| Miscellaneous Articles & Reports | ||||
| Your Job Is Change | ||||
| Business
is changing, and so is the role of the Change agent. This Fast Company article
brings forward the "Change Insurgent". Read about the job of the
Change Insurgent, The 10 Rulesof the Change Insurgent, How to be a Change
Insurgent etc. This article appeared in the October 2000 issue, but most of the principles are still sound. |
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| No Place Like Home | ||||
| Two New York architects are using design to address pressing social challenges -- for the homeless, for war refugees, even for public-school kids. Here's their blueprint. | ||||
| Genius at Work | ||||
| A Fast Company article about how Bill Strickland and his Pittsburg-based organisation are reshaping the business of social change, by offering a national model for education, training - and hope. | ||||
| The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship | ||||
| A very lucidly written paper from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which defines and explains the concepts of Entrepreneurship, and Social Entrepreneurship. | ||||
| Change Agent - Issue 35 | ||||
| This Fast Company article talks about torchbearers - what makes a person a torchbearer, and the qualities that set torchbearers apart. Although it was first published in the June 2000 issue, it still holds strong. | ||||
| The Perfect Vision of Dr. V. | ||||
| Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy's Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai is a model of selfless work making a difference to society. The way he runs the hospital, and his inspiration behind it, serves as a wonderful model for managing your life and work. | ||||
| Fast Foundation | ||||
| Zoe Baird, president of the Markle Foundation, has stitched together a Web of thinkers and innovators who are wrestling with some of the most vexing problems of the digital economy. Read about their remarkable achievements. | ||||
| Free Software/ Free Science | ||||
| This
article draws a parallel between Science and the Free Software movement,
trying to arrive at a conclusion as to the factors which instigate people
to work for both - with no apparent monetary gains. Kelty, builds up a case for the reputation economy, for "the more widely scientists make their intellectual property available to others, the more securely it becomes identified as their property." |
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| The Dream Deferred | ||||
| In advance of his RealTime Philadelphia keynote presentation, the elder son of America's greatest civil-rights leader offers provocative ideas on how to combine economic growth, digital innovation, and a commitment to social justice. | ||||
| Enron Is Dead. Long Live Enron | ||||
| An article that builds up a case for the innovations that Enron pioneered - the primary among them being the trading of energy as a true commodity. Erick Schonfeld compares Enron with Drexel Burnham Lambert who helped create and popularize the junk bond market, only to land in trouble by promoting some overly aggressive deals. Though Drexel no longer exists, but the junk bond market still flourishes. | ||||
| The Durex Global Survey 2001 (Zip File) | ||||
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This annual survey carried out by Durex, provides an insight into the changing sexual attitudes and behaviours. This year, it was carried out across 28 countries and surveyed a total of 18,500 adults across 16 years to 55 years split equally between men and women. |
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| Human Development Report 2001 | ||||
| The theme for UNDP's Report for 2001 was " Making new technologies work for Human Development. | ||||
| Development and technology enjoy an uneasy relationship: within development circles there is a suspicion of technology-boosters as too often people promoting expensive, inappropriate fixes that take no account of development realities. Indeed, the belief that there is a technological silver bullet that can "solve" illiteracy, ill health or economic failure reflects scant understanding of real poverty. | ||||
| Building Digital Bridges | ||||
| International Chairman, Vernon Ellis on why Accenture is committed to finding digital opportunities to bridge social and economic divides. | ||||
| Human Rights in the UK (PDF format) | ||||
| This guide aims to provide a clear understanding of recent UK experience in human rights, and sets out useful human rights resources. It includes an overview of human rights in the UK, covering current themes and issues, a list of key organisations working in the area, and a bibliography of human rights texts. | ||||
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