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Archive for the 'Non Profit' Category
Amnesty International: Crazy Leaders
The crazy leaders that have grown out of the mess this planet has become during the last decades finally found some activities adequate for their personalities and talents.
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Data Visualization: Internet Censorship
A great visualization by Good Magazine and the Lifelong Friendship Society on Internet censorship around the world.
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Health: Millions of lives to save – XDR-TB
…Legendary photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a new, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that’s touching off a global medical crisis…
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Animation: Declaration of Human Rights
An outstanding animation – the best on that topic we have ever seen. The text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an Infographics animation.
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Development Aid: The Investment Banks of the Humanitarian Sector
We had some discussions during the last weeks and a few times we ended up with the same question:
Are there institutions / instruments in the Humanitarian / Non-Profit sector that could be compared to the mess in the banking sector specifically with the Investment banks - a species which in that habitat by today got almost extinct.
And yes we found them.
Created during the last decade on the back of the MDG, many have been installed with targets like deregulation of development funding (yes this did happen – aka budgetary aid aka the thin line along institutionalized corruption), avoidance of regulatory frameworks (e.g. via PPPs), avoidance of multi-national oversight across geo-political blocks (to go around the UN) or to just create the illusion of acting / transparency.
And these organizations share many properties with private sector Investment banks:
Fancy names – most of them answer to names like global, facility, fund, emergency plan. They are almost completely unregulated and their activities are at best opaque…
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FSF: High Priority Free Software Projects
The Free Software Foundation has published a list of software projects that are considered high priority – “…that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems…“
The projects on the list are not maintained by the FSF but are entirely supported by the free software community…
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