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Announcement of Crowdsourcing Week: Singapore April 2013

Trends in the Living Networks

The advisors will consult on program structure, conference content and deliver keynote addresses. Curating content spanning the areas of Science/Tech, Enterprise, Government/NGO & Citizen Journalism, Crowdfunding, Advertising, Marketing, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography, Tourism and Open Source. Best Practices.

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Blue Origin confirms it’ll give Star Trek captain William Shatner a suborbital space ride

GeekWire

Unlike the Starship Enterprise, the New Shepard rocket ship is designed to fly autonomously, with no controls built into the cabin. Thousands of postcards will be packed aboard the capsule for an outreach program created by the Club for the Future , Blue Origin’s educational nonprofit organization.

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Try before you fly: Orbite sets schedule for luxurious astronaut orientation sessions

GeekWire

Andrews and Orbite’s other co-founder, French-born tech entrepreneur Nicolas Gaume, have set the schedule for astronaut orientation courses that’ll include virtual-reality simulations, a zero-G flight and a high-G flight — all designed to provide a taste of space without tying the participant down to a particular program.

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Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon

GeekWire

Seven years ago, he and Poynter had a similar unveiling for World View Enterprises , an Arizona-based venture that aimed to fly people to an altitude of 100,000 feet, at a price of $75,000 a ticket. . “Good things take time,” MacCallum joked during an interview with GeekWire in advance of the big reveal.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network.

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The Hacker Mind: G-Men in Cyberspace

ForAllSecure

And then there are those that transition out of the FBI and go to work for private enterprise. So the vast majority of time we spent on the early days into cyberspace specialty care and tourism was how are they communicating? But what he did was very important and still a lot of mystery around what he actually did.