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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

Becoming Americanized can be depressing

The Mexican-American population in San Antonio is increasingly Americanized, thus depression should be on the increase. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Immigrant, Women, Poverty, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-15

(Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)

(Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraftHiHow much for a 600 sq yds plot ? Please book mine. Should be a corner plot.Peter Topno

Tags: spacecraft, Phoenix Technologies

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Setting Social Security Standards in a Global Society

Social security is declared as a human right in the major United Nations human rights instruments. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to any form of social protection remains a dream for 80 per cent of the world's population. Social protection is a powerful tool for alleviating...

Tags: Poverty, Standards, International Labour Organization, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Government, Finance

White papers 2008-04-28

The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media

The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...

Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Will co-habitation be a new business for Facebook?

Guest post: Fresh from a sojourn to UK where he grew up, Chris Matyszczyk considers the latest trend in London home buying--speed-dating via Facebook to find co-buyers for real estate purchases. When I think of England, I think of poverty. Poverty of weather, poverty...

Tags: Facebook, Poverty, Image, Sharetobuy.com, Mortgages, Real Estate, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against poverty

Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against povertyDo we reallyunderstand that people in poverty can't "EAT" the web pages for tracking if they are feed or not!!!Another stupid adventure for self glory of these companies.Google stock price> Yesterday's close: $707.00 U.SMarket value> With a market value of nearly...

Tags: Investment, poverty, Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Google, Cisco lend a hand to UN's fight against poverty

With the help of Google and Cisco, the UN is launching a new website to help track how the world is doing in fighting poverty and development goals. The site includes Google Earth map and satellite imagery as well as statistics on how a range of countries are doing at...

Tags: Google Inc., Poverty, Site, Cisco Systems Inc., Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Is poverty the cause of low broadband penetration?

In his DSL Prime newsletter, Dave Burstein takes a view that FCC Chair Kevin Martin's focus on improving broadband penetration by focusing on rural areas is not necessarily the quickest way to get there."There are not enough unservable rural homes to be the major explanation," Dave wisely writes. "Martin’s...

Tags: trends, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty

Bill Gates, charity and ending povertyWell..."Good luck Bill, even the Linux guys want you to succeed at this!"Maybe most do, but check out the other ZDNet article about Buffet and Gates for some who aren't as forgiving as you are. :)Carl RapsonAyn Rand......would have none of this "poverty assistance" stuff....

Tags: Vertical industries, government, poverty, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Do Note

Discussion threads 2006-06-27

Bill Gates, charity and ending poverty

Bill Gates announced his "retirement" plans live on Microsoft's corpnet an hour before I headed for LAX to make a week-long trip to Mexico. It wasn't your typical trip, as it started in Mexico City and veered into Vera Cruz state by way of Orizaba (the site...

Tags: poverty, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Sachs

Blog posts 2006-06-27

US median household income was $44,389 in 2004

The real median income of US households was essentially unchanged at $44,389 in 2004, according to US Census Bureau. The official poverty rate increased from 12.5% to 12.7%, representing 37 mln people in poverty, up from 35.9 mln in 2003. Among children, the poverty rate remained at 17.8% or 13...

Tags: income, poverty

Blog posts 2005-08-30

Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?

Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?Timing of this story is dubious at bestWhyzit that these stories of global warming and disasters etc ALWAYS seem to crop up whenever Bush is doing something uber public?I have my (cough, cough) theories. Oh yeah and I liked the nice touch at...

Tags: environmentalism, poverty, global warming, pollution, Permian, extinction

Discussion threads 2005-01-20

Iceland buses come clean with hydrogen

Iceland buses come clean with hydrogenNow this is an example ofan earlier comment I made about Europe producing some awesome technologies. Now granted Iceland is not technically Europe, the cities that are participating in the experiement are. And where is the US? Oh yes that's right, falling behind the rest...

Tags: poverty, environmentalism, global warming, Bottom line is fossil fuel, pollution, U.S. Government, Kyoto Protocol, Iceland, hydrogen

Discussion threads 2005-01-12

Additional Resources

More people, more pollution, right?

Population ControlWhat is it now, the big 'O' is going to sterilize the peasants so they don't reproduce? If you want to get the low IQ, better to castrate Windows admins.NT.*yawn**yawn* - yeah, okay, heard all that before. If you want to propose a solution (other than resorting to communism...

Tags: GFC, pollution, famine

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Recovery? This week's pink-slip tally tops 5,000 for tech

Jobless recovery...http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmvtiAvhIOM/Sd3eSXBNXoI/AAAAAAAAAkw/ijffEEeunms/S660/did_i_do_that.JPGNo worries, with our new messiah in office he is telling people he has'saved' the country from going belly up.Meanwhile, China/Russia/Europe want to get rid of the dollar standard since itis ranked 48th in the world.It is a banana republic folk's step rightup and drink some of the socialistkool-aid...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Give us clotheslines

Darn those HOA'sDarn HOA nazi's in most cases will prevent you from hanging clothes outside. Apparently, it brings down a community's property value. Because you know, owning a washer/dryer is a sign of wealth or something...HOA and their bylaws along with the RIAA, two organizations that should be...

Tags: HOA

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25