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websites, companies, foundations,
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by Michael North



"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood
or assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for
the endless immensity of the sea."

-- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Professional Bio

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The Bridge:
Peace and Understanding between
America and China


Zhou Enlai Peace Institute:

recognizing the life and achievements
of a hero of modern China


Greenstar
Solar-Powered Community Center

Sessions with Interactivist, Grist Magazine
"gloom and doom with a sense of humor"
interview || Q&A forum

Interview with Government Technology International

Digital Culture || E-Philanthropy
Sweatshops and Butterflies

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North Communications
pioneers in multmedia touchscreen networks

The 21st Century ATM

Fritz Perlberg Memorial

Jamie Gallo:
great music, live from Hank's Honolulu 

Liberty Hill Foundation

Locations of visitors to this page

The difference between a dog and a human is that,
when you point, a dog looks at the tip of your finger.
A human looks in the direction you point.

paraphrased from Nick Negroponte, 1998

"Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human...you share what you have. It is to say 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life. We say, 'a person is a person through other persons....I am human because I belong...because I participate, I share...a person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self assurance....and belongs in a greater whole..."
Bishop Desmond Tutu


"If you have some power, your job is to empower somebody else."
Toni Morrison


"I did not know what was inside me or how I could redeem what was hidden there...There are few takers for the quiet heart."
Steve Martin

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
Maori proverb

Dancers from Iona, in rehearsal for Electric Blue