“Free” – Watching the speech by Chris Anderson

CScout wrote about his latest book project by Chris Anderson, called “Free”.

I am just watching his speech hold at the “Nokia World 2007″:
Free – The Past and Future of a Radical Price.

I like the idea of thinking of expensive things becoming free. Chris is mentioning several areas which became “free”: computer processors, semiconductors, bandwidth, storage etc…

You can watch the speech here:
http://www.netvision.de/uk/dispatching/?event_id=5bb1b5e95afabb2e62d2b148ded47706&portal_id=369401748e8249f142a700d8098a3473

Two great ideas for Christmas Gift

Today I want to give you two great christmas present ideas.

The first is called ninemillion, managed by my friend Claudia Gonzalez-Gisiger from the UN Refugee Agency – UNHCR.

The goal of ninemillion is to provide an Education for nine million refugee children by 2010.

The second christmas gift idea is called Kiva.
Kiva is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to small businesses in developing countries. It is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco. Kiva is supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and other institutions.
I really like the idea of Kiva – because you can choose where your money is going and what is done with it. You get a total transparency of the project.

So I wish you a merry x-mas and a successful new year 2008.

Review leweb3

leweb3 is an inspiring event. It was great attending it.

One of the highlights this year was the diner with David Sifry, Doc Searls, Hans Peter Brondmo, JP Rangaswami, June Cohen, Claudia Gonzales-Gisiger and Kathy Brooks .
Thank you for the inspiring conversation.

The digital plaster

Today I found the digiatl plaster.
An Innovation made in England by Toumaz.

Toumaz Technology believes that demands on healthcare throughout the developed world are changing. The combination of the global demographic trend towards an ageing population coupled with a sedentary western lifestyle and poor diet is leading to higher probability and earlier onset of chronic disease. Factoring in the growing patient demands for personalised treatment, medicine and services, the result is huge cost pressures on healthcare.

Healthcare information systems in use today were mainly designed to manage acute illness, such as infections and injury, making them ill-equipped to cope with the growing requirement for pervasive monitoring of long-term conditions. With healthcare budgets already overstretched and fewer carers – professional and non-professional – available to meet these increased needs, the forecasted additional demands are simply unsustainable using current practice. A new paradigm is required.

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