You can’t fake genuine emotion. Barack Obama connects and inspires. Did you see the tear-streaked faces of those gathered in Grants Park in downtown Chicago on Tuesday night? They were not mere spectators, but active participants as Obama called for a shared vision of the future - using We, not You or I as a subject.
Photo: David Katz/Obama [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world.
Kudos to Simon Berry and the distributed Colalife team, for this one, and their intelligent and relentless campaign.
Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study, which [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Why is there no global search engine for good news?
Imagine… a humungous aggregator of all the positive good that millions of people have done today. The tiny, but not so insignificant acts of kindness and philanthropy, which if joined together would add up to one heck of a powerful narrative for a more just [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
I can’t get this out of my head.
I know this is simplistic, and I’d never have dreamt making this sort of comparison when I studied Development Economics two decades ago.
But wait a minute, when other, less powerful nations needed bailouts in the past, weren’t these accompanied by stringent conditions? At the same time the rich nations exalted [...]
Earlier this week I gave a talk to about forty Action Aid staff members on social media, subtitled “does it mean we have to change our jobs?”
Thanks to Joanna Juber - the charity’s Digital Engagement Manager - for inviting me to speak on a range of topics I will be blogging about over the coming [...]
This is where I’m going to be for the next two days. Looking forward to it.
I’m particularly looking forward to introducing Hoop MD, Sean O’Halloran who will talk about the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP). Sean has a close family link with the project.
MAP is funded by the Wellcome Trust, and is led by Professor Bob [...]
