If you want a model for how the world can solve its most pressing problems in the 21st Century, it is the posse. As governance systems go, the Wild West approach of rounding up a few available hands and driving the bad guy out of town is certainly messy, but, if our favourite westerns are […]
“The ‘oh, woe is me’ thing, we’ve just got to get over that. The world has changed. It’s happened.” So said Beth Frerking at a social entrepreneurship conference organised by students at Harvard Business School on February 27th-28th. The “it” in question is the shock to the news media caused by the combination of economic […]
“This week Ashton Kutcher (aka @aplusk) broke the one million mark in Twitter followers and introduced Oprah (@oprah) to the phenomenon. He’s also using his fame and Twitterlebrity to raise awareness of malaria and ask fans to support Malaria No More in sending insecticide-treated mosquito nets to African countries where they are needed most.” So […]