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Archive for the ‘Hub World’ Category

Brazils Presidential Cadidates meet Social Entrepreneurs in Hub Sao Paolo

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Yesterday Hub Sao Paolo had the pleasure to host in partnership with Endeavor the first of three debates with the presidential candidates about entrepreneurship. Hub Sao Paolo had the most recognized social and business enreeprenreurs interacting and coming together for a few hours around the topic.

Thoughts on Conferencing, the Dissemination of Information, and the False Appearance of Interconnectivity

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Blogs, inboxes, social bookmarks, search engines, Youtube channels: it seems as though there are so many means of archiving information available that it would be more than mere folly to leave it unused but actually backward. Thus live shared experiences like conferences are increasingly archived and left for public perusal – transforming the live experience into more than just a period of interaction but also the creation of a library in real-time. Aside from putting a bit more pressure on speakers, it also puts our ideas into perspective and makes each uttered word that much more valuable – because it isn’t just being shared with physically present peers but also an invisible audience of incalculable amount.

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Connecting Social Innovation 2010

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

CoSI10 - Connecting Social Innovation 2010 UnConference Series for Social EntrepreneursThe Hub Brussels’ next big project is to host one of the CoSI10 UnConferences that will be taking place worldwide throughout the year.

In short, CoSI10 is a webbed, global event series that aims to archive the knowledge gathered, and to raise funds for the most promising projects that come out of our pitching sessions.

The first Hub Hosted event will take place at the Hub Brussels from Friday, 10 September  to Sunday, 12 September 2010. For more information on the event structure look at our Event Flow and see the explanations of the format on the CoSI10 website. Visit the Brussels event page for tips on where to stay and how to get to the Hub.

Early Registration Price  for Brussels event: €58 Hub Members | €68 Non-Members

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Be part of it !

Monday, June 7th, 2010

livreThe Hub Milan is developing a project with an Italian writer and radio presenter, Marco Liorni, who is interested in writing a book about Hubbers and their world-changing personal and professional stories.

Marco Liorni goes live every day on RDS (one of Italy’s most popular radio broadcasting networks), after seven years spent working in TV. Marco is the author of an instant book titled “Facebook. All in the vortex”, about the world’s most famous social network, published in Italy with good success. (more…)

Music for Deaf People

Monday, May 31st, 2010
Design for Music Player for the Deaf

Design for Music Player for the Deaf

The most common assumption one would have is that deaf people are unable to enjoy music. However, technically speaking, deaf people can feel music through the fact that:

Deaf people sense vibration in the part of the brain that other people use for hearing – which helps explain how deaf musicians can sense music, and how deaf people can enjoy concerts and other musical events.

- Source Science Daily

The most beautiful and surprising aspect of this research shows that:

Researchers at Ryerson University designed a chair that transmits musical vibrations along the back, turning sound into a sort of multi-sensory cheesecake. One person described it like this: “The first time I used the chair, I was blown away by the amount of information I could get about music from the vibrations. For the first time in my life, I could feel sad or happy because of how the music vibrations felt on my skin. I never felt those kinds of feelings before when music was played.”

Therefore, German designer Frederik Podzuweit has conceptually designed a collar that would provide the same musical satisfaction to a deaf person as a set of headphones. He sounds like quality Hub material. The source article has more information on the technicalities of the device, very intriguing read.

The Lending Merry-Go-Round

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Australian satirists explain the current economic crisis and laugh in the face of impending misery:

EU rewards innovation

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The EU regional ’stars’ awards took place on the 21st May. This award ceremony is an annual event with varying focus, and this year the focus was accessibility to mobile technology in rural areas, integration of migrants and a few other key areas.

The CityStar winners were the C-Mine Centre in Belgium, a former industrial site turned entrepreneur and visitor hub, and the Micro-Finance Institute in Sweden, a project aimed at helping migrant women get access to finance for business ventures.

ICT awards were given to the Langas j Ateitj alliance in Lithuania, which provides training courses to improve computer literacy skills, the French region of Auvergne for its high-speed broadband coverage, and a telemedicine project in Germany designed to reduce hospital admissions.

Read More on Euroactiv

Donderdag, Veggiedag – Thursdays Veggiedays

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Soy-whey-protein-dietThe fantastical university town of Ghent in East Flanders started up the tradition of Thursdays being an official Vegetarian day last year around this time. They celebrated the birthdate of this event on the 6th of May. So far schools have taken on the practice as well as households, hospitals, retirement homes and restaurants. Now the practice has spread to Hasselt, Cape Town, San Francisco and Sao Paulo. Not bad at all. Not only is it healthy to have a vegetarian day of the week but it’s also great for the planet. Perhaps you could take up Thursday Veggieday as a household practice too? For more on the topic (get your Dutch-reading glasses on for this one) here’s an article on www.Gent.be

UK’s Hung Parliament Explained

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Here is a video explaining the current situation in the UK in very simple terms:

Hub Brussels Mention

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Our friends over at Evolutionize It have been making our ears ring due to this blog post.

About Evolutionize it:

Evolutionize It, ASBL is a Belgian based social enterprise founded in 2010, that facilitates collaboration in the local and global social change sector.

We study the challenges faced by early-stage social entrepreneurs in working together, and help co-create systems that can make meaningful, viable collaboration among more players in the social change space happen.