Posted in ambiente, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energia, energy, enviroment, green, health, international organization, ngo, ong, resource, risorse, salute, sustainability, tagged acqua, ambiente, biodiversità, carburanti, cibo, CO2, cooperation, degradation, degrado, depletion, development, diversity of life, earth, ecologia, ecosistema, ecosistemi, ecosystem, ecosystems, enviroment, fiber, food, forest, fuel, impoverimento, incentivi perversi, legname, life, ma, millenium development goals, natural resources, nature, povertà, resources, risorse naturali, social ecosystem assessment, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo, water, well-being on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their [...]
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Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, international organization, lobby, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, security, sicurezza, sustainability, tagged banche, banchiere dei poveri, banker, banker to the poor, beneficienza, causes, charity, cooperation, cooperazione, dal basso, development, economia, economic development, economic system, economist, economy, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneurs, finanziamenti, from below, global elders, grameen, grameen bank, grameen foundation, imprenditori, lend, lenders, loan, loans, microcredit, microcredito, muhammad yunus, nobel, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, pace, peace, poor, povertà, poverty, premio nobel, prestiti, sistema economico, social development, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo economico, sviluppo sociale, turner, UN, united nations, united nations foundation, yunus on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics and is famous for his successful application of microcredit – the extension of small loans. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also [...]
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Posted in cooperation, ecosostenibilità, internet, ngo, ong, people, resource, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged aiuto, beneficienza, capital, connect people, cooperation, cooperazione, denaro, developing countries, developing world, donate, donations, donazioni, ecosostenibilità, enterpreneur, enterpreneurs, field partners, finanziatori, fund, help, imprenditori, investimento, istituti di microcredito, kiva, lend, lender, lending, loan, loans, mcrocredito, micro-lending, microcredito, microfinance, microfinance istitutions, microfunds, money, ngo, no profit, ong, paesi in via di sviluppo, partnerships, paypal, people, piccola impresa, piccoli imprenditori, poverty, prestare, prestito, small business, sustainable development, sustanaibility, sviluppo, sviluppo sostenibile on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses. It is a 501(c) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, supported by donations from its users and through partnerships with businesses and [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, internet, open source, people, resource, social network, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged business, citizen science, collaboration, cooperation, crowdsourcing, global market, jeff howe, open enterprise, open source, outsourcing, project, web 2.0, wikipedia on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article.
Examples: [...]
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Posted in IT, cooperation, free, international organization, internet, media, open source, people, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged collaboration, collaborazione, collective intelligence, cooperation, education, enciclopedia, encyclopedia, free, gratis, intelligenza collettiva, internet, jimmy wales, knowledge, larry sanger, no profit, sapere, technology, volunteers, web 2.0, wiki, wikimedia, wikipedia on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video: “Truth in Numbers”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the [...]
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Posted in cooperation, linux, media, open source, technology, tagged ajax, api, Cmos, co-developers, collective intelligence, computer, cooperation, creative amateur, creative commons, CSS, data, digital democracy, digital divide, flickr, free, GNU, google, intel, internet, IT, javascript, lightweight models, linux, mashup, media, microsoft, open application, open content, open data, open source, people, podcast, Rich Internet Application, richard stallman, social bookmarking, social network, social sharing, society, Syndacation, tagging, taxonomy, user generated content, voluntary, web 2.0, web application, weblog publishing, wiki, wikipedia, XML on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and [...]
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