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Today, with an investment of $300,000, you can develop smart phones under your own brand – simply follow these steps: Bring your design to Shenzhen; find a factory to produce it; sign an order for 10,000 sets of phones at a price of $30 per set.
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Ezio Manzini: "There is an urgent need to promote neweconomic models, new production systemsand new ideas of well-being. To define andimplement these new models is, of course,very difficult. But it is not impossible. And wedo not have to start from zero. Indeed, over the last few decades, amultiplicity of social “actors” (including institutions,ent...
Ezio Manzini: "These three examples of a new kind of relationship betweenfarmers and citizens and between food and agricultureare emblematic of a larger wave of social innovation3 thatis taking place around the world. Not only are we seeing anew way of eating emerging, a new relationship betweenproduction and consumption and between the city and th...
Sustainable Everyday Project http://www.sustainable-everyday.net and DESIS, http://www.desis-network.org ; SEP, http://www.sustainable-everyday.net.E.F Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered (London: Blond and Briggs, 1973).Francois Jegou and Ezio Manzini, Collaborative Services: Social innovation and design for sustainability, (Milano: Polidesign,Ainonghui, Farmers’ association, Liuzhou, Guangxi
"In 2005, in Liuzhou, Guangxi (China), a group of citizensfound that they could not access good, safe food in theordinary markets. They went to some villages, about atwo hour drive from the city, and found that traditionalagriculture models, though struggling, still survived inthe remote countryside. With the intention of helpingthe poor farmers and developing a stable channel ofgood, organic food, they found a social enterprise,Ainonghui. Today, this farmers’ association manages four organic...
Little Donkey Farm, Beijing, China
"Started in 2008, Little Donkey Farm is China’s firstcommunity-supported agricultural model. Locatedin a suburb of Beijing, about two hours drive fromthe city centre, the farm has, to date, 200 memberswho share the farm activities and 400 members whosubscribe to a weekly home delivery of a box of farmproduce. Already, the farm is the hub of an innovativefood network in Beijing with increasing numbers of eco-friendly and organic farms joining. The ultimate goal is to turn Little Donkey Farm in...
Hansalim, South Korea
"Launched in 1986, Hansalim is a Korean foodcooperative. As of August 2010, it boasts 2,302,000consumers and 2000 producers from 19 differentregions in South Korea. 2009 sales amounted to €100million. Hansalim (Korean for “save all living things”), aims topreserve the ecosystem while rebuilding communitieswhere producers and consumers are connected. Inan effort to support sustainable agriculture, 76% ofthe sales goes to producers and the balance is ear-marked as the cooperative’s operating co...
Reviews five theories on the origins of the state form ; "part of his lecture series entitled, "Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From." One of the comments reads: "Prof. Fukuyama has impressive grasp on Chinese history and sociological understanding on China." Contents. TIMELINE via [1]
ISV's are concentrating their investment and their innovation on higher-level customer-facing products while open source provides the legacy backend of the software stack. - So the term "legacy infrastructure" places successful open source software into its commercial, historical and IT engineering context. The rule is not universally true, of ...
