Playing catchup

I hope to get a couple of posts up tomorrow but in the meantime, here are some links of things that caught my eye over this past weekend.

One Network came about as a result of an analysis of the movement of people across borders. The company saw where people were moving and addressed a product to benefit them directly because across Africa many of the borders – the colonial boundaries – do not really mark the way people live. Lots of ethnic groups live across borders and they move freely within their communities [across borders]. The concept underlying One Network is that a customer in one country is a customer everywhere. So you stay with your home network wherever you move across Africa… ~ article on Zain (Celtel)'s ONE Network strategy in Africa

Timbuktu Chronicles links to a video on Discovery Channel about the HoneyBee network, Dr Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad's initiative to discover and identify rural innovators across India.

design methods for everyone by john chris jones, brought to my attention by Victor Lombardi via Twitter - I really should get this up on Core77 as well, its a good read.

The Alfred Herrhausen Society, the international forum of Deutsche Bank, is organizing a new project entitled Foresight in order to analyze and compare the future visions of emerging and existing world powers. Through discussion and debate, it hopes to find elements for a common future. The inaugural event held in Moscow brought together participants from Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, India, Russia, the United States and other parts of the world to discuss Russia’s role in a multipolar world. Further symposia are planned in the United States after the presidential elections, Europe, Japan, India, China, and Latin America. These events will also include high-level participants from Africa, the Arab world, and the Asia Pacific countries. One of the main goals of this series is to see the world through the eyes of others, rather than through a purely Eastern or Western lens. via Der Spiegel

New discoveries of Aboriginal rock art in Australia rewrite history from a different angle. ~ The Independent