Mapping /
Crowdsourced Mapping
Crowdsourced Mapping
"JUST south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, sits one of the world's largest slums, Kamrangirchar. Although hundreds of thousands of people call it home, it has never been mapped.
The goal is to build basic maps for the settlement and many like it across the developing world. The organization hopes to improve the lives of millions by helping locate everything from gaps in infrastructure to the sources of pollution and disease.
To make the maps, MSF will give volunteers smartphones they can use to note the location of the features in their neighborhood, down to each house and water pump. The detail will be added to a digital map called OpenStreetMap that's free to use. Volunteers will be allowed to keep the phones after the project is over, and MSF hopes this will seed the creation of a local chapter of mappers who will keep Kamrangirchar's digital representation up to date.
Even the Ebola outbreak in West Africa would have been easier to fight with better maps."
Wearables
- Smart health monitors to predict your medical future (New Scientist)
- Google's New Moonshot Project: the Human Body Baseline Study to Try to Create Picture From the Project's Findings (Wall Street Journal)
Artificial Intelligence /
Personal Agent
- Amazon Reveals the Echo, a Siri-Like Home Assistant That Doubles as a DJ (Wall Street Journal)
- Google Now Can Search Within Any App In Handset (Uber Gizmo)
- Cortana to give voice and ears to Dynamics CRM (Computer World)
- Microsoft adds Cortana support to Dynamics CRM 2015 (ZDNet)
- Cortana voice commands integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft
- Microsoft Is Giving Away Its Office 365 Mobile Apps (Wall Street Journal)
- Steve Ballmer Goes to College: On Campus With Stanford's New Professor (BusinessWeek)
"Professor Ballmer shows up on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to teach 80 or so MBA hopefuls. His class, Leading Organizations, runs two hours to covers topics ranging from accountability to time allocation.
"Now you have to reconstruct what the company means and how it dovetails with the products.” Ballmer then uttered something that I never expected to hear. “If you want to tell a new story about Microsoft, you need new leaders."
USgovernmentspending.com
"Social welfare is only $0.5 trillion out of $6.6 trillion spent. That shocked me—shocked me!" Ballmer explains that in addition to the websites, he’s hitting up one Stanford professor after another and mining them for information. He doesn’t want to go into government, but he wants to perfect it somehow.
"the fact is that there is not a coherent theory that the government seems to be working on."
Ballmer says now: "I am 58 and I’ve got some time, some money, a network, and some intelligence. I just don’t know how to make a difference.”
It's great to see leaders of Tech Industry willing to assist leaders of Government and thinking on "redesigning" the Government and make a difference.
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