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Intel remains committed to supporting the advancement of skilled workforce in Malaysia through various projects, including the 1:1 e-learning initiative, said Intel South-East Asia director Marcus Low. Low said the initiative was under the umbrella of the Intel? World Ahead Programme, which was aimed at connecting the next billion people to a world of opportunities. He said the World Ahead programme was driving cooperation between local stakeholders and industry leaders t...
Intel’s E-Learning DriveNews
Huge profits made by London-based brokers who arrange emissions-cutting projects in developing countries contrast with little benefit for the world’s poorest nations, company and United Nations data shows. The Kyoto Protocol on global warming allows rich countries to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by paying poor nations to cut emissions on their behalf, using the so-called clean development mechanism (CDM). But evidence is emerging that while brokers stand to mak...
Poor Nations LoseNews
En M?xico muy pocos conocen a Satyanarayan Gangarm (Sam) Pitroda. Aqu? no fijamos nuestra atenci?n en lo que ?l hace: innovar, crear nuevas empresas, utilizar la tecnolog?a para beneficio de los pobres y ayudar a su pa?s a entrar de lleno a la econom?a del conocimiento. Aqu? estamos demasiado concentrados en las denominadas reformas estructurales o en evitar que se hagan esas reformas; en seguir insistiendo a favor del Consenso de Was-hington o en rechazarlo. Cuando m?s, hacemos referencias ret?...
?Qui?n es ’Sam’ Pitroda?News
In many of India’s boomtowns, a car is a quintessential part of the middle-class dream, a symbol of status and comfort that helps a family arrive in style, without a layer of grime from the choking pollution or soggy, mud-stained clothes from the rain. Every afternoon when Sudheer Mahanan, a government forest warden, picks up his two children from school, he is forced to squeeze them onto his moped. As they speed over monsoon-drenched potholes and weave around meandering cows, his...
In India, One Cheap Car Could Go a Long WayNews
How many people in the world live on less than $1 a day? When U.S. workers in an online survey answered that question, 23 percent correctly said 1 billion people or more. The survey, sponsored by the nonprofit group Millennium Promise, gathered information from 6,823 employees at U.S. companies and released the results today. Millennium Promise was founded by the economist Jeffrey D. Sachs to help ease extreme poverty in African villages. Sixty percent of the sur...
World’s Poorest, Living on $1, Get Hypothetical Help in SurveyBlog Post
Guest blogger Ben Powell is Managing Partner of Agora Partnerships. Last week, he traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to attend Innovation for the Third Sector: Sustainability and Social Impact, and filed this report. Read below for Ben’s observations of the rapidly growing Latin American social...
Conference Report – Innovation for the Third SectorNews
This article highlights the difficulty of diving into the potentially massive, but messy business of selling clean water to poor people. Many have tried to help developing nations with their water problems; few have come up with a way to profit from the effort. KAIKALURU, India -- After draining this town’s pool of drinking water recently, cleaners found drowned rats and bloated lizards. But at least, as is common at other storage tanks across this parched land in eastern India, there were n...
Behind One Effort to Tap Into India’s Water MarketBlog Post
Some of my recent blog posts focused on venture capitalism (Wulff Capital, Agora Partnerships). Well, it must be a trend ? I just came across Echoing Green.Echoing Green is an angel investor for entrepreneurs focused on social change. They provide seed funding and support to entrepreneurs...
Social Entrepreneurs: Echoing Green’s 2007 Fellows
