Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. you know, I thought, "Wow!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Now, a day and two thousand miles from the closing ceremony, I realize I was lucky enough to participate in a very special kind of conference, one which deals specifically with the global politics of science centers. They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. “The WWF number one source for biodiversity lost globally is cane sugar plantations,” Simmons said. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

Beyond distributing two billion COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable and remote communities in the world, the Alliance aims to build vaccine confidence, champion equitable access to vaccines globally, and raise critical funds for vaccine rollout and emergency response. UNICEF is the largest buyer and distributor of vaccines worldwide.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

Global Voices blogger Jennifer Brea has her own Afri-focused blog here. I've found it the most frequent source of news on the current crisis in Guinea. Sometimes he writes about innovative appropriate technology projects, but often it's a more typical industry he discusses - a successful iron foundry in Nigeria, for example.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Crew Change draws on data from S5 Agency World , a global port agency, to keep on top of quarantine, testing and vaccination requirements, which are constantly changing. My co-founder Hrishi [Olickel] and I examined the problem and seeing the growing complexity of global lockdowns, realized it was a problem that was here to stay.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Dennis, the agencys new principal deputy chief financial officer, is a former partner at the global consulting giant EY, also commonly known by its original name, Ernst & Young. And so now we have an attempt to force the government to use it, she said, with the most vulnerable people serving as guinea pigs. No one wants to use it.

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Futurism

MAY 10, 2025

Though armed conflict is becoming increasingly rare as the decades go by, global military spending is rising sharply with each passing year, reaching unprecedented numbers in the history of warfare. Much of that spending is fueled by the rise of the military tech industry.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. Some say they feel like guinea pigs, building cool stuff so that Facebook can see what works and eventually buy them out or copy them. It’s defeatism masquerading as strength, and mirrors Trump’s foreign policy. Evan Osnos / The New Yorker ).

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 10, 2025

and China are meeting in London on Monday to try and shore up a fragile truce in a trade dispute that’s roiled the global economy. The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week , applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

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Fast Company Tech

MAY 15, 2025

For years, global stars have traveled to West Africa as ambassadors of humanitarian and anti-corruption efforts: Rihanna in Senegal urging world leaders to donate aid, Bono in Ghana championing transparency as the best vaccine against corruption. The complaint argues the money earned should be given to citizens of those African nations.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The celebrated director of the scathing satire Parasite returns with a parable set in a future where Earth is a man-made global disaster. The backdrop to Mickey 17 is one of global politics, economic inequality, and fearmongering as a recruiting tool. It's not that Mickey thinks of himself as noble in his human guinea-pigging.

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