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Blogging and War: Can Technology change Social Processes?

There's been a recent hype around the use of mobile technologies to "empower" people to submit reports "from the field", take action and change the course of society...

Somehow, just like we were promised that TV would educate people and that the Internet would free us all, we've heard it all before, yet we have to see it happen.

An Unfamiliar Territory for Technology

What is like to live large? Ask a Kenyan government official and you have the full story - http://kenyanpundit.com/docs/transparency.pdf

Sounds like a small problem if you live in the developed world. What if yours is a developing country struggling from the ashes? I suppose it is not a Kenyan problem, but indeed global.

The End of Poverty Eradication

Coming from a country where poverty is nothing you have to search for, I have read very interesting proposals on how poverty can be brought to an end - for once and for all. 2015 for my country, Kenya. My country is certainly very rich of such proposals in it is national archives, government departments, ministries and and countless civil societies offices. I had wished they sold for money.

Connecting Agricultural Sector through Electronic Governance Models and 2 Lessons

Electronic Governance, in simplest terms, it refers to those governance processes in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are playing an active role in delivering governance related products and services.

Not Just For Profit

I found the concept of "Not Just For Profit" group very interesting.

We can clearly see the profit-driven business model resulted serious market failures and created the extreme wealth and poverty in the world, which in term causes many social economic problems and environmental imbalance.

What a board does for a social enterprise

We've just finished a board meeting for Digital Divide Data...and I am feeling deeply appreciative of our board of directors. Our board saw us through a critical organizational challenge...and we are poised to emerge as an even stronger organization from the experience.

Sustainability as Security

Join hundreds of industry professionals,
students, and leading researchers for a
global dialogue on poverty and
sustainable development! The University of Texas at Austin will be host to this year's ESW annual conference "Sustainability as Security", October 5-9, 2005. The event will bring together 800 to 1000 students and professionals to learn about and discuss innovative solutions for a more sustainable world. Participants from all backgrounds welcome!