Saturday, February 07, 2009
Assistance to Africa – aiding or abetting?
'Africa has new trading partners. It doesn’t have to grovel to the west' more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 2/07/2009 01:50:00 PM 1 comments
Monday, June 02, 2008
Cross cultural partnerships
Includes template for partnerships, on open source model, drawn up by lawyer and anthropologist. Intended for nontraditional legal or commercial agreements.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 6/02/2008 04:47:00 PM 0 comments
Friday, December 07, 2007
U.S.$13 Million Grant Boosts Women in Agriculture
Gates Foundation funds jobs for women scientists, details here.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 12/07/2007 12:20:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Country Wins UK Support in War On Air Freighted Food
The battle to protect Kenyan suppliers of organic produce in their biggest market is heating up with the UK government and UN agency ITC throwing their weight behind developing world growers. more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 9/20/2007 08:09:00 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Workshop on Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values
Workshop in Conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2007)
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 9/18/2007 01:47:00 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies
"What are the ethical implications of the semantic web, biometrics, radio-frequency identification, location-based services, mesh and ubiquitous networking, grid computing and other new computing technologies? A study just released by UNESCO analyses likely consequences of different technological choices." From UNESCO news
UNESCO survey.pdf
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Posted by josh_u at 3/14/2007 01:33:00 PM 0 comments