Is the natural destination of using biometrics that we no longer use people’s names? Perhaps we need to consider what it means to be seen, to be human.
Becoming Robots or Humans?
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From the Blog on Aid
Feedback: Where did my money go?
Most often, when we give money to charity we are giving it in response to an appeal about a disaster to help a person who's story we have been told. Yet after we give our money, we rarely hear where our money went. Given that we live in the time of the WikiLeaks,...
Challenge the Norm
Recently, Seth Godin wrote a short little blog post about non-profits and innovation. He argues that due to the fact the organisations are not profit driven, in order to please shareholders they have a higher responsibility to be relentless in their focus on...
Where does your money go?
Publish What You Fund - a UK-based lobby group - is wanting governments to be more transparent with what they fund using their Aid budgets. Overseas Development Aid (ODA) is a tiny amount of the annual budgets of donor countries (for almost all donor countries it is...
Ever wish you could help?
days have gone by, almost a week now, since the earthquake that devastated Haiti and today another aftershock...ever sit around at home seeing the images on tv, hearing the stories on the radio, and see more of everything on the internet and wish you could jump on a...
Let’s talk about Haiti
I have been watching the news, checking blogs, reading emails, skyping to understand what has happened in Haiti. no, i am not on my way there, i am staying in east africa for the moment, but it still deserves our attention. I visited Haiti in 2001 and will never...