Blog (2006 - 2012)

• Visit gone awry: Detention roils a US-German family
  no comment needed
  (tags: discrimination)
   
• Business environment in Tajikistan: what's new?

• Corruption: tracking vulnerabilities
  See especially the link to a "handbook" how-to avoid bribery
  (tags: corruption)
   
• Sudan's legendary Islamist takes a moderate view

• OGUNTE Global Tribal Network
  Link your business accumen to the passion that drives Social Innovators.

• Corruption: venial extortion or a happy compromise?
  (tags: corruption)
   
• mobile phone banking, the World Economic Forum and Vanity Fair's Africa splash

• Lighting the bottom of the pyramid
  It's there! The cooperation of IFC and Philips seems to have produced a tangible result

... so that was that. The loudest SOS in history. Funny though: Was it reality, or is/was it already a film? Just seconds after Sting's "message in a bottle" closed the show, the credit roll started running over the screen. Live cinemating and with a "copyright" sign at the end. Had no-one advised Al Gore on Copyleft, then? So let me finish for today with linking to the friends from dropping knowledge.

Good news - the IFC/Philips project (see IFC+Philips, a presentation from a 2005 Ethical Corporation conference) takes off now: bogolight!

• Hess Corporation Publishes 2006 Corporate Sustainability Report
  (tags: CSR reporting)
   
• Information Platform with News, Information, Research and Commentary on Maintaining Viable Communities, Local Economies and Justice

It's actually worthwhile to stop for a second and remember that poverty and climate change are intrinsically linked. As we have seen, World Bank, IMF and lots of UN efforts are not producing results on eradicating poverty and in creating sustainable livelyhoods. That's not a criticism against them, but rather against their role as being a political football (thanks to Michael Hopkins for that term) in a game that still has too many bad actors, bad governments and of, course, bad business.

A nice thing about a day of music around climate change: there's plenty of opinions around, the topic seems to be paramount (I'll look forward to the evening news...). N24 interviewed a climate change expert from Potsdam.