Engineering4Change

Engineering for Change is an online environment bringing together engineers and other problem solvers with NGOs and local communities to address basic quality of life issues such as access to clean water, electricity and proper sanitation. Also see their Twitter feed Related: + Engineers Without Borders + Architecture4Humanity + Open Architecture Network + Entrepreneurial Design …

Reflections from Tom Atlee–We Beg One and All to Read and Contribute-and Join Us in Louiseville!

Phi Beta Iota: We beg one and all to read this and to contribute to the Co-Intelligence Institute whatever they can, be it $20 or $250 (our founder’s usual contribution).  Tom Atlee brought collective intelligence and public intelligence to where it is today.  America–and the world–need him vibrant and engaged.  PLEASE do what you can …

Review (Guest): The New Social Learning–A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

Phi Beta Iota: two reviews are provided, one from the blogsphere (Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn, and one from Amazon.  If not obvious, this new trend in organizational learning assures that “secret” organizations will get dumber and dumber as time goes by. Authors:  Tony Bingham and Marcia Connor I (Bill Ives) …

Undersea Cable Ships, Cables, & the People that Help Facilitate the Global Internet

Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship September 5, 2010 The Ile de Batz is one of three dedicated ships that Alcatel-Lucent uses to lay the submarine fiber-optic cables that carry broadband connectivity across the oceans. The ship is usually based in Calais, France, but made a stop recently in Greenwich, England, to pick up components …