PopTech: Nicole Stubbs
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Nicole Stubbs. Learn how Nicole is reducing lending and borrowing costs across the developing world through cloud technology by aggregating big data and producing recommendations about […]
PopTech; Miriah Meyer
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Miriah Meyer. Miriah explains how data visualization can be more concise, practical and scientifically useful, and still be aesthetically pleasing. ‘In data visualization, what we really […]
PopTech: Jessica Richman
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Jessica Richman. Jessica shares the importance of crowdsourcing scientific research, such as to explore the human microbiome. ‘Citizen science is the process of involving the public […]
PopTech: Jan-Emmanuel
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Jan-Emmanuel De Neve. Jan-Emmanuel shares some data that suggest some interesting ways to incentivize people to pay their taxes. ‘If we can make the tax form […]
PopTech: Nathaniel Raymond
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Nathaniel Raymond. Watch Nathaniel argue passionately that information during a disaster should be protected under international law and human rights standards just like food, water, medicine […]
PopTech: Jason Hong
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Jason Hong. Jason shares his work on the leading edge of the balance between the next wave of mobile phone technologies and privacy concerns. ‘In the […]
PopTech: Prabhjot Singh
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Prabhjot Singh. Prabhjot has scaled up networks of front-line health workers across sub-Saharan Africa. He discusses his work bringing this health care model to Harlem to […]
PopTech: Jonathan Wilker
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Jonathan Wilker. Jonathan shows how adhesives derived from animals, like barnacles, might one day be used in medicine. ‘Wouldn’t it be better if we could just […]
PopTech: Alex Hornstein
PopTech’s 2013 conference presents Alex Hornstein. Alex says that simple systems that use mostly existing infrastructure can power rural homes that lack electricity. ‘What I’m interested in is how to […]
Schumacher Center for New Economics – Excerpts from Bren Smith’s Lecture
Heir to the Legacy programs of the E. F. Schumacher Society, our mission is to educate the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet.