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Luis Sosa, Technology Innovation For All In Latin America
Convinced that technology is not a privilege but a right for all, visionary Luis Sosa has positioned his company to expand access to mobile technology and create a connected global community. Latin America is leading the global mobile growth trend and has become an open field for fierce competition among manufacturers and carriers.
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Nearly 300,000 Suicides In India So Far From GMO Crop Failures
The Western media is steeped in denial about the true damage being caused by genetically modified (GM) crops, especially in the developing Third World. But despite the lies you may have heard from mainstream news sources, nearly 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995 as a direct result of mounting debt and crop failures associated with GMO crops, and mainly cotton crops that were forcibly converted to patented, transgenic varieties owned by Big Biotech...
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Open Development Technology Alliance
Open invitation for feedback: The World Bank wants to hear your views on seven new research papers launched under the Open Development Technology Alliance. The papers consider the relevance and transferability of Open Data for development and how to empower citizens through ICTs.
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Refusing To Share: How The West Created BRICS New Development Bank
...The recent creation of the New Development Bank by the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which will compete with the IMF and World Bank, is yet another example of how international control is skittering away from those nations that are failing to adapt to a changing world...
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State of Health: Why A Global Approach Is Key To Solving Health Care’s Biggest Challenges
A lot of attention has been paid to the idea that patients, in particular those from the U.S., can now travel to other countries to get surgery or other treatments at lower cost than what’s available locally. But the idea that patients will be likely to travel to find the best deal in treatment, no matter where it is, has been overblown in my opinion (and as recently outlined in The Economist).
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