In case you haven't noticed, I'm catching up on my readings. Stonewall, whom I've mentioned before in several posts, sent me Flood, famine and mobile phones. It's a worthwhile read. It got my attention because (as I wrote previously) I'm writing about big questions and this seemed to fit in well with that theme. Also, I've written about community response grids in Nothing New Under the Sun: Community Response Grids and Community Response Grids, Another Example and this link from Stonewall seemed to fit in very well when you consider one (I think) important point.
The gentleman mentioned in Stonewall's link, Mohammed Sokor, is relying on the power of The Village to achieve a goal. This, to me, is proof you don't need a lot of money in order to answer a question.
More amusingly, you can think of Mohammed Sokor as the ultimate entrepreneur. Lots of money was spent to answer some questions, none of which were Mr. Sokor's question, and he's using the answers to those other questions to answer his question. One of the things you learn about entrepreneurship is to always use somebody else's money, never your own.
One of the things I learned is to use available technology to create your solutions, never create technology specifically to create another technology (kind of "if you have to build a special machine to make an end product, you've doubled your production costs"). Using available technology to create a solution is known as second-order tool use and comes from second order thinking.
Mr. Sokor is ahead of me by one. I've got to learn how to catch up. Way to go, Mo'.
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