Posts Tagged as ‘action’

14 October 2009

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

Register now and contribute tomorrow!

29 January 2009

Share Fair 09 already finished

Ok, the Share Fair is well finished and I keep on putting pieces together after that nice, funny, interesting, free, relaxing, tiring, visionary week.

Soon, I’m going to blog some internal reflections.

19 September 2008

New connection for the South of the world

It is called O3b and stands for other3billion: that’s to say the 3 billion people who are not connected yet to the Internet. It is a new initiative funded by Google, Liberty Global, and HSBC to build a new telecommunications infrastructure, with 16 satellites, offering high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging countries.
The service is supposed [...]

10 June 2008

Prices are going down. Are we ready to exploit new possibilities?

Last year we discussed about the value of the iPhone and the most common doubts were about the price of the device. Yesterday Mr jobs launched the version 2 of his jewel and ops!!!, now the price is right!! The suggested price is now 199 USD, that is to say around 130 EUR. It was [...]

12 January 2008

Mongolia and the power of human relationship

Mongolia is a very interesting country. Both on the geographical and the social point of view. Human relationships are so important there that everything relays on mutual support. Why?
Here is my explanation. The country is huge, more than 1.5 million square km (five times Italy and almost half of West Europe) while the population is [...]

1 October 2007

Free Burma!

International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October

Free Burma! International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without [...]

27 September 2007

Let’s sustain the campaign for freedom in Myanmar

It is time to use the power of the web to sustain who is fighting a very difficult situation: Myanmar is dealing with repression from the dictatorship.
I strongly invite everyone who is reading this post to read blogs from Myanmar, watch videos on youtube, forward this call to friends. Let us orient the Internet traffic [...]

7 September 2007

Bill is “behind” but is far ahaed!

Summer time is such a good moment to spend time reading. I just read John Battelle’s book, “The search” and I found out that there is a man who invented so many interesting things that I couldn’t believe. I’m talking about Bill Gross. He is a great guy, he is a mind. Most of the [...]

3 July 2007

KM4DEV meeting in Zeist

Two weeks ago some of the members of the km4dev list met in Zeist, The Netherlands, for a three days workshop. I was there and it was a very interesting meeting.

People with different background and from very different contexts met and spoke freely about many different topics on knowledge management. You [...]

21 May 2007

Blogs to support communication

Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕) is 22 years old and lives in Beijing, China. Her husband, Hu Jia, works to uphold the human rights of Chinese AIDS patients. Unfortunately the local authorities do not accept his need for freedom and react arresting and keeping him in jail for long time.
Zeng does not accept this discrimination and decided [...]