August 7, 2014
Categories: Strategies
Tags: Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a simple question for education technology company ConnectEDU, which sought bankruptcy protection in April: Where’s our grant money? Source: blogs.wsj.com The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a simple question for education technology company ConnectEDU, which sought bankruptcy protection in April: Where’s our money? In July 2013, the well-known […]
August 6, 2014
Categories: Campaigns
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July 28, 2014; Foreign Policy How quickly our sector drops issues! Remember the vigorous debate about the benefits and damage from the international assistance delivered to Haiti in the wake of the nation’s devastating January 2010 earthquake? Clare Lockhart, the founder and executive director of the Institute for State Effectiveness, and Johanna Mendelson Forman, a […]
August 5, 2014
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Prime minister and cabinet members attend leadership workshop with MIT professors Professor Deborah Ancona, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, Professor Michel DeGraff Two MIT professors traveled to Haiti this summer to conduct an intensive leadership workshop with the country’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, and more than 50 Haitian government ministers and cabinet members. MIT Sloan professor […]
July 31, 2014
Categories: Infrastructure
Tags: africa, education, free, Internet
85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can’t afford data plans. So Facebook’s accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android and web app for the developing world with free data access to a limited set of services including Facebook, Messenger, Wikipedia, and Google Search. It also provides local health, employment, weather, and women’s […]
July 30, 2014
Categories: Recipients
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A week spent following a Haitian teenager turns up some shocking, and heartbreaking, details of life as an unpaid child laborer. Source: www.nytimes.com A week spent following a Haitian teenager turns up some shocking, and heartbreaking, details of life as an unpaid child laborer. See on Scoop.it – Restavek/ Ayiti Now Corp