In the crowded field of corporate citizenship, an opportunity waits
When nonprofit TechSoup Global initiated a series of technology challenges in 2011 with help from Microsoft, the U.S. embassy in Bucharest and other partners in Romania, they didn’t know which issues the citizen entrepreneurs would tackle. As it turned out, corruption was on people’s minds.
On April 30, the World Wide Web turned 20 years old. In 1993, 133 million personal computers were sold in the developed world. Today, despite sales of over 300 million PCs, smart phones and tablets are out pacing personal computers. We are living in an unprecedented era of human mobility and rapid innovation.
AUSAID: Aid set to increase, but ODA target defered. Aid groups voice concerns
Concerns among Australian aid and development organizations that the government is set to further defer its 0.5 percent official development assistance spending commitment are set to be proved correct.