good tech

appropriate tech

• appropedia.org
• Gaviotas community has done numerous, interesting, appropriate technologies
• zeer pot
• biomass charcoal
• mit d-lab
• innovation-in-africa-tips
• using-constraint-to-design-for-innovation
• legatum tech prize
• spin farming
• ideo's human-centered-design-toolkit

interesting tech

• http://www.plasticlogic.com/ - epaper
• Stanford Captology - Persuasive Technology Center
• UC Berkeley Tier Lab - Systems research for the developing world (Tier 2008 Workshop)
• kamen water processing system
• LightUpTheWorld - home LED light for developing world and product folks like bogolight (luminous efficacy)
• praekeltfoundation.org - cell phones for social good
• Nokia cellphone as reading machine
• AirCar
• dimagi: tools for monitioring health like the smartcare project
• voxiva: phone as a platform for information management
• earthship: passive solar houses made from recycled materials
• ushahidi - crowdsourcing crisis information
• ideo.human-centered-design-toolkit
• sustainable fridge

power

• http://www.lebone.org/ - microbe micro power
• Wind
• Photovoltaic: lots of folks doing new solar things which is very promising. But so far, there is nothing that the average consumer can purchase. Maybe in the next 2 years?
• Other solar: coolearthsolar
• Micro hydro: with information from microhydropower.net and microhydropower.com
• Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)

transparency

• freebase & open-government
• information markets in philanthropy

Techie Folks

• geekcorps
• tagtech.org
• nten.org - technology folks
• netsquared.org - web 2.0
• aspirationtech.org and http://nosi.net project
• socialsourcecommons.org
• civil society it (british rag)
• afrigadget
• new-to-nonprofit-technology-brief
• digitaldividedata.org