Philippines

Five Endangered Cultural Monuments That Need Your Help

Alissa Walker — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:05:27 -0400

Since 1966 the World Monuments Fund has published a Watch List that includes cultural sites in danger of being demolished or permanently damaged due to encroaching development or environmental disasters. A total of 93 sites have now been denoted "at risk," but here's the good news: The attention brought to them through these efforts often helps to rally preservation and stewardship groups around the monuments. From the 2010 list, here are five that we think need the most help due to recent events.

Bamboo Taxis Arrive in Philippines Town

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:18:51 -0400

The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

Jan Pabellon — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:18:58 -0400

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

Making Money in Open Source

Jan Pabellon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:21:23 -0500

No surprise that it is only Red Hat so far that has had runaway success with a business model purely around open source. They are a publicly listed company, and in a partner event I attended last year, made a big deal about the fact that their revenues have been consistenly growing year on year and are well over US $500 million (and if their growth continues, will join the mythical billion dollar club of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle soon if they are not acquired or bought out first along the way).

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

Jan Pabellon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:15:29 -0500

This year may actually be a turning point in the adoption of open source software as projects steadily mature (think Linux and MySQL) and interest among corporate users grow. According to a report released by research firm Gartner in November of last year, the adoption of open source software is becoming pervasive among large multinational organizations.

Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Jan Pabellon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:12:22 -0500

In Malaysia, open source software adoption is set to experience a steady growth in Malaysia, this accoding to Daniel Ng (an affable and lively guy I met at a partner conference), Director for Marketing at Red Hat Asia Pacific said. He was there recently with Michael Tiemann (whom I also met at a conference), Vice President for Global Open Source Affairs from Red Hat.

Exonovation: Leveraging the Innovation of Others

Jan Pabellon — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:09:49 -0500

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.

Mercy Corps: The Bank of Banks

Jennifer Vilaga — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:18 -0500

In Indonesia, where 110 million people live on less than $2 a day, microfinance is a crowded, fractured field: More than 50,000 microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate there, reaching 50 million poor people. But what about the rest? The Oregon-based antipoverty group Mercy Corps ventured a bold answer in May, when it bought a struggling Balinese bank and reopened it as a wholesale outfit exclusively serving MFIs.