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• Leaders meet to elect EU president

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 145
  Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament.Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political presence ...
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• Opportunities in microinsurance

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 129
  We’ve been big supporters (read our previous coverage here ) of the various weather and catastrophe related microinsurance programs being piloted around the world over the last few years. While not perfect, these schemes are helping to get much needed cover to business people in developing countries to help them ...
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• Leaders meet to elect EU president

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 135
  Experts have said the president should be a technocrat who can provide unity and build consensus among the EU’s main institutions – the council of nations for the 27 member states, the European Commission and the European parliament. Glyn Ford, a former Labour MEP, told Al Jazeera that building a political ...
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• The Top 10 Mobile Applications of 2012

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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• Person-to-person micro-lending website

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 127
  Canadians Matt and Jessica Flannery have set up the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending non-profit website, Kiva.org, to help low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, thereby fighting global poverty. On the Kiva.org website potential lenders can browse through profiles of low-income entrepreneurs ...
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• Mobilizing the Web for the Developing World: Inside the World Wide Web Foundation with CEO Steve Bratt, Part 2

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  IT , Web , Development Wade Roush wrote: Yesterday we ran the first part of our interview with Steve Bratt, the CEO of the new World Wide Web Foundation , which was unveiled on November 15 by Web inventor Tim-Berners-Lee. The foundation aims to empower people in developing regions to access ...
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• Open access and the developing world - read the latest

  
  BioMed Central — Authority: 464
  As part of Open Access Week last month, Walter H. Curioso, M.D., M.P.H, Research Professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, talks about his views of open access and how it can help in developing countries .  In other open access news, Denise Nicholson recently published her Tips for Developing Countries ...
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• Equatel Brings Text Messaging Payphones to the Developing World

  
  MobileBehavior — Authority: 123
  Phone sharing is a cultural norm for many in India and certain African countries, places where individual ownership is out of the question and network reception is weak. Jan Chipchase has discussed the kiosks that spring up with little more than a mobile phone and a sign with call rates. In hopes of standardizing ...
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• Fat Map

  
  Carsons Post — Authority: 517
  In this ‘fat map,’ nations grow or shrink depending on how much the average person eats. It’s a map of starvation and gluttony. Posted in Developing World, Health
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• Research highlights need to address hemophilia in developing wor...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  (North Carolina State University) When modern medicine finds a way to treat a medical condition, people often think that the problem is solved. But we also have to find ways to get that treatment into the hands of those who need it. For example, new research shows that much more needs to be done to help get existing ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• A rural corner of India gets a slice of the outsourcinig boom

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 133
  The headline from todays New York Times is "Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom," and in it Lydia Polgreen tells of an experiment by some Indian entrepreneurs to give remote parts of the country an opportunity to share in the economic boom that has been largely limited to urban areas. The company, Rural ...
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• The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 539
  While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan’s natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country’s actual reserves, there is another country further east whose energy and mineralogical reserves have been overlooked – Uzbekistan. While a number of factors ...
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• Poor nutrition stunting growth

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Poor nutrition is still causing major problems in the developing world - despite some progress being made.
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• Bhopal Disaster Site Opened for Publicity Stunt

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 539
  A little under 25 years ago, before midnight on December 2nd 1984, a major venting of lethal methyl isocyanate occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Thousands were killed, and toxic waste continues to contaminate the local water supply to this day. To mark the anniversary and to "dispel ...
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• Rwandans find few physical scars from past war

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  War and civil strife have a lasting effect on the societies that they strike. Although many attempts have been made to quantify the impacts, a recent PLoS One study shows just how difficult this can be. In 1994, some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda as ethnic tensions exploded into an attempted genocide. Now, ...
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• Four Dead in South Africa Over Measles Vaccine Fears

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 539
  South Africa is in the grip of a Measles epidemic that has affected over 2,000 people and killed four, with the majority of cases occurring in the Guateng region. But an unusual feature of this outbreak is that it isnt necessarily poorer families being effected. The South African Department of Health have noted ...
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• Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)

  
  Open (minds, finds, conversations)... — Authority: 495
  Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute ’s Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich , programme director at one of the most interesting open source projects in the world, Ushahidi . If you don’t know it, Ushahidi is an open source platform for communicating in a crisis. At simplest, it ...
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• World population and agricultural aid

  
  Commodity Corner — Authority: 120
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• Pill does not cure gender inequality

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 539
  There’s a very illuminating leader in The Lancet last week about maternal mortality and the fact that despite sustained global campaigning efforts there has been little progress on the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal deaths by 75% by 2015. The article makes some good suggestions for why this has ...
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