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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My proposal is that the world's knowledge should work for all of humanity. Some folks call newly developed knowledge "intellectual property," but this obscures the fact that we don't treat ideas and content the same way as we treat a house or land. What about literacy and education?

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. I had the feeling that there was something else that I could be doing with my passion for journalism and my knowledge of international reporting. That is pretty much what we go on.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

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garden urban education school food health This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 If you could tell them why they are important, what would you say? Finally, if you want more information about Big Vision Career and Project Consulting you can check out my website at brittbravo.com. Thanks for listening.