Economy on Janik von Rotz

Hiking for Emails - Internet for the developing world

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:51:34 +0000

This video is a beautiful example of how internet access in remote areas improves the standards of health, education and prosperity. With the help from people all over the world Mahabir Pun has connected over 60.000 people to the world wide web.

This video is also a good example of how to bring the internet to the developing world. Google and Facebook have launched campaigns and programs to achieve such goal, however, the only allow certain access to websites for free. Which means, they are able to control the internet traffic and makes them a threat to the net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally.

Michio Kaku on solar revolution

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:08:48 +0000

For those who don’t know him, Michio Kaku is great speaker and scientist. Via http://bigthink.com/ he shares his big ideas about how things works and how the future looks like. Recently I really enjoyed his thoughts about the solar power revolution and it’s cause. You should definitely check it out!

The Human Cost of Electronics

Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:52:45 +0000

This evening I came along a short documentary that really touched me.

The following video reveals the real cost of our electronic products.

This makes me speechless

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:31:22 +0000