Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
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DabbaWalas - Amazing Meal Delivery in India (Dabbawalas)
These dabbawalas move 400,000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles.
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Amazing story of dabbawalas from Mumbai, India - world famous lunch caterers who move 400,000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles.
If you visit Mumbai, you are bound to notice the dabbawalas. You may not realize this, but the dabbawalas are a very important part of life in Mumbai. They are the ones who make sure that nearly 200,000 people get their lunch in time at their offices or schools, everyday, from home. Their operations are so efficient that world personalities like Prince Charles and Richard Branson have visited them. They have been invited for lectures at business schools, they are even said to be six sigma compliant. Now what is a dabba? A dabba is simply a tiffin box carrying home-cooked food, which is to be delivered from the home to a person in an office or a school. And a dabbawala is a person who picks up the food from the home, and ensures that it is delivered to the right office, to the right person on time. My name is Raghunath D. Medge. I am the President of the Dabbawala association. The operation started in 1890. We have 5,000 members (dabbawalas).
It all may sound fairly simple, but imagine doing this in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The dabbawalas have high rates of accuracy and their error rates are shockingly one in a million only. And what is even more impressive, that all the dabbawalas are fairly illiterate and have no use of any technology. The only motorized transport used is the Mumbai local trains. Other than that they make use of hand-drawn carts and bicycles. I leave my bicycle at the train station. At the delivery point I use someone else's bicycle. And my bicycle is used by another person. The dabbas, or the lunch boxes, have a color-coding scheme which makes sure that they get to the right destination. The structure of this organization is fairly flat. It has just three levels. First, the governing body, second the team leads or the supervisors, and third, the dabbawalas. And everyone is an equal shareholder in this organization. There are no bosses, and the earnings are equally divided. Everyone is working for the team. If one person works less, the entire team's income is reduced
All the dabbawalas come from the same Warkari sect, and whenever any replacement is required, villages that have this Warkari sect are approached for suitable candidates. To join this organization as a dabbawala, the dabbawalas have to bring a few things: a long wooden crate, two bicycles and rupees 20 for a Ghandi cap that they wear. And how much do you think would it cost to avail of this very efficient dabba service? Less than ten dollars a month. While the operations are fairly simple, the dabbawalas are now beginning to work with newer technologies. You can SMS them, or you can also log on to their site, mydabbawala.com to avail of their services. I was invited to Prince Charles' wedding. I was invited to Italy twice. Forbes magazine did research on us. BBC made a documentary on us. When people see our operations, they say why not give us six sigma status? We don't even know what is six sigma.
And given their reach in Mumbia, Microsoft has also partnered with the dabbawalas. The dabbawalas distributed leaflets and wore Microsoft-branded clothes to spread awareness of genuine Windows softwares to their customers. We are 5,000 in number, moving 400,000 lunch boxes a day, using local trains, bicycles, and manpower. I'm Premjit Singh, showing you Mumbai.
Infighting Among Russian Security Services in the Cyber Sphere
This talk draws on more than a decade of research into the cyber threat environment of the RuNet (much of it conducted in Russia) and insight gained as a bit player in a trial that is itself a significant escalation among Russia's security agencies. It will discuss the competition between Russia's security agencies active in the cyber sphere, as well as the specific conflicts, and actions, that may have played a role in creating the current situation, and how the current situation could influence future decisions regarding international campaigns.
By Kimberly Zenz
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CNN's Byers: Ted Cruz Is Trying To Convince Voters Trump And Fox News Are Colluding
BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): On this Indiana primary day, we have now seen Senator Ted Cruz going off like you really haven't seen him before. Not only ripping into Donald Trump but also blasting Fox News, accusing top executives of rallying behind the Republican front-runner and pushing the narrative that Senator Cruz cannot win the party nomination. Here he was.
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TED CRUZ: There was a broader dynamic at work, which is network executives have made a decision to get behind Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes at Fox News have turned Fox News into the Donald Trump Network 24/7. Now, Rupert Murdoch is used to picking world leaders in Australia and the United Kingdom running tabloids, and we're seeing it here at home with the consequences for this nation. Media executives are trying to convince Hoosiers, trying to convince Americans the race is decided, you have no choice, you are stuck between Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, either one of which is a horrific choice for this country.
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BALDWIN: Let's talk about this with CNN's senior reporter for media and politics Dylan Byers. Dylan, Senator Cruz attacking the media. That's nothing new, but watching him today, that attack seemed personal.
DYLAN BYERS: Yea, it is personal, and it's an interesting target of course because it's not the mainstream media, it’s not the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN. It's Fox News, and it's Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. What Ted Cruz is doing here is he's going for broke. He's trying to convince Indiana voters that they've been sold a bill of goods and that one of the people selling it to them is the Fox News Network. And I think what he's trying to tap into there is there are a lot of -- we tend to think of Fox News as this sort of home for Republicans and conservatives, but of course there are many conservatives out there who view Fox News as the voice of the Republican establishment. He's trying to sort of convince voters who may still be on the fence in these final hours that Fox News, Donald Trump, despite all their bickering over the last nine or ten months are actually in collusion, and if they want a true outsider, a real conservative who represents their interests and not a pathological liar as Ted Cruz has referred to Donald Trump then they need to go with him. It's really a last ditch effort.
BALDWIN: I'm not so sure that will change Hoosiers' minds just having talked to folks in Indiana today these last couple of hours. Do you think, though, attacking Fox News could really hurt Senator Cruz in the long run?
BYERS: Well, in the long run, sure, in the short run, again, he doesn't really have a choice. But in the long run, yeah, it could prove very problematic. Look, let's think about what happens if Ted Cruz does not get the nomination, which is looking increasingly likely, Fox News is still gonna be around come 2017 and beyond. Ted Cruz has already cast himself as the outsider, as the sort of anti-establishment Republican, but going forward Fox News is still a very powerful platform in the Republican party, and if he wants to have any leverage with them whatsoever he might have just burned that bridge and, perhaps, irreparably.
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Everything Has Beauty
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