Arthur Grau IV
My Motivation:
Motivated by a belief that better communication and better collaboration will move us healthily through the challenges at hand.
My Super Powers:
Rubberband Flexibility, BS X-Ray Vision, Design Mind, Cooperation Expert
Recent Posts
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Learning in a Digital Age
Second Panel: Learning in a digital age, conference. Moderator: Wendy Lazarus, Founder Co-President, The Children’s Partnership Sara DeWitt: VP, PBS Kids Interactive Mandeep Dhillon: CEO. Togetherville Marian Merritt: Internet Safety Advocate, Symantec Joe Sullivan: CSO Facebook Catherine Teitelbaum: Director of Child Safety and Product Policy, Yahoo! What’s now/new in the digital spaces? It’s social, we ... more -
Internet usage by GDP
Here is an amazingly simple set of graphs that showing a comparison between gdp and connectivity…. Nicely done http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/tag/ict4d-statistics/ ... more -
Chrome developers meet up
Chrome Developers Meetup Attending the Santa Clara meetup for the Google Chrome Web Store Marketplace. Of 50+ people there is one woman. All web apps developed for chrome browser will be native when chrome OS is released. A paid model allows developers to create apps for purchase. App creators will be able to create their ... more -
Project Noah App
September 16, 2010
Aneesh Chopra, White House Chief Technology Officer, presented the $50,000 Breakthroughs in Mobile Learning award to the team from Networked Organisms and Habitats (NOAH). Their product helps children (and adults) use science and technology skills as they learn about local wildlife and contribute to a network of organizations working to catalog and preserve our planet’s ... more -
Tax Credit Calculator
September 15, 2010
MyTaxBack is delivered to users by the Social Innovation Lab. Building on the success of MyFreeTaxes.com, it will put more money in pockets of many low income people who are unaware of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Of eligible taxpayers, 20% do not file their taxes, thereby missing out on an average $1500 credit. ... more -
K-factor and the new Madison Avenue
August 16, 2010
A few weeks back while indulging in an episode of Mad Men (AMC’s series about Madison Avenue advertisers in the 1960′s) I started to wonder how the advertising theory born there relates to game theory as is now being born in the labs and bedrooms of game and app designers around the world. On a ... more -
Increasing access the financial mainstream
August 14, 2010
Banked vs. Unbanked Jose Cisneros SF city treasurer speaking about the banked vs the unbanked at the Craigslist Bootcamp at Berkeley. “City partnered with 3/4′s of the banks in SF to agree to set affordable bank accounts through “Bank on San Francisco”. There were 70k unbanked people. The population of SF is 700,000+-. Story of ... more -
If I ran the world
Cindy Gallup speaking on her web portal “If we ran the world”. Different from other cause websites that bombard you with causes, problems, while her site starts with one simple question. The site leverages competitive collaboration in a game like process. ... more
