Hole in The Wall Initiative.

Normally I focus more on the travel/backpacking/Lifestyle subjects.
But from time to time I talk about other subjects.



Today I want to talk about one interesting initiative. The Hole-in-the-Wall initiative is basically trying to bring computer access to the poor children.

In the meantime, the aim is to help children to acquire new knowledge just by playing on computers without any external supervision.


What is interesting is that the computer is basically embedded in a wall and there is absolutely no restriction to the access.

The idea is that children will naturally learn, driven by their curiosity.


It's quite a counter-intuitive idea and the first time I heard about it I was thinking :" Whats the point".


The essay, which came as a part of my assignment in my ICT (Information and communication technologies) course, is exploring that initiative in the context of e-learning.



Feel free to read it (click on this link for a full screen version) and comment.





You can download the full version as a PDF or as a Word document.

The document is under the creative common licensing, which means that you can reused it as long as you explicitly mention the author (that would be me). If you can also link to this blog, its even better :)

Knowledge sourcing: Daimler-Benz (case study)

I've been working for two weeks like mad.

One of the subject I've been working on a case study related to knowledge sourcing in Daimler-Benz.


The presentation was for the Management of Innovation class.

The case describes how the R&D departement was organised as in 1997.

It is a very interesting case bacause as a multinational company, the R&T department is quite big


We can see how Daimler-Benz have adressed the common issues regarding the management of innovation and knowledge sourcing in a technology driven industries.

The second part on the management of international R&T sites is also very interesting.

The mechanisms set up to make sure that they monitor the latest information on all the automobile related technologies and that the knowledge acquired flows within the company.


The presentation is visible below. As a presentation, it realises its full potential with the comments of those who have made it.

But since the actual presentation was not recorded, you will just have the raw data, though well structured.


I want to thanks Somchai who was my partner on this presentation.

He will present our work to his boss in his company. Apparently the lessons we learned are very likely to help him at his work and even lead to the implementation of some new ideas. I'm very glad to see that the result of our work has an outcome applicable to real company.






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