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Technology fixes are the Dark Side
A great Twitter thread on the REAL innovation: APPROPRIATE technology.
What should happen when an organization dies?
Short answer: maybe nothing bad… if you planned for that moment when you CREATED that organizations
Embraco, firing people to make in a cheaper country the SAME, WRONG appliances
Hundred of Embraco workers will very likely lose their jobs soon, because that company is moving production of its fridge compressors to Slovakia. Italian media, politicians and unions are (rightly) talking a lot of those workers. Almost nobody, however, is discussing what KIND of fridges and compressors should be produced, by Embraco or anybody else.
Swatantra'17: software freedom, and awareness of larger picture
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Swatantra'17 conference in Trivandrum, Kerala, and came back with a lot of food for thought.
On Digital DIY, and its place in India
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at the Swatantra17 conference in Trivandrum, Kerala, about “Open, Digital DIY manufacturing across countries and cultures” (here are abstract and slides) ). This is a guest post by Mrs Revathi Kollegala, social entrepreneur and collaborative economy advocate, containing her feedback to my slides.