This studio investigates the effects of digitalization on architectural typology and the contemporary city. In our first year 2006/07, we examine the changes of one particular typology: the architecture of banking. We question the fundamental concept of what a bank is today, and develop architectural strategies for its potential futures.

Social Entrepreneur data discovery platform (US). Uses social networking diagrams to discover areas of overlap among social enterprise entities, both for profit and non-profit

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 aKos Technology Corporation is the pioneering force behind the emergence of mobile remittances. By marrying wireless services and money-transfer technology, we enable wireless carriers to offer remittance services to their subscribers. As a result, individuals can send money internationally from their mobile phone and recipients can receive those funds in cash at merchants they already frequent. Now, wireless carriers can take part in the multi-billion dollar global remittance market.

by Claus Lehmann

NZ Extracted from site Have an idea? Just need funding? Want to join with others to support to an idea? This site is for you.

The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.

Discover organization relations
Make more strategic donations
Promote more financial transparancy between different forms of (related) organizations

The motivation behind Donorge is to grow the ability to transparently support ideas and creation, either localized or connected around the world. What is supported inside Donorge is what you support and what in turn those ideas and creations you support support. This allows for there being more transparency and potential effectiveness at the resource layer of organizations and their voluntary contributed resources.

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Know where
your money goes!

Effortlessly track and visualize your spending.
Visualize those dreadful credit card statements in
exciting new ways.

Social Entrepreneur data discovery platform (US). Uses social networking diagrams to discover areas of overlap among social enterprise entities, both for profit and non-profit

ES

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Advantages:

• Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust middlemen.
• Transactions are designed to be irreversible.
• Be safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Bitcoin system’s money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.

Bitcoin is an open source project currently in beta development stage. Development is hosted at SourceForge.

by Claus Lehmann

NZ Extracted from site Have an idea? Just need funding? Want to join with others to support to an idea? This site is for you.

The UpDown plans to single out the members whose imaginary portfolios show the best performance and use their strategies to manage a real stock fund seeded by Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss.

Revenues from the fund will be used to operate the company and reward the top performers.