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Estoy intentando cambiarme a Wordpress.
This will be my new blog site.

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Hiriko in Ecuador, Amsterdam and Singapore

Last week we had the opportunity to present the Hiriko Driving Mobility Project in Ecuador. The Minister for the Environment, Marcela Aguiñaga (spotted in the picture) offered us a warm welcome, setting up a meeting with Fabian Zapata, the President of the Galapagos Island Government Council. It was the first contact but they are very interested in becoming an active member of Mobility on Demand Global Program. We also had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Paez the Director of Mobility in Quito and several other university and senior public officials. Recently, Hiriko has also been presented at SOCAP in Amsterdam and directly to Penny Low, the leading social innovation force in Singapore.

Paco en el Bulli

Esta es una foto que ha publicado The Guardian en un reportaje sobre los últimos días de El Bulli antes de su transformación en un centro de I+D. El que más controla de la cocina, (el segundo de la parte inferior izquierda) es nuestro super cuñado Paco Mesa. Después de conquistar el Santuario de Arantzazu, Arzak y The Fat Duck ahora le toca al Bulli.

The Global Innovation Academy

The Young Foundation has published this newsletter about the "Global Innovation Academy". All the communications and case studies presented at the first Bilbao pathfinder workshop are included.

Elkarrizketa Argia aldizkarian

Hau da Argia aldizakarirako egin dudan elkarrizketa. Eskerrik asko "Pluja Seca" dokumentalaren proiekzio guztietara joan zaretenoi.

Saiatu en el Diario Vasco

El Diario Vasco ha publicado un extenso artículo sobre el proyecto Saiatu. Esperemos que sirva para darlo a conocer y que pueda pasar de la fase piloto a la de consolidación. Zorionak!

"Dying for a change" en castellano

Muriendo por un cambio

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Hiriko in Silicon Valley

Thanks to our wonderful partners in San Francisco, Fariba Rezvani (Far Link, llc) and Miguel Valls (BSP), Hiriko was able to discuss with San Francisco top officials the posibility of incorporating this vibrant city into the Mobility on Demand Global project. We also had the privilege to present the project to Steve Westley, one of the top venture capitalists at Silicon Valley. Apart from being the former California Chief Financial Officer and an advisor to Obama, Steve has been one of the key investors at TESLA.

Saiatu Euskadi Irratian

Bidean diren proiektu berriek izan dute mintzagai osteguneko "Mezularia"n. Saiaturen zatia 22garren minutuan aurkitu daiteke. Zorionak talde osoari!

Lessons in social enterprise from the Basque country

Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian´s Social Affairs Editor has recently published this article about Hiriko and Bilbao´s Social Innovation Park. This newspaper was the first one to write about this project in 2009.

Global Thanks!

We have had the privilege to host during the last few days the Inaugural Pathfinder seminar of the Global Innovation Academy. I want to say thank you to the Young Foundation team (Andrea Coleman, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Chynthia Shanmugalingam, Louise Pulford and Robert Patrick), to the amazing guest speakers: Charlie Leadbeater, Bryan Boyer, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Will Lark, Antonio Cancelo and specially to the participants: Sacha Van Togeren, Sabine Wildevuur, Daniela Deuber, Eva Engquist, Girish Muzumdar, Frank Boystin, Jacqueline Loh, Jacob Urup Nielsen, Jussi Sorsimo, Peter Fredriksson, Karl Mallin, Laura Bunt, Ricard Valls, Miquel Miró, Javier Martin Cavanna, Juho-Kusti Kahander, Andrew Barnett, Roberto Nuño, Naiara Artaza, Alfonso Martinez Cearra and Ziortza Etxabe.

Your comments and proposals will make our projects stronger. I really hope it was also interesting and useful for all of you.

The Global Innovation Academy in Bilbao

The Global Innovation Academy is a new and pioneering initiative of the Young Foundation developed in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation and many others around the world in the social innovation field. Its mission is to provide unique learning experiences to public servants, NGOs, foundations and businesses, in order to support the spread of effective social innovation methods that can tackle the most pressing global issues we face. The programme will be co-hosted by DenokInn, the Basque centre for innovation, entrepreneurship and new business development.

During an intensive three-day programme, participants will be immersed in a highly collaborative learning journey, designed to enable you to adapt and implement cutting-edge methods of social innovation in your respective contexts.

The programme will explore:

• How are practitioners and policy makers around the world applying promising new ideas to tackle ageing and care?
• How can we design policy so that social impact bonds can be applied in different contexts and to different problems?
• Where are the trends in social innovation now – and in the future?

Programme faculty include Geoff Mulgan—former head of policy to Prime Minister Tony Blair and Director of the Young Foundation; and Charlie Leadbeater— a leading authority on innovation and creativity.

Global Innovation Academy, SIX and the City

Saiatu. Cuidados Paliativos en el domicilio

Este es el folleto que explica las características del nuevo servicio gratuito de cuidados paliativos en el domicilio promovido desde el proyecto Saiatu.

Saiatu. Cuidados Paliativos en el domicilio

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Greg is the best!

Aquí está nuestro compañero Greg (en la parte izquierda de la primera fila) codeándose con las más altas autoridades de Bizkaia y talentos de todo el mundo reunidos en torno al programa Bizkaia Xede. Además de coordinar el Fab Lab, está todos los jueves en la sala de inmersión de Eutokia.

Hiriko updated presentation

Hiriko presentation 2 11

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Naomi presenta el proyecto Saiatu

Julio habla de comunicación

Jesús explica los cuidados paliativos

Hiriko in San Francisco

A delegation from Hiriko led by MIT-Media Lab professor Kent Larson will present Hiriko at "Green Global Cities" conference organized by The London School of Economics tomorrow, 24 February 2011. The Mayor of San Francisco, Calgary, San José, Incheon Metropolitan City (Korea) and the Deputy Major of Paris among others will have the opportunity to know more about the first self folding electric vehicle. Thanks to MIT Industrial Liaison Program and local friends like Miguel Valls and Fariba Rezvani, we are also meeting with Google and San Francisco Metropolitan authorities.