Right now, there are an estimated 300,000 children around the world who have been forced to take up weapons - many as young as 6 years old.
Since 1998, War Child Canada has been working to educate and mobilize Canadians on this issue. War Child is known for to creating innovative and unconventional outreach strategies, [...]
Oh, climate change. Oh, the UN. A giant concept and a giant organisation, both with limited access points for the public, guarenteed to make you feel small, disempowered and unheard. Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s the UN Climate Change Conference, and this year it’s happening in Poland!
As a Warsaw resident, I got [...]
In the 19th century, do-it-yourself x-ray kits became popular as people x-rayed their own boots, hands, and plants (not to mention weirder stuff) to find out what the invisible world really looked like. Wired’s Alexis Madrigal has a great post about this featuring links to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s Brought To Light: Photography [...]
Yesterday morning, 1.2 million people in 6 major US cities read a morning edition of the New York Times that was a little…different. The Times was dated July 4, 2009, and announced that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended; global warming was fixed; and the economy was on the upswing. Good news! Or [...]
Cartoons are such potent generators of social change, and so under fire in terms of media freedom, that Cartooning For Peace has become a regular side event to the United Nations World Press Freedom day.
This group started in response to the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed Controversy, when a Danish newspaper printed 12 cartoons that were intended to [...]
This morning saw a sharp rise in the markets - known as a “dead cat bounce” by financial analysts. After a spectacular crash, the stock markets often rebound sharply - but this isn’t a real indication of improvement. Apparently, even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.
Wondering how [...]
There comes a time, usually if you’re working remotely or have no office, where you really need a way to share files, documents, messages and pictures online between a lot of people for free.
Easy, I said at my last Amnesty International meeting, we’ll just set up a Google non-profits account - all their project management [...]
Are you a hacker who’s socially minded? A few weeks ago we wrote about how Estonian hackers were assisting Georgia with online defenses against ‘cyber attacks’ by the Russians.
The latest twist is that Wired (who cracked this story in the first place) has put a link to an open-source defense project on their blog ‘Danger [...]
A remote funding developer. They work from home, they take up less support costs and they don’t involve supervisory time - what’s not to love? I worked as a remote funding researcher recently, and while I’m not willing to flat out say it doesn’t work (comments welcome from people doing just fine at this job) [...]
When violence exploded in Georgia this week, the Estonians helped out the Georgians in an unusual way - by keeping the Georgian news website ‘Civil.ge‘ up and running despite attempts from the Russians to hack it. Wired broke this weird story of the Estonians and Google getting political - you can read it here.
What [...]
