Today! Venezuela Innova: I Encuentro de Talento Venezolano

Date: Saturday (Today!), May 8th, 2010.

Time: 11 am – 9 pm

Location: CIEC-Universidad Metropolitana / Urbanización Terrazas del Ávila, Centro Rental de la Universidad Metropolitana, Edificio CIEC- Centro Internacional de Exposiciones de Caracas

Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge: “Innovate, Inspire, Conquer”

Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge is one of India’s better such student run competitions. Its is scheduled in August.

Conquest is a unique business event that helps transform ideas for into reality.Conquest is hosted by Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership of BITS Pilani Currently in its sixth edition, Conquest started as a business plan competition in 2004 and over time has grown into one of most eagerly awaited student entrepreneurship events in the India.
This year Conquest has evolved further it will not only feature the flagship business plan competition but will also host the Global Conference for Entrepreneurship-cells. Global Conference is an annual event supported by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). Apart from that Conquest will also host an Idea Café, a Startup Showcase and a host of other panel discussions and guest lectures delivered by some of the very best speakers in the world of entrepreneurship.
More about the Business Plan Challenge:
– Best business brains of the country on its mentoring panel.
– Best support system to its winners be it technical, financial or legal.
– Close to $200,000 as angel funding apart from a prize money of $6000.

“Innovate, Inspire, Conquer”

Deadline: The last date to submit your executive summaries to Conquest’s Business Plan Challenge is 17th April.

For more details check : www.celbits.org/conquest

A social enterprise in India delivering possibilities for deaf youth

“Mirakle Courier Company is courier company with a difference in Mumbai. We hire underprivileged deaf boys for pick-ups and drops and the sorting is done by deaf girls. In India people with different abilities have been discouraged for a long time as a result of this discrimination there is a strong sense in the minds that they are useless and not worthy of anything. I am just using the word “they” for reference, we are one team and there are no differences.

we will prove them wrong…” watch Mirakle’s website.

Source: Mirakle Curriers’s website

It is a for-profit organisation aiming to integrate deaf youth into the job market. Allocating the right person in the right place the company has been creating jobs and generating profit which will allow the business to expand and employ more people. A sustainable business that uses deaf’s skills which are often rejected by companies.

Playing for Change – Peace though music

Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race. And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it with the world.

“We can do a lot more for this world if we work together, than we ever can apart.”

Did you like it? Check out the website for more information and songs!

Giant !! For POSITIVE or NEGATIVE impact ??

Giant company = giant impact.

What is the impact that giant companies can cause in the environment?

Visiting a youth blog (one of those listed here on the right side) I found this video produced by the German energy company RWE which shows “it can be so easy to make BIG things happen once you are a GIANT”.

Isn’t it true ??

Then surfing on the internet and reading news I found this article about Google considering to align cost saving with sustainability using the natural motion of water. It might be not viable for now but as Rich Miller says in the article: “It’s really innovative, outside-the-box thinking.”.

Read it below:

Google search finds seafaring solution

Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”.

The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.

The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centres, which are sited across the world, including in Britain.

In the patent application seen by The Times, Google writes: “Computing centres are located on a ship or ships, anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away.”

The increasing number of data centres necessary to cope with the massive information flows generated on popular websites has prompted companies to look at radical ideas to reduce their running costs.

The supercomputers housed in the data centres, which can be the size of football pitches, use massive amounts of electricity to ensure they do not overheat. As a result the internet is not very green.

Data centres consumed 1 per cent of the world’s electricity in 2005. By 2020 the carbon footprint of the computers that run the internet will be larger than that of air travel, a recent study by McKinsey, a consultancy firm, and the Uptime Institute, a think tank, predicted.

In an attempt to address the problem, Microsoft has investigated building a data centre in the cold climes of Siberia, while in Japan the technology firm Sun Microsystems plans to send its computers down an abandoned coal mine, using water from the ground as a coolant. Sun said it could save $9 million (£5 million) of electricity costs a year and use half the power the data centre would have required if it was at ground level.

Technology experts said Google’s “computer navy” was an unexpected but clever solution. Rich Miller, the author of the datacentreknowledge.com blog, said: “It’s really innovative, outside-the-box thinking.”

Google refused to say how soon its barges could set sail. The company said: “We file patent applications on a variety of ideas. Some of those ideas later mature into real products, services or infrastructure, some don’t.”

Concerns have been raised about whether the barges could withstand an event such as a hurricane. Mr Miller said: “The huge question raised by this proposal is how to keep the barges safe.”

Further reading: Google cities progress on thermal solar

Google moves on plans to cheapen solar thermal