The Future of Television: What's Next? March 24-25, 2008 - Los Angeles Future of Television is a 2-day executive conference, unlike any other, that brings together key decision-makers from cable and broadcast networks, cable and satellite operators, high-tech and advertising to focus on the future of television
ClimateArk is a Climate Change Portal and Search Engine dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation and ending deforestation.
Hudson Institute's Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World A war of ideas and more is underway within the Muslim world over its future direction. Will the Muslim world follow the guidance of Islamism or radical Islamic ideology and its known hostility to a moderate accommodation with modernity and democracy? Please visit the project subsite at futureofmuslimworld.com
World Bank warns of food crisis
INNOVATION - Something new under the sun Oct 11th 2007 - From The Economist print edition Innovation, long the preserve of technocratic elites, is becoming more open. This will be good for the world, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran (interviewed here). The Economist has a special report on innovation in this week's issue, and it's good to see the magazine recognizing "open innovation" as the perhaps most important current trend in this space: "Rapid and disruptive change is now happening across new and old businesses. Innovation ... is becoming both more accessible and more global.
Policy Innovations - The Carnegie Council's online magazine for a fairer globalization.- Global Policy Innovations Program Over the last decade, the development engine appears to have stalled in some regions. Many of the world’s poorest countries are experiencing falling growth rates, rising unemployment, and environmental degradation. Many in the developing world have come to view free trade and financial liberalization not as pathways to prosperity, but as tools of exploitation. A growing body of innovative scholarship offers promising strategies for sustainable development and a fairer globalization. Yet, these proposals have not been disseminated in a coordinated fashion. In response to this challenge, the Global Policy Innovations program provides a forum for pragmatic alternatives to the current global economic order.
Dancewithshadows.com aims to be a refuge for those who wanted to change the world with their pen, and ended up banging out subheadlines on their keyboards to headlines decided by ignoramuses.
albawaba.com middle east news information Portal for Middle Eastern news and information. Features a search engine, travel and business information and services, and other web resources.
Warming to bring drought, floods and hunger to Asia NEW DELHI, April 10 (Reuters) - Food shortages, water scarcity, heatwaves, floods and migration of millions of people will occur across Asia as a result of climate change, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. climate panel, said on Tuesday.
"Internet moet 'semantisch web' worden" UTRECHT - 08/06/07 Tim Berners-Lee, grondlegger van het wereldwijde web, heeft kritiek op de manier waarop het internet evolueert. Lee is bang dat het huidige Web 2.0 zorgt voor versnippering en dubbel werk. Hij wil in plaats daarvan een nieuwe informatiestandaard die "alles en iedereen met elkaar verbindt".
Global Cool's mission is this: get a billion people to reduce their personal CO2 emissions by at least one tonne. Become one in a billion right here by ticking which tiny lifestyle changes you could realistically make on your very own MY CO2 Workout Card. We'll tell you how much CO2 you'll save from clogging up the atmosphere and will also add your CO2 saving to our ace Global Coolometer.
Green Markets International is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing environmental and human well-being through mechanisms that support climate protection and local development. Our programs are designed to make the emerging international greenhouse gas reduction market more broadly accessible to small-scale activities and to communities that might otherwise be left out. We also work to accelerate the use of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies through other strategies involving market development and transformation.
Stop Global Warming Virtual March - This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global community. Join the 840,380 supporters of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and become part of the movement to demand our leaders freeze and reduce carbon dioxide emissions now. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.
The Child Trends DataBank Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing research and data to inform decision-making that affects children. In addition to conducting its own research, Child Trends works with federal and state officials and other researchers to improve the quality, scope, and use of data on children and their families. We provide technical assistance to public agencies and private organizations that develop, analyze, track, and use statistical indicators of child and youth well-being. We also assist in the design and implementation of policy and program evaluations.
The Inescapable Impact of Social Networking In the current issue of The New Atlantis, writer Christine Rosen takes a hard look at the effect social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace et al) are having on our social interaction. Increasingly, she notes, people are giving up face-to-face relations, content to communicate through “technological surrogates”. Although social networking sites are in their infancy, we are seeing their impact culturally: in language (where to friend is now a verb), in politics (where it is de rigueur for presidential aspirants to catalogue their virtues on MySpace), and on college campuses (where not using Facebook can be a social handicap). But we are only beginning to come to grips with the consequences of our use of these sites: for friendship, and for our notions of privacy, authenticity, community, and identity. As with any new technological advance, we must consider what type of behavior online social networking encourages. What are the costs of our connections? How, as communities and as cultures, are our methods of interaction, even our very sense of what constitutes credible relationships, changing?
