Catégorie : Project, Partnership, good work

a project of Center for Poverty Analysis CEPA Innovation Funds – and linked with CEPA on this blog.

Welcome to the Poverty Portal hosted by the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA). Poverty Portal is a platform for practitioners and researchers to obtain macro and micro level information on poverty in Sri Lanka using a variety of innovative and interactive features. Through wide scale dissemination of information, the Portal encourages informed decision and policy making practices … (full text Homepage).

News, Events; Maps, Stats; Help; Resource Library; Poverty Blog; Partners;
Address: Centre for Poverty Analysis, 29, Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka;
Contact.

About: Poverty Portal is an information sharing tool that acts as an online portal for practitioners and researchers who want to share or use information, and will pull together macro and micro level information on poverty in Sri Lanka. Continuer la lecture de « Poverty Portal »

Ridester’s mission is to provide the most affordable and effective intercity travel option in America by leveraging the power of community. Austin entrepreneur Jake Boshernitzan first conceived the Ridester idea while a college student at the University of Texas. He noticed that the campus’ and online ride boards were so disorganized and flakey that most people had given up on them. They lacked usability and finding people going the same way at the same time seemed only marginally more likely than finding a real Rolex at the flea market.
The Ridester Advantage: … (full text about).

Homepage;
Blog; Safety; a bug? Your Privacy; FAQs; Register/log in for: offer a ride, find a ride;
Address: Ridester, Headquarters, 5542 Valkeith Dr. Houston, TX 77096, USA;
Contact.

Ridester’s Terms and Conditions: THIS FOLLOWING USER AGREEMENT DESCRIBES THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH YB VISIONS, LLC OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES.   Continuer la lecture de « Ridester »

GLOBAL MALARIA PARTNERSHIP – also in french – Linked with Malaria in Africa. (Link: find Malaria in Africa also on a website named Compassion.com).

Roll Back Malaria is a global partnership initiated by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and the World Bank in 1998. It seeks to work with governments, other development agencies, NGOs, and private sector companies to reduce the human and socio-economic costs of malaria.

Homepage; Sitemap;
Malaria in Africa; Calendar; Links; Donate;
Address: Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization WHO, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland;
Contact and map.

What is Malaria: Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes. It was once thought that the disease came from fetid marshes, hence the name mal aria, ((bad air). Continuer la lecture de « Roll Back Malaria RBM »

a project of SMIP Electronic Resource Information & Learning Center at University of Wagening/NL

Found on Weitzenegger’s Newsletter/websites of the moment, June 2010.

… Managing for impact is a guiding framework that identifies and assists development workers to engage with multiple layers and factors that affect their work and the people they work with. The framework emphasizes the interdependence of these different layers while at the same time seeking to provide knowledge and practical information on each of them … (about SMI & MfI 1/2).

Homepage;
Strategic Guidance;  Operations; Monitoring & Evaluation; Learning;
(Contact) / Leave a Reply: scroll down on about.

About SMI & MfI 2/2 : … Managing for impact involves using appropriate methods, approaches and/or tools to undertake  four interlinking core areas of action:  Continuer la lecture de « Managing for Impact MfI »

a project of Media Freedom Foundation -see also in spanish

Linked with Media Freedom International MFI, and with Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire.

The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
TOP CENSORED STORIES; STORY NOMINATIONS; INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH; FEATURED ARTICLES on Twitter;
Censorship; Lectures; Lectures; Videos; Newsletter;  Support;
Address: Project Censored, c/o Media Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 571, Cotati, CA 94931, USA;
Contact.

About 2/2: WHAT IS MODERN CENSORSHIP? At Project Censored, we examine the coverage of news and information important to the maintenance of a healthy and functioning democracy.We define Modern Censorship as the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets. Continuer la lecture de « Project Censored International »