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Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

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Silicon Valley's top awards

Silicon Valley's 2008 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity will be presented at a gala dinner this evening. The keynote speech will be delivered by Mohammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. I'm looking forward to meeting Mr Yunus as I've been an admirer of his...

Tags: Humanity, Applied Materials Inc., Benefits, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-12

The last Nobel winner goes open source

Everyone knows who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Know who won last year's? It was Muhammed Yunus right, whose Grameen Bank has become the leader in micro-finance, tiny loans for poor folk which get them into small businesses. Through his Grameen Foundation, and with help...

Tags: Idea, Product, IBM Corp., Banking, Open Source, Financial Services, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Oxfam: Innovating to deliver humanitarian relief

Oxfam: Innovating to deliver humanitarian reliefAre Large Foreign NGOs Always Best?Although some large aid projects can be delivered only via governments or foreign NGOs like Oxfam; small local organisations which work through groups of local people, respecting local cultures, are often more effective at delivering sustainable development.Several decades of large-scale...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, NGO, local people, foreign NGO, Oxfam

Discussion threads 2006-12-11

Google.org: charity or profitable business?

The New York Times has an article describing Google's charity: Google.org funded with $1bn. What makes this interesting is that its legal status is the same as that of a corporation--it is a for-profit entity rather than a non-profit.This means that Google.org is not subject to the 501c(3) IRS code...

Tags: for-Profit, Google.org

Blog posts 2006-09-20

Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement

Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movementSounds too good to be true[i]An acquisition of MySQL, for example, would provide Oracle with an incredible return on its investment in just a matter of months because it would stop the loss of tens of millions of dollars in lost new business.[/i]I...

Tags: open source, Oracle Corp., MySQL, fork

Discussion threads 2006-02-17

Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement

Oracle's attempt to buy MySQL, and its acquisition of open-source database company Sleepycat, and its reported interest in JBoss, demonstrate an extremely aggressive attack on the open-source movement. The software giant could stop much of the open-software movement dead in its tracks through acquisitions, and stifle the rest of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., open source

Blog posts 2006-02-16