Fighting poverty through connecting people [Fast Company]
Rey Ramsey’s mission of social change starts with the home and leads to the Web. Read full story
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Category Socio-cultural change
Sun Microsystems “Participation Age” event at U.N.
The Participation Age is all about access, built on a model of networked human beings who share, interact, and solve problems, via telephone, internet, and a myriad of other ways of connecting. Their participation creates ideas, information, opportunities, and value-social…
Taking IT global
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. TakingITGlobal – which works with UN…
Rethinking the identity of Cittadellarte, the foundation of Michelangelo Pistoletto
During the last five months, I have been working intensively with Michelangelo Pistoletto and the staff of his foundation, Cittadellarte, on a clearer definition of Cittadellarte’s core identity, which had become a little diffuse after several years of fast growth…
Beyond Borders 7: Art and Social Change
“Almost Real” is the title of the 7th issue of the magazine Beyond Borders. It is devoted to art and social change.Beyond Borders is published by the European Cultural Foundation, Europe’s only independent, non-national and pan-European cultural foundation. Click…
A beginner’s guide to changing the world [Christian Science Monitor]
It helps to be persistently joyful and joyfully persistent. Read full review
Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte present at Venice Biennale
Michelangelo Pistoletto and his foundation Cittadellarte present “The Third Paradise” at the Biennale of Venice. They will occupy the entire island of San Servolo, which is located between the Giardini and Lido all through the summer. The opening events are…
From counterculture to computer culture [Red Herring]
John Markoff’s “What the Doormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer” makes the case that the personal computer is intimately bound up with the growth of the counterculture in the 1960s. The personal computer’s origins in the…
NextBillion.net
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Their goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs…
Ian Davis (McKinsey) on business and society [The Economist]
By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis of McKinsey. Read full story
For all who have never climbed a tree [Christian Science Monitor]
‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ Read full review
Desert campaign to save humanity [BBC]
The Dalai Lama and a host of Nobel prize winners have joined actor Richard Gere for a conference aimed at righting the wrongs of modern humanity. Read full story
Massive change: now everyone can design solutions [NPQ]
Bruce Mau, the famed designer and collaborator with Frank Gehry, is co-author of Massive Change. His firm, Bruce Mau Design, is based in Toronto. He spoke with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels recently. Read interview
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That’s what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind.…
Institute without Boundaries
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Social entrepreneurs and Davos [BBC]
“Davos diary: This is not about money” by Jim Fruchterman, President, The Benetech Initiative. Read full story
The good company [The Economist]
Corporate social responsibility as the tribute that capitalism pays to virtue. Read full story