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LEGO and Mobile Solutions

Wed, 2009-04-22 17:31 — admin

What LEGO and Mobile Solutions Have in Common
There has long been discussions of using the current mobile app solutions to let end-users pick and choose between available services. Something like LEGO, where you pick and choose the right pieces that work for your particular need. A real toolbox of apps that actually work together, and can be connected easily by anyone, without the need of deep technological background.

Moving from relief to resilience: the role of business in disaster risk reduction

Wed, 2009-04-22 17:24 — admin

Date:8 April 2009
Source(s):Corporate Social Responsibility Asia (CSR Asia)

Helen Roeth reports that according to the Swiss Reinsurance Company Sigma report, catastrophes and man-made disasters caused 240,500 deaths in 2008, with economic losses up to 269 billion dollars - and numbers are expected to increase due to climate change factors and economic severity of catastrophes.

Study Finds Pattern of Severe Droughts in Africa

Wed, 2009-04-22 16:47 — admin

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 16, 2009
For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers report in a new study.

The scientists warned that more such mega-droughts are inevitable, although there is no way to predict when the next one could unfold.

MIDIR: European Multi-dimensional Integrated Risk Governance

Wed, 2009-04-22 16:34 — admin

The MIDIR project

G8 admits losing battle against hunger

Mon, 2009-04-20 22:14 — admin

By Javier Blas in Cison di Valmarino, Italy

Published: April 20 2009 14:03 | Last updated: April 20 2009 14:03
The Group of Eight leading nations called on Monday “for increasing public and private investment” in agriculture, but their communiqué after the first meeting on the subject acknowledged that efforts to tackle hunger were lagging.

Strengthening Country-Led Monitoring & Evaluation System

Mon, 2009-04-20 13:31 — admin

Organized by UNICEF CEE/CIS, and Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO
April 15th, 2009


Good practices in using DevInfo: Recorded Knowledge Sharing Event

WHO call for involvement on Health Equity Analysis and Research

Mon, 2009-04-20 13:23 — admin

Call for interest to be a member of a new :
WHO SCIENTIFIC RESOURCE GROUP ON HEALTH EQUITY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights
World Health Organization

Website: http://www.who.int/eth/en/

Nominate yourself or someone else by 15 May 2009: equity@who.int

“……The World Health Organization (WHO) is establishing a Scientific Resource Group (SRG) on Health Equity Analysis and Research to support WHO on its programme of work on equity and health.

Inequality, Poverty and Social Policy: Recent Trends in Chile

Mon, 2009-04-20 13:21 — admin

Osvaldo Larrañaga, University of Chile, Chile
No. 85, 08/04/2009, English, 34 pages, doi: 10.1787/224516554144
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD

PDF Available online: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/linkto/delsa-elsa-wd-sem(2009)13

Abstract:
http://www.oecd.org/LongAbstract/0,3425,en_2649_33933_42545457_119684_1_1_1,00.html

This report aims to outline the main trends in income distribution and poverty in Chile, as well as the role of social policy in these areas.
The report includes five sections:

Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

Thu, 2009-04-16 08:55 — admin

KOHLUA, India — “It’s hard to believe that this is what’s melting the glaciers,” said Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, as he weaved through a warren of mud brick huts, each containing a mud cookstove pouring soot into the atmosphere.

Black Carbon
This is the first in a series of articles about stopgap measures that could limit global warming. Future articles will address appliance-efficiency standards, reducing global-warming gases other than carbon dioxide and other efforts.

Chronic Disease: An Economic Perspective

Wed, 2009-04-15 16:22 — admin

Marc Suhrcke, WHO Regional Office for Europe (Venice, Italy)
Rachel A. Nugent, director of health and economics at the Population Reference Bureau.
David Stuckler, working with OxHA members and the WHO on issues pertaining to the global governance of chronic diseases.
Lorenzo Rocco, assistant professor of economics with the University of Padova in Italy.
London: Oxford Health Alliance

Web site: http://www.oxha.org/initiatives/economics/chronic-disease-an-economic-perspective

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