Last week, I traveled with my daughter and mother back to the country where I was born, Kenya.

Thanks to PopTech and Erik Hersman, co-founder of Ushahidi and the iHub Nairobi, we are working with innovators who are making stuff and making stuff happen at the heart of innovation in East Africa.

In early February, Alphachimp's Creative Director, Peter Durand, will be traveling to Kenya to participate in the PopTech Climate Resilience Lab.

For many of the world’s poorest communities, the adverse effects of climate change are no longer a future possibility; they are a present reality. The poverty, dislocation, health crises, resource conflicts, food scarcity and economic harm that climate change engenders threaten to undo many of the humanitarian gains of the past 30 years.

Hello everyone, it's Perrin Ireland reporting back from my recent trip to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the ScienceOnline2012 Conference.

Journalists, bloggers, scientists, science artists, advocates of open science, librarians, data specialists, and everyone in between showed up for the seventh year of this event. It's a really great community of people who support each other's work online disseminating high quality scientific information and commentary.

For this year's conference, I helped contribute part of the visual presence at the conference.

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In partnership with the cartoonist, Lloyd Dangle, we produced this Doodles in Motion video for our good friend, Prof. David Owens, as part of his book launch.

Everybody Wants Innovation—Or Do They?  Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks.

Publisher:  Jossey-Bass / Wiley

more:  http://creativepeoplemustbestopped.com

Esther in Norway wins the Alphachimp Academy Award for her interpretation of Braveheart, painting her face with pastels as she prepares for a scribe battle!

We have loved watching them all and finally had a chance today to sit down and comment on most of them. 

Here are some "behind the scenes" of the last two weeks here at Alphachimp Studio:

In October, Alphachimp Studio Managing Director, Diane Durand, traveled to Hawaii to attend the annual conference of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP.org).

This is her animated postcard created with an iPad and the application Brushes.

Music composed and performed by Don Henry.

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My favorite time of year... at my favorite event of the year... with my favorite group of young entrepreneurs: The PopTech Social Innovation Fellows.

This program helps equip these world-changing innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network that can help them scale their impacts to new heights. They are exposed to leading experts in communication, presentation design, design research, fundraising, operations and organizational design.