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Items tagged with ucsc Invitation to vote and comment on my class' project proposals (141) in Community - GeneralI'm teaching a class on Technology Targeted at Social Issues at UC Santa Cruz. Among other things the students have been creating proposals for startup social enterprises. I require them to address a social problem, use technology somehow, and make e...Updated 28 weeks ago, Tagged by: Nicholas Bentley (CCAL30), Peter Rees, Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
 UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social Issues (21) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesUpdated 28 weeks ago, Tagged by: Peter Rees, Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Assignment: Code 2.0 (248) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis thread is for discussion of the readings from Lessig - Code 2.0 in UCSC's CMPS 80J.
The main reason for this reading (from the point of view of our class) is that it discusses how architecture can be a powerful regulator or enabler of behavior....Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Nicholas Bentley (CCAL30), Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
 Niny Khor (1454)Updated 12 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
James Davis (CCAL30) (1759)Updated 18 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Project: Eco-Friendly Communities (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis discussion is for comments related to the project described here
Project: Eco-Friendly Communities
Our plan is to create planned communities where the primary goals are:
* Low Environmental Impact.
* High Sustainability.
* Comfortable livi...Updated 23 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Choose a second $5k grant from 5 finalists - ends June 18 (25) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social Issues(Title of the discussion changed to be more clear)
These proposals are part of the coursework for a university class, CMPS80J at UC Santa Cruz. The professor provided funding of $5,000 for the best team project to spend the summer pursuing it furthe...Updated 23 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Finalist UCSC Proposals: Water Filters in Africa (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesProject: Water Filters in Africa
We are planning to send low-cost, efficient water filters to small communities in Africa (and hope to go international in the future). Our goal is that the whole community will eventually have clean water. This would...Updated 27 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Assignment: Prof Manduchi's talk on the blind and related tec... (393) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis thread is for discussion of Prof Manduchi's guest lecture in UCSC's CMPS 80J about the blind and some related technologies.
Anything related is fine. Some points to start discussion:
* Did any of the technology presented actually help?
* What...Updated 27 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Finalist UCSC Proposals: UCSC EZ-ride (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesProject: UCSC EZ-ride
The goal of EZ-Ride is to create a carpool system for UCSC students to be picked up at convenient locations in Santa Cruz. The system works by having students with on campus parking passes fill their cars with carpoolers and th...Updated 28 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Finalist UCSC Proposals: Eco-Friendly Communities (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesEco-Friendly Communities
We envision a planned community where retail, commercial, and residential spaces can coexist in an environmentally-friendly and sustainable manner. This mixed-use development will consist of condominiums, retail/commercial a...Updated 28 weeks ago, Tagged by: Haney Armstrong (CCAL30)
Assignment: Find an example of technology for social issues (61) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesSearch the web. Find someone doing something with technology to address any social issue you are passionate about.
Post a comment in this discussion thread with a short description of what they are doing and why its important, along with a link. Tr...Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Project Mushrooms (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesLink: http://www.omidyar.net/group/cmps80j/ws/projectmushrooms/
Mushrooms can be used to leech heavy metals out of a contaminated site. These mushrooms could then be smelted, their ore recaptured and recycled. On non-contaminated sites, mushrooms ca...Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Assignment: Visualization (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis thread is related to UCSC's CMPS 80J.
In class we watched a 20 minute video of Hans Rosling from GapMinder talking about world health and poverty.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
The key interesting thing (in addition to the ra...Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Assignment: Project ideas (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis discussion is related to UCSC CMPS 80J Course
We haven't talked about your project proposals yet. We will do so on Monday April 16th. I just posted in the administrative discussion on roughly what we'll do that day.
In this discussion, you sho...Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Assignment: Prof Shakouri's talk on Reenewable Energy (0) in UCSC's CMPS80J Technology Targeted at Social IssuesThis discussion relates to Prof Shakouri's guest talk on renewable energy in CMPS 80J at UCSC. This seems relevant since in the previous class we had decided that "energy" is at the top of the list of what people are working on. Any questions, discus...Updated 29 weeks ago, Tagged by: Thomas Kriese (CCAL30)
Comment (0) on May 2007: Makin' Bacon & Other Earned Income Strategies (0) in lost in the FOOD CHAIN moved to Ned.comIf you haven't had the chance ... take a look at the `student proposals from UC Santa Cruz`_.
Here's James' `request for O.net engagement`_.
.. _`student proposals from UC Santa Cruz` : http://www.omidyar.net/group/cmps80j/ws/index/#top
.. _`request for O.net engagement` : http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/1886/Updated 30 weeks ago, Tagged by: Peter Rees
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