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Foreign Affairs – How to Help Poor Countries – Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian (tags: development economics poverty AIDS)

The Collegiate Inventors Competition (tags: scholarship invention) What’s Ahead for 2007? Knowledge@Wharton Network Surveys the Globe – Knowledge@Wharton (tags: Wharton K@W 2007 Outlook China India emerging markets global) Design in 2006: A year of innovation and utility – Style & Design – International Herald Tribune (tags: 2006 technology Design innovation top list)

I was reading Made To Stick..(I know, I know… I’m slow. it takes me a while to FINISH books because when I find something interesting I have to run to google or wikipedia for further research.. its a sad pathology, really). Well in this case (as it does rarely), it proved fruitful. Made To Stick [...]

This makes me a little sick. If this product placement/word-of-mouth isn’t painstakingly obvious, I dont know what is. Why don’t marketers just make freaking tatooos of people’s favorite media and bands and encourage teens to put it on their foreheads and walk around?? Or wait.. Why not just target the “Influentials“? …After all, the token [...]

37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design See it full size. (tags: webdesign design patterns usability) Technology Review: Part I: Philanthropy’s New Prototype (tags: laptop olpc philanthropy technology computer)

Tech Hot Growth 50 (tags: innovation technology growth)

Harvard University Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowships in Social Entrepreneurship (tags: development socialentrepreneurship) One Thing all entrepreneurs should know (tags: entrepreneurship business advice)

Africa Foundation (tags: Africa design BoP water AIDS health) Minding the Planet: Minding The Planet — The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web (tags: semanticweb web2.0 Semantic Web technology toread essays) Creating Passionate Users: Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article… (tags: presentation speaking powerpoint)

People Planet Profit: The Triple Bottom Line trifecta I was listening to a Stanford Center for Social Innovation podcast yesterday and William McDonough, who was the speaker, mentioned the phrase "Triple Top Line". I’ve heard of triple bottom line, the notion that business performance should be measured by "People, Planet, and Profit"…The fact that its [...]

Headlines – Conference Asks: What Drives Innovation? – Stanford GSB To overcome petrification, advised Jordan, a high-tech company, especially, must keep an open ear to its youngest, greenest members. “Often the best ideas come from employees under 30 who have a fundamentally different relationship with the computer than the older folks,” he said. “This means [...]

 Sam Pitroda is a smart man.   You should listen to him!   ::wags finger::   India News Effective designing can solve India’s problems: PitrodaDec 5, 2006, 7:00 GMT New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) India’s problems of poverty, infrastructure, water, education, health, agriculture and population can be solved through an effective design mechanism for those ‘at the [...]