Blog (2006 - 2012)

• Shell calls for government intervention over climate change
  Companies calling for regulation - and breaking the gridlock on regulation vs voluntarism. I remember a letter to Tony Blair from CEOs, including Shell's, in 2005 on this issue. Anyone surprised why it takes government so long to act?
  (tags: lobbying climate change)

Recent statistics point out that approx 1.3 billion people have access to the internet.

• Responding: Are social networks good for society?
  ... why do we always want to migrate to the next level?
  (tags: social tech)
   
• Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blog

• The Economic, Ethical and Cultural Effects of International Outsourcing
  (tags: India supply chain ethics economics and development)

• Why Kosovo's independence bid is unique

It's all very well that most companies by now claim to report along the guidelines of GRI. However, even the ones that indeed do so (there are a few hundreds that only claim but are not approved) seem to get some problems with this.

It's one of those interdisciplinary questions still unanswered: If you have 50 people on above issue in the room, there'll be 45 of them ICT-people - that is, at least, when you're attending the annual AAAS conference in Boston.

• Chad-Cameroon pipeline: Corruption and double standards (Bretton Woods Project)
  I thought it timely to draw up this "old" news on Chad - adding: why does no-one even asks if it's possible to held Exxon, Chevron and Petronas accountable for what's happening in Chad?

• Ivey Business Journal - Interview with Jeffrey Sachs
  Sachs on learnings from Asia, such as special economic zones, and that these would be beneficial to African countries, too.