UgoTrade

(original photo by Tze Yang Kong)

My idea for a project called UgoTrade came out of my experience working on a proposal to bring ICT training centers to the Tibetan Communities in exile in Southern India.

I imagine a global internet reality/virtual reality where on grid folks - innovative technologists, social entrepreneurs, bloggers, 3D internet pioneers, and other www2 innovators will work together with off grid entrepreneurs to reinvent global trading and communication from the back of a yak, a canoe on the Amazon, and a houseboat in New Orleans. I hope that Dr Yunus’ Nobel Prize winning model of micro lending can extend to investment in local wireless communications to enable social entrepreneurs from all over the world, and the gurus of the digital democracy - 3D experience architects, bloggers, celebrities of online social media - to come together with off-grid entrepreneurs in pioneering projects and bring visibility to off grid communities.

Well this blog is my first step!

And, I am Tish Shute in “Real” Life and Tara5 Oh in Second Life

Thanks Noelani Lightfoot the proprietor of Quixotic Photography in Second Life  for taking this picture of me in my Tara5 form (see more of Noelani’s great work here).

And below are some pictures of me on a very exciting and happy day for me. I was helping the great director Sidney Pollack on a scene for his film the The Interpreter. The scene featured one of the people I admire most in this world - the world renowned Capoeira Angola Grand Master, Mestre Joao Grande

Thanks Sylvia for taking all these “behind the scenes” photos!