Kosovo
An archive of prablog.posterous.com, which is the original “Adventures in Innovations” I ran while I was in Kosovo, working as the Innovations Officer. During that time, I helped design and start up operations of the Innovations Lab Kosovo (http://kosovoinnovations.org)
BYFY Projects supported by the UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo
As I was making my portfolio, I had asked former colleagues at the UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo for a list of the BYFY[1] projects that were supported by the Lab, along with start and end dates, so I could articulate a bit better the projects the Lab has supported over time. I finally got around […]
Translating Ushahidi the Ushahidi Way (On crowd-sourced / collaborative translation)
At the Innovations Lab Design Center, we have been working on an Ushahidi-based project. We have been hacking it to our own ends (not crisis-related, and only vaguely crowd-sourced) in fun ways I’ll talk about next post, but I wanted to spend some…
Innovations Cafe #5, and Wikipedia-editing in the Classrooms of Kosovo
Developing the Albanian Wikipedia: Can the classroom help? After an unplanned six week hiatus (sorry!), I am back with a brief report from the last Innovations Cafe, and description of a WIkipedia-editing project that I find very interesting. Hope…
And the public library
It really impressed me how much the Dutch think about their public spaces. These pictures are from the Amsterdam public library; a tiny hint of the true awesomeness that lies within.
Innovations Lab, in action
The Innovations Lab space is now up and running! These pictures are from a presentation we did among staff et al. a couple of days ago; more up to date ones are on our facebook page (http://facebook.com/KosovoInnovations). The bean bags are excell…
Innovations cafe…
Yesterday we had the first of our bi-weekly ‘Innovations Cafe’s. Before the lab space is ready, this is how project members are able to connect with each other, get some face 2 face time with the lab staff, and give updates about their projects. A…
Designing the Innovations Lab Space
We had great results with a crowdsourced logo for the Innovations Lab (see http://facebook.com/kosovoinnovations for that!). So I thought I would at least put up the design of the Innovations Lab for feedback here. I asked for and got some great d…
Ideation at the Innovations Lab
We have now been through the first round of project proposal review at the Innovations Lab. When asked for feedback about the application process, we have been told that more support needs to be provided to projects before they submit proposals. W…
So… What is this Innovations Lab again?
After submitting a project proposal to the Innovations Lab (By Youth For Youth projects), a Kosovo youth (DR) asked: so what exactly is the Innovations Lab again? Since I have been trying to articulate it concisely, I felt I should share it on the…
The first set of proposals are in!
For the first round of Innovations Lab “By Youth For Youth” projects, we have the following proposals (in order of project submission): – Building an “electronic” library. This would be something between a cyber-cafe, a library, and a youth commun…