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The Philippines' Mind Museum Fuses Modern Architecture, Science, And Art

The Philippines's new Mind Museum looks downright alien amid Taguig's industrial skyscrapers. Lead architect Ed Calma wouldn't have it any other way--he knows that in an Internet age, a museum's draw has to begin before you enter the gallery.READ»

Rags2Riches Empowers Impoverished Women To Turn Recycled Scrap Into Haute Couture

Sick of being paid tiny wages to make crafts, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz started an organization to get famous designers to give her work cachet, and started helping get local craftswomen out of poverty.READ»

Asian Megacities at Risk of Billions of Dollars in Damage From Climate Change

A report released today forecasts the potential impact on Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok if climate change is not under control by 2050.READ»

Developing Nations Taste Test Genetically Modified Frankenfood

From the Philippines to Uganda and from rice to bananas, we may be in store for a synthetic agricultural future.READ»

Philippines Disaster Victims Get Drafted in UN Cash-for-Work Program

The World Food Programme is at it again, allowing workers to get paid via mobile for re-building their own homes and then cash in at banks...or pawnshops.READ»

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Wind Power: Poverty Reducer

The Asian Development Bank has granted $630,000 to conduct initial feasibility assessments for three proposed wind farms on the Philippines island of Luzon.READ»

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Genetically Modified Rice Causing a Scandal in the Philippines

A war between synthetic and organic is brewing in the Pacific.READ»

Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help

The World Monuments Fund has released its annual watch list of architectural and heritage sites desperately in need of preservation. Five are especially hard-hit from recent political and environmental events.READ»

Bamboo Taxis Arrive in Philippines Town

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The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

At the recent SXSW (or South by Southwest Conference), they recently held “the ultimate open source CMS showdown.” The format of the event was patterned after “Project Runway” and “The Iron Chef” reality shows where three teams of all-star Web developers were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using a single design concept (in this case provided by the award winning Mark Boulton Design studios) and project specification (a fictional nonprofit). Participants came from the camps of three of the best known and most widely used open source CMS projects out there: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.READ»

Making Money in Open Source

The folks over at Pingdom in their Royal Pingdom Blog have collected the financial information of some of the most popular open source software companies.READ»

Survive (and Thrive!) During these Tough Times with Open Source

Many business executives are looking for more ways to cut costs during these tough times and have a mandate to "do more with less." Open source software fits the bill perfectly as it has little or no upfront costs, licensing flexibility (often times you can install on as many PCs you want and for as much users as you need) , development flexibility (the source code and APIs can be customized, the platform and toolkits are readily available), and the fact that many open source projects actually have better and larger support communities than proprietary products.READ»

Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:READ»

Exonovation: Leveraging the Innovation of Others

A few weeks back I was invited to attend an executive briefing on open, collaborative, community-based innovation. The speaker was Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat. He titled his talk "Exonovation," to avoid the connotation the word "innovation", he says, has with internal organizational efforts at innovation. In his talk-he showed how organizations today (including his own company) are able to leverage the innovation of others to create sustainable competitive advantage that benefits not only themselves, but their community and industry ecosystem as a whole as well.READ»