Nike's Efforts to Empower Young Girls

While looking for inputs regarding action about alleviating poverty around the world, I came across the talk Social Innovation Conversations: Maria Eitel.

Beyond general interest, main lesson for me is that maturity is essential where there is the need for those who are involved in making things happen. She also emphasised that MONEY IS NOT THE PROBLEM, THE WILL IS THE PROBLEM!

Measuring now: Impact and Analysis with MIT Poverty Reduction Group! However, Google search has not yielded useful link about it, so I will have to continue looking.

Internet + spoken word

I have discovered the joy of podcasts since getting broadband last month. It is early days, so I am just finding my way around the amazing options available.

For instance, today I have listened to:
- Telegraph Podcast: 30mins intro to daily news (interesting - I hever read the paper!)
- Democracy Now: Amy Goodman radio program (USA - progressive, interesting)
- HBR Ideacast: Harvard Bussiness Review weekly podcasts (USA - boring, will go easy)
- John Cleese: listened to several of his podcasts (nowhere close to Michael Palin)
- Malcolm Gladwell: on Human Nature (very interesting, would really need the images that went with it)

This is just great - I sit by my computer, work and still I can be listening to interesting people from all over the world.

Long may it continue.