Author Archives: Jess H

Teams have been busy testing assumptions and business model concepts this week as we all get ready for our second round of village visits. Ben channeled Paul Hudnut again and led us through the process … More →

On Friday night, we celebrated all the hard work that has been going into building and testing our prototypes with an international potluck of grand proportions (or hippopotamus-elephant-whale proportions, as Timo would say). More than … More →

[In the interest of getting these posts up sooner rather than later, the plan is to have shorter blog entries covering the rest of the conference – but we do hope to try doing a … More →

[Sorry again for the long delay – as you may have guessed from our silence, we got caught up in a whirlwind of exciting activity during our final presentations and Maker Faire demonstrations. Most of … More →

At our last morning circle together before splitting off to different partner villages, Adutwumwaa led us in practicing some greetings in Twi and shared some Ghanaian culture with us. We listened to a story of … More →

[Apologies for the long delay in getting this post up! A couple of us had fallen ill with malaria, but we are fine now and ready to ramp up – blog updates should be coming … More →

We kicked off Friday with Eric sharing buckeyes from Ohio during opening circle, after having an unusually hearty breakfast. Mony from Cambodia ended up making one kilo of rice porridge for breakfast to share with … More →

We started the day bright and early with our morning opening circle, which is a space for us to come together as a group and share appreciations, teachings and learnings, announcements, challenges and solutions, hopes and … More →

IDDS 2011 has hit the ground running, and we’re moving at such a fast pace that we have hardly had any time to update this blog! So much has happened in the past few days, … More →