbu is building a global wildlife conservation community that puts frontline conservationists and their supporters in touch with one another through blogs and direct funding. The goal: a movement powerful enough to reverse catastrophic species loss in Africa and around the world.

wildlifedirect.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged environment, conservation, wildlife, global, africa
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Emily Pilloton
Emily Pilloton founded Project H Design to mobilize innovative product design for social good. In the past year, the organization has built a community of more than 300 designers and launched more than 20 projects in 6 countries. These initiatives include water transport solutions and designs for foster care therapy.

projecthdesign.org/
Cast: PopTech
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from vimeo.com via blog import
tagged design, technology, social good, global
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