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UN Sudan Information Gateway: Health & Nutrition

Sun, 2012-01-29 14:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

http://www.unsudanig.org/library/mapcatalogue/south/index.php?fid=health&nutrition

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Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus

Wed, 2012-01-25 17:47 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Tomorrow is Another Day

Mon, 2012-01-23 17:40 — admin

submitted by Kathy (katmax)

In March of 1973, E. B. White* received a letter from a Mr. Nadeau,
who sought his opinion on what he saw as a bleak future for the human
race. White responded with the following, beautifully written letter.

   North Brooklin, Maine
   30 March 1973

   Dear Mr. Nadeau:

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2012 Communities Collaborating Institute: Innovating Together

Sun, 2012-01-22 16:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Why not invest in yourself in 2012?  Tamarack is pleased to announce a number of outstanding learning opportunities we have planned, designed to grow your capacity as an innovative community leader. 

2012 Communities Collaborating Institute:  Innovating Together

Plan now to join us for this signature week-long leadership institute to be held October 1 - 5, 2012 in Kitchener, Waterloo.  We are pleased to be joined by a stellar line up of thought leaders including Margaret (Meg) Wheatley, Tim Brodhead, Al Etmanski and Michael Jones.  Read more about the 2012 Communities Collaborating Institute here.  Be one of the first to register for the 2012 Communities Collaborating Institute.   

Tamarack's Tele-Learning Series – Interviews you won't want to miss!

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CTPL Course - Global Health Policy: The Role of Diplomacy

Tue, 2012-01-17 21:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

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Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Dunton Tower

Ottawa, ON

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USUN - Passage of the Fifth Committee Regular Budget for the 2012-2013 Biennium

Wed, 2012-01-04 22:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

        

New York, New York - December 29, 2011

The United States is proud to have negotiated, alongside our international partners, a strengthened, more efficient, and more effective United Nations budget that saves the American taxpayers millions of dollars and sets the United Nations on the path of real fiscal discipline and continued reform. Highlights of the 2012-2013 biennium budget include:

· A 5% overall cut in the size of the UN budget. The total budget of $5.153 billion represents the first time in 14 years – and only the second time in the last 50 years – that the General Assembly has approved a regular budget level below the previous biennia’s final appropriation ($5.41 billion in 2010-2011). When factoring in the difference between the likely budget level based on historic patterns and the budget approved last week, this budget represents a savings to American taxpayers of as much as $100 million.

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Mapping Digital Media

Tue, 2011-12-13 10:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

soros.org - Open Society Foundations

The values that underpin good journalism, the need of citizens for reliable and abundant information, and the importance of such information for a healthy society and robust democracy: these are perennial, and provide compass-bearings for anyone trying to make sense of current changes across the media landscape.

The Mapping Digital Media project, which examines these changes in-depth, aims to build bridges between researchers and policymakers, activists, academics, and standard-setters across the world. It also builds policy capacity in countries where this is less developed, encouraging stakeholders to participate and influence change. At the same time, this research creates a knowledge base, laying foundations for advocacy work, building capacity, and enhancing debate.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review - Collective Impact

Mon, 2011-12-12 23:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

imagesubmitted by Theresa Bernardo

Illustration by Martin Jarrie

by John Kania & Mark Kramer - Winter 2011

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. 

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Revealed – The Capitalist Network that Runs the World

Wed, 2011-11-23 22:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Andy Coughlan and Debora MacKenzie - newscientist.com - October 24, 2011

      

The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One)

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

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Ozcan Receives 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Tue, 2011-11-22 09:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

UCLA Engineering

Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, has received the country’s highest honor for science and engineering researchers who are at an early stage of their careers.

Ozcan was one of 94 researchers announced by President Obama on Monday, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Ozcan’s research is in photonics and its applications in nano- and bio-technology. Most prominently, he has developed new powerful optical imaging and sensing architectures that can be incorporated into mobile phones. Essentially becoming mobile labs, these phones can analyze fluids to test for HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases in body fluids, or analyze water quality following a disaster. These devices, which are relatively inexpensive to produce, have broad applications for improving health care in resource-poor regions.

I’m very honored to receive the PECASE award,” Ozcan said. “This will support our existing efforts to create smart global health systems through innovative uses of photonics and computational technologies.

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