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As President Obama is stepping back from the White House previous plan to abandon U.S. asymmetric role over Internet in 2015, -the administration now says the change won't happen for years, if ever ...
We were only a few among media to realize, back in 2012, how arrogant and powerful was the US over its dominance of the Internet, and not just its control over the root servers and ...
Back in June 2013, a G8 meeting was imminent, announced by a flood of editorial coverage, political declarations and alter-globalization protests advocating the rights of the “Rest” over the “West”. The G8 was to take ...
To many observers’ surprise, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor has opened a criminal case against Argor Hereaus, a major Swiss Gold refinery company, immediately after TRIAL, the Swiss based anti-impunity NGO along with the Conflict Awareness ...
Etienne Eichenberger, Executive Director of WISE, sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the NGO sector. What is your interest in NGOs? I have worked with civil society for the last ...
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Being, Zoltan J Acs, Princeton University Press, $29.95. In Why Philanthropy Matters, Zoltan Acs traces the role of philanthropy in ...
Family planning on a global scale. HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded in 1976 on the basis of a vision to make family planning available to women and men around the world, Marie Stopes International is ...
Mobile technology for social change. HQ Location: Kenya Launched in 2004, FrontlineSMS is the brainchild of Ken Banks. During his work at Kruger National Park, Banks noticed that instead of the Internet, outlying communities used ...
The dollars and cents of financial literacy. HQ Location: Netherlands Inspiring disadvantaged children to know their rights, practice saving and launch enterprises, Aflatoun began in 1991 in Mumbai as an action research project affiliated with ...
Creative and sustainable water solutions. HQ Location: United States Every day, nearly 6,000 people die from water-related illnesses, the vast majority children lacking access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities. Recognizing that ...
Eradicating preventable blindness HQ Location: United States For much of the 20th century, the name Helen Keller was synonymous with courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Left blind and deaf as a baby, she ...
An alternative bank for the rural poor. HQ Location: Haiti When asked why he created a microfinance institution focused on women, the founder of Fonkoze, Father Joseph Philippe, was clear: “women are the backbone of ...
Health workers on the frontline HQ Location: United Kingdom At the age of 30, Christophe Besse left his job treating the rich and famous in an exclusive London clinic, to “do some proper work.” Founding ...
The ‘last mile’ of health care delivery. HQ Location: United Kingdom. As in many other impoverished regions, the majority of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lives in rural areas where the best roads are little ...
Harnessing irrigation technology for good. HQ Location: United States One of the leading voices in the ‘appropriate technology’ movement, psychiatrist turned social entrepreneur Paul Polak founded iDE in 1982 as an organization devoted to the ...
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