Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

“The power of the people is much more powerful than the people in power.”

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Yes.

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Recognizing World Aid’s Day and progress

December 1st is World Aids Day. Last year nearly 1/2 million babies were born with HIV. By 2015, that number could be zero.

Make a Difference: 7 Ways You Can Help the Fight Against AIDS/HIV

1) Help Raise Awareness through Facebook. Join the (2015) RED Campaign by turning your Facebook, and the world, (RED) for World AIDS Day. http://f.joinred.com/nJJ

2) Help Raise Awareness through Twitter. Tweet about it with tags like #turnred or @joinred or #worldaidsday. You’ll notice your Twitter posts will turn red too!

3) Learn about World AIDS/HIV and share stories and knowledge with others!

• Read up on World Aid’s Day.
• Check out photos from the Fight Against AIDS/HIV. 
• Watch the Lazarus Documentary Film by (RED) & HBO [30-min vid]

4) Donate to an organization working towards AIDS/HIV prevention. Here are 4 organizations I’d recommend:

• UN Foundation for AIDS
• The Global Fund
• Avert HIV and AIDS (makers of this video)
• A local AIDS organization for your hometown. AIDS Prevention isn’t needed just in Africa; it’s needed in our local communities too. Research orgs in your community.

5) Join Jumo Beta to get the latest from organizations working to prevent AIDS/HIV in Africa. Jumo is a social network connecting individuals and organizations who want to change the world and it launched only days ago. It’s ability to connect changemakers is brilliant. It will be revolutionary… (blog from me on it coming soon…)

6) Find a local meet up in your community to learn and discuss the issue.

7) Inspire a friend, a sibling, a parent or someone you care for about the issue.

These are just a few things you can do. Feel free to share more ways we can get involved!

 Biz Stone, CEO of Twitter

The leadership team behind Twitter has got it right. Biz Stone, CEO of Twitter, speaks on the company, their values and their vision for the future.

Stone struck a cord with me when he shared a piece of the philosophy behind Twitter’s leadership and their role in the community: firstly, that they are providing a service that can make a positive impact on the world, and secondly, that they have a responsibility to address local and global issues and they are working to continuously reflect that.

Stone also noted that he first recognized Twitter’s real potential to impact the world  at an Interactive User Festival in March 2007, when Twitter had about 75,000 users. It was the first time he saw “rudimentary individuals in real-time coming together as one.”

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tells All in Interview (2010)

Facebook offers email messaging service.

Kiva Co-Found Jessica Jackley on how microloans are connecting people + changing the world: poverty, money and love

Entrepreneurs are everywhere. Kiva gets it. Founder Jessica Jackley speaks about how Kiva came to be, the power of people helping each other succeed and sharing stories.

Kiva.org, an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money, called microloans, to entrepreneurs throughout the world.

What a beautiful young lady with brilliant words.  Watch 15:45 to the end. She inspires me :)

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Richard Florida explores the characteristics of America’s leading social media centers.

Interesting. If only there was a Canadian version of this.

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Atomic Tom: A band that uses iPhone Apps to make music

Yet another example of how technology is enabling creative expression and more unique opportunities for collaboration.

Take me out by Atomic Tom, NYC subway

IDEO takes a collaborative design approach to climate change through their Living Climate Change platform. Watch the intro video to learn more you can innovate with them.

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Living Climate Change is a devoted space to support fresh thinking and share provocative ideas while exploring the future through design thinking. Members can share thoughts and ideas and help expand a conversation that may spark solid solutions to climate change.

Hosted…

2011 TED Winner: JR, an anonymous photographer

An interesting pick for this year’s TED Winner. Who is this mystery man?

• Learn about him and his worldwide unauthorized photo-pasting project on TED.
• Check out his interview with the New York Times and Project Gallery too.

The Girl Effect

Adolescent girls are capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world. Girls are the most likely agents of change, but they are often invisible to their societies and to our media.

Given the chance 600 million adolescent girls in developing countries can unleash the world’s greatest untapped solution to poverty. This is the Girl Effect.

If we can release girls living in poverty, they will do the rest.

You can be part of that change. In fact without you it won’t happen. Join the conversation and let the world know what the Girl Effect is capable of.

Talk it up. Spread the word.

The 10 Challenges We Need to Help Girls Overcome

1. No ID. Without a birth certificate or an id, a girl in the developing world doesn’t know and can’t prove her age, protect herself from child marriage, open a bank account, vote, or eventually get a job. That makes it hard to save the world.
2. Illiteracy. 70% of the world’s out-of-school children are girls. Girls deserve better. They deserve quality education and the safe environments and support that allow them to get to school on time and stay there through adolescence.
3. Pregnancy. Child marriages are the norm in many cultures where women’s bodies aren’t considered their own property. Pregnancy is the leading cause of death for girls 15-18 years old. Girls have a right to be able to protect their health & their bodies.
4. HIV. When girls are educated about HIV, they stand a better chance of protecting themselves. But education is not enough. Girls need to be empowered and supported to make their own choices.
5. Work. If girls have the skills for safe and decent work, if they understand their rights, if they are financially literate and considered for non-traditional jobs at an appropriate age, if they get their fair share of training and internships, they will be armed and ready for economic independence.
6. Money goes to men. Less than two cent or every international aid dollar spent in the developing world is earmarked for girls. And yet when a girl has resources, she will reinvest them in her community at a much higher rate than a boy would. If the goal is health, wealth, and stability for all, a girl is the best investment.
7. They’re girls. Not women yet. They deserve their own category. They need to be a distinct group when we talk about aid, education, sports, civic participation, health and economics. Yes, they are future mothers. But they actually live in the present.
8. Stand up for girls. Girls need advocates to write, speak up, lobby, and work to enforce good laws and change discriminatory policies.
9. She should be a statistic. We wont know how to help girls until we know what’s going on with them. Hey, all you governments and NGOs and social scientists: you’re accountable! We need an annual girl report card for every country so we can keep track of which girls are thriving and which girls are not.
10. Everyone gets on board, or we’re all overboard. Boys, girls, moms, dads. If we don’t all rally to support girls, nothing is going to change. Not for them, and not for us. Change starts with you. Start sharing.

Source: The Girl Effect

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