Mar 19, 2012

Do you know Rose Wataka? Probably not. Her message came to us via indabaXchange, our social network project, like a message in a bottle thrown into the sea. It barely had any real chance to be read and taken into account. Yet this message is not one that comes from another world. Rose Wataka lives in Webuye, a town of 19,000 inhabitants in the Bungoma District...

Feb 12, 2012

Revisited:  The French Interior Minister Condemns People of Civilizations other than His Own. By Dominique Bénard. The Interior Minister of the French Government, in an outlandish and peremptory statement, has directly attacked people of foreign origin living in France by saying: ?”There are patterns of behavior that have no place in our country, not...

Dec 30, 2011

“…Poverty is created by the system, and therefore, if you want to fight against poverty, we must change the system.” Muhammad YUNUS, Nobel Price 2006 We hear all about the social economy or solidarity economy but how do we define the social and solidarity economy? The social and solidarity economy is an economy at the service of...

Nov 24, 2011

“For we are all small powers now, and once again Greece is in the forefront of the fight for the future.”[1] Professor Mark Mazower, the New York Times on June 29, 2011 Greeks have been feeling really bad during the last two years, after the “crisis” took hold, along with the newly elected prime minister. Greeks feel bad, in the first place,  about...

Nov 6, 2011

Everyone knows the Grameen Bank founded by Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in developing micro-credit in poor countries. But have you ever heard of the BRAC, founded by another citizen of Bangladesh, Fazle Hasan Abed?  Mr. Abed has just received the first WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) prize for...