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Gaming for Sustainability: How Balaji Prabhakar’s Lottery Beats Traffic Congestion

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INSINC poster at Singapore''s train stations' But how ingenious it is to apply this insight to reduce congestion-related costs (fuel, pollution, time) and, ultimately, congestion itself in urban areas with some of the world’s worst daily traffic jams!

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ammado, An exciting new platform for social involvement

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I know Terry because he was UBS’ point guy on philanthropy in Singapore and Asia before joining ammado. It’s an impressive web-based application for helping multi-national corporations engage their employees and customers in social sector activities such as volunteering or donating.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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This survived in the Treaty in a much weaker form, which allows countries to choose to have a commerciality requirement in their copyright law, which some countries like Singapore and Australia already do have.

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