In April 2004, Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley start work on an initiative they call Kiva. Kiva is an online lending platform that allows individuals in the developed world to loan to small business people in the developing world. In its first year, the site featured a...
Few Things we learnt at Fred Harper KWS13 conference
“If you are not on Google…sorry you don’t exist”… This sentence underline the whole presentation of Fred Harper last year at KWS Montréal. The genius and talented Senior Tech evangelist at Mozilla insisted last year on the necessity to have...
Social Innovation : Is it a fad?
It all started with a questioning that we had last January about the social economy. Stopped by a newspaper article from LE DEVOIR, about social economies companies, it was asked if the social economy as a whole was a new...
The Panic button app from Amnisty International will protect human rights activits
Human rights activists in some of the world’s most repressive states will have improved access to assistance when facing the risk of attacks thanks to a smart, easy-to-use app launched by Amnesty International last May. “Panic Button”, a mobile app for...
Nadim Kobeissi wants to enhance Cryptocat for the happiness and safety of all
Last week I had the chance to meet Nadim Kobeissi, the brilliant programmer of Montreal, founder of the platform encrypted messaging Cryptocat. This platform has nearly 200,000 active users and allows users to have encrypted conversations. Indeed, with the many threats...
Rami Sayar Growth Hacking for Traditional Marketers
After his amazing talk at KWS13 last September at Concordia University, Rami Sayar the Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Canada will share his passion and knowledge during the technology for Good Week, through an interesting conference titled : “Growth Hacking for...
Technology in Africa: Taboo you should break
Bahiyah Robinson from APPFRICA will be in Montréal for the Technology for Good Week. She will attend two events (one at Ecole Polytechnique and the other one on Friday at Usine-C). Read the full agenda of the technology for good week...
Peter Chasse, President & Founder, The Water Project will attend the KWS14
La Conférence de Peter Chasse se tiendra en Anglais le 03 Octobre 2014 à l’Usine C dans le cadre de la semaine de la technologie et de l’innovation sociale. Peter Chasse is the Founder and President of The Water Project...
Saving the world with Bitcoin, A panel discussion with Peter Chasse
The KWS conference is already hard at work on this, and the second KWS event, as did the first, will be presented by a wide range of high level experts from key technology and social arenas. One of the key issues we...
Francis Pouliot, CEO, Bitcoin Foundation Canada has a something special to tell you
Francis Pouliot is one of the speaker of the Bitcoin Panel next october at Usine C. He is the CEO of the Bitcoin Foundation Canada, a non-profit pan-Canadian organization whose mission is to protect, promote and standardize the use of Bitcoin....