Blog frogs on the road
By Hannah Regier - December 21, 2010
On December 12 & 13 I joined a group of 10 speakers and 40 participants for the TEDx Kumaun conference. We met in a remote Himalayan village to discuss and share knowledge on the major social issues facing India today. The event was organized by CHIRAG (Central Himalayan Rural Action Group) and hosted at the Himalayan Village Sonapani. For a foreigner trying to absorb as much as I can about India, it was a crash course in politics and social programs. The conference focused on the tension between India's economic growth and the enormity of its problems relating to poverty, poor healthcare, low quality education, lack of food, pollution and rampant corruption.
Blog frogs on the road
By Jon Kolko - July 7, 2010
Blog Amphibious
By Adam Richardson - November 10, 2009
Blog TEDGlobal
By Various frogs - July 22, 2009
He was the much buzzed-about surprise guest at TEDGlobal yesterday, and for someone who is often accused of lacking any charisma, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was surprisingly charismatic. The big global issues are obviously his most comfortable domain, and he delivered an engaging speech on the collective social power (and responsibility) of the inter-connected "global village."
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - April 4, 2009
Design is not the answer to everything but it certainly has an important role to play in almost everything that holds a society together. In light of the current economic crisis, several U.S. professional design organizations (AIGA, IDSA, and others), design education accreditation organizations, and Federal Government officials have seized the historic opportunity and joined forces to launch an initiative to shape a U.S. National Design Policy.
Blog frogs on the road
By Various frogs - March 14, 2009
I’ve never heard Lawrence Lessig speak, but I’ve enjoyed his blog and his public thoughts for a while. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but damn, does he have a way of saying it. His presentation at SXSW today was passionate and inspiring, and certainly thought-provoking.
Blog Gone to Market
By Marc Fenigstein - March 4, 2009
As GM and Chrysler come back for more soup and our political system consideres not if but how we will refill their bowls (again), I am boiling with rage. Not the rage already expressed publicly by thousands and felt by millions that these companies are failures that produced the wrong products, poorly and inefficiently, and because they couldn’t sell them to us willfully are now snatching our wallets in a back alley. Nope, I feel that rage too, but this rage is that all three of them have the audacity to collude, to form an effective monopoly, to hold the American public hostage and our political system allows it because we don’t think of them as individual companies we think of them as the storied American Auto Industry. It’s an interesting take on pride in the American Auto Industry that we’re actually enabling them to continue to sully a 60 year tradition of the best automobiles in the world. It is time to shift our thinking. It is also time to let them fail.
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - February 19, 2009
Ready for the summit: frog meets Federal Republic of Germany
frog was invited to participate in a half-day expert workshop hosted by the German Federal Chancellery, dedicated to the theme “Next Generation Germany – Welfare and Quality of Living. Possible Trends in the Next Two Decades,” yesterday in Berlin. The workshop was part of a series of expert hearings designed to pursue an interdisciplinary dialogue between different sectors in society.
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - December 23, 2008
Blog frogs on the road
By Various frogs - October 16, 2008
Holy hoodwink Batman! Who IS behind that mask? In this clip from the classic 1966-68 series, Batman, Penguin is trying every transparent trick in the book to deceive voters, and make them see the "real" man (a terrorist!) behind the mask of the caped crusader as they debate on television. Are you having déjà vu too?
