My presentation from TEDxDhaka, held on September 22, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. See www.tedxdhaka.com for further details on the event

1. Do-It-Yourself
in the
Internet Era
Change Everything Starting from Yourself
Nash Islam
TEDxDhaka 2012

2. The Story of
William Kamkwamba's Windmill
Malawi

3. Source: William Kamkwamba Interview, The Daily Show, Comedy Central, 2009

4. Source: William Kamkwamba's blog,
http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2009/10/page/3/

5. Source: Wikimedia Commons, William Kamkwamba's old windmill

6. "Where was this Google all
the time that I needed it?!"
- William Kamkwamba, 2007

7. FREE ABUNDANT

10. Step by step solutions:
A Recipe for Everything!
Source: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-biryani/

11. Search Literacy
understanding how to effectively use web
search to find quality sources appropriate to
your task

12. Autodidactic
learning a subject without a teacher or
formal education; self-education

13. Education is becoming Autodidactic

14. In the internet era
Do-It-Yourself
does not mean
You-Do-It-Alone
It's a Movement

15. Join the DIY Movement
Practice
Share
Promote

16. PROMOTE DIY
Encourage your team's
members to
• Search before you Ask
• Prototype the Solution

17. learning organization:
an organization that facilitates the learning of its
members and continuously transforms itself
an organization of
DIY-driven individuals
is a learning organization

18. a DIY organization can change
EVERYTHING
Source: Wikimedia
Commons,
Homebrew
Computer Club
Sep1976.png

19. "Small groups of DIY innovators can
now tackle problems that were
solely the purview of big
governments & large companies."
- Abundance: The Future is Better than You
Think by Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler,
2012

20. DIY Movements are NOW
Source: http://www.wikihouse.cc/

21. Source: http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php

22. Source: http://diydrones.com/

23. Source: http://cubify.com/

24. a personal method for DIY
1. Start small: pick a specific project with limited scope
2. Don’t wait for anyone else to do anything for you
3. Leverage the resources of the internet to accomplish
your task
4. Ask for help when you are stuck
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until you are done

25. "Let him who would move the
world, first move himself"
- Socrates

26. What can you do yourself in
Bangladesh right now?
Source: Wikimedia Commons, William Kamkwamba's old windmill