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What a great way to leverage the power of the crowd!
“Kiva, a peer-to-peer online microlending nonprofit organization, is changing the dynamics of microfinance by linking people who have money to loan up with entrepreneurs in developing countries who need some capital, all over the Internet. What is considered pocket change for many people in the United States can go a long way toward helping a struggling businessman get started in another part of the world.”
What are the 14 greatest engineering challenges for the 21st century?
Gates and those like him simply do not understand that concepts like “ownership,” “property,” “mine vs ours” more often than not kill true collaboration. We may be able to realize some evolutionary change in this kind of Gates-esque environment, but it often takes a lot longer and can be far more costly. Innovation, revolutionary ideas or leaps of genius starve or are forcibly killed in that kind of environment. We have challenges in our world which require that which Gates is effectively killing. How do we change so that we may save ourselves and others fast?
Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research – Slashdot
WHO official complains about Gates Foundation’s dominance… – International Herald Tribune
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Ha! Gates should read this…
The Wall Street Journal has recently started a new blog called Environmental Capital. Not only is it on a topic near and dear to my heart, but it could shed light on industries or companies facing major change
“Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of the business of the environment. It tracks how growing green concern, particularly over climate change, is roiling established industries and spurring new ones – and how that shift is affecting investors, consumers and the planet.”
