Ideas, Events & Things
Please view this page as our fridge door - things appear and disappear as they catch our attention - or fade away in our interest. We hope you might find them interesting too. At the very least we hope this page will serve as an insight into what we think and care about.
Ideas
Social by Social
http://www.socialbysocial.com/
A practical guide to using new social technologies to deliver social impact
Aid and Economics
War Games by Linda Polman
The Plundered Planet by Paul Colier
Inclusive Markets
'Growing Inclusive Markets' (GIM) is an initiative led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with an unprecedented coalition of thinkers and actors in the field of business, academia and human development.
We believe that in the race to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the greatest untapped resource is the private sector. 'Growing Inclusive Markets' is designed to make a substantial contribution to both business and human development by offering tools and a strategy matrix, distilled from a broad pool of case studies'.
http://growinginclusivemarkets.org/home
Cash for Aid
Themes
ICT4DEV
ICT4D Collective
Prof Tim Unwin, Royal Holloway,
Games and Development
Development Through Enterprise
Events
African Gathering
http://www.africagathering.org/
Africa Gathering provides a space to bring technophiles, thinkers, entrepreneurs, innovators and everybody else together to talk about positive change in sustainable development, technology, social networking, health, education, environment and good governance in Africa.
Shine May 2010 (passed)
Unconference for Social Entrepreneurs http://shineunconference.co.uk/Home
ICTD London, 13-16 Dec 2010
The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha (2009), Bangalore (2007) and Berkeley (2006). It aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of information and communication technologies in development practice to meet to discuss the latest research advances in the field.
Vienna
UN to Review Progress on the Millennium Development Goals at High-level Meeting, New York, September 2010
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/sept_2010_more.shtml
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