Duvet-Dayz.com: use this bar code to access our RSS feeds and posts on your mobile phone
Archive for the 'Non Profit' Tag
51 post(s) are associated with this Tag
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.
Continue reading…
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…
continue reading…
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…
continue reading…
AIDS: Condom ringtones
A new Anti-AIDS campaign in India is utilizing a quite unusual approach to overcome the reluctance of Indians to use condoms.
Supported by the BBC World Service Trust and the Gates Foundation the campaign provides a ringtone for mobile phones called “condom a cappella” that - when the phone rings - is loudly advertising the use of condoms. The objective of the campaign is to make condoms more socially acceptable and…
Continue reading…
Environment: WWF - It’s a beautiful day
A new clip for the WWF to raise awareness about Global Warming. We are shown - with black humor - how people have adapted to the changes in weather patterns and natural disasters.
A couple taking a stroll with their baby during a Hurricane, campers out in the “wilderness” that has become a burning forest and the “good people” still washing their cars on the weekend even while they’re drowning in the flood.
continue reading…
Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress
You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know - there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
continue reading…
Environment: MTV 3650
A short film for “MTV Switch” to help raise the awareness of global warming effects. The film combines live action and animation with toy-like clouds, cars, planes moving around a globe. Cities and traffic grows until the whole globe is over-run and choked by cities and pollution filled clouds.
According to the movie there are only about 10 years (3650 days) left until the pollution will…
continue reading…
Advertising: Red Cross compassion campaign
A simple and straight-forward but very powerful ad campaign for the International Red Cross / Red Crescent.
Three key humanitarian values and emotions - awareness, compassion and tolerance - are characterized as typical commodity containers used within todays “Aid work…”
continue reading…
Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
continue reading…
Climate Change: Greenpeace EfficienCity
The UK branch of Greenpeace has put a model of an ideal city of the future online. The virtual town called “EfficienCity” shows with animations, videos and lots of information how a climate friendly city might look like. It generates its own energy decentralized from local renewable resources vs. receiving it from a centralized grid of nuclear or coal power plants. Greenpeace uses this Sim-City of Energy to demonstrate a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, towards a more secure energy supply, cheaper electricity and heating bills and a whole new attitude towards energy…
continue reading…
