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South Africa's Desmond Tutu receives US awardThe United States has given a prestigious award to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. The retired archbishop was an important figure in South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle. The U.S. State Department presented him on Friday the 2008 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understandi... |
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Imprisoned China blogger, human rights activist Hu Jia receives Sakharov PrizeThe imprisoned Chinese blogger and human rights activist Hu Jia today received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize. Snip from NYT article: The award was a pointed rebuke of China’s ruling Communist Party that came as... |
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CIO of Gap Inc. and CIO of myShape, Inc. Join INETCO Board of DirectorsRetail Technology Leaders look towards transaction monitoring as a strategic technology that can lead to reduced service disruption and significant operational efficiencies ... |
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus on micro credit’s long shadowMuhammad Yunus had the vision 32 years ago to create a social business. A Bangladesh professor, he was appalled by the country’s poverty. He made a loan to a group of poor villagers. They used the money to start businesses and paid him back. So began “micro credit.” He turned th... |
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The 2008 Tech Awards and Muhammad Yunus - Watch Live!I'm looking forward to tonight's 2008 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity in San Jose. The event is organized by The Tech Museum and it is one of my favorite events of the year. I'm particularly looking forward to meeting Muhammad Yunus. I'm a huge fan of Mr Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Pr... |
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Might Spoofers Use A Fake Name? [Journalismism]Confidential to Reuters and all others quoting "Bertha Suttner," alleged spokeswoman for the fake New York Times prankster group: Bertha Suttner was an Austrian pacifist and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905. Possible pseudonym alert. ... |
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