End of the Year Reflections
Traveling, especially by train, often provides time for reflection and writing. I am spending the end of the year traveling in India. Here are some of my reflections on the [...]
Traveling, especially by train, often provides time for reflection and writing. I am spending the end of the year traveling in India. Here are some of my reflections on the [...]
Through the wonderful technology of livestreaming and a number of conference organizers who planned livestreaming into their events, I was able to travel recently to conferences and workshops in Rome, [...]
In July 2012, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a 27 member High-level Panel (HLP) to advise on a new set of global development goals. These new goals are to replace the [...]
I have again returned to the CIVICUS World Assembly this year after having last attended in 2010. Here is my blog post from that session. Many of the themes this [...]
With the closing of the Global Health Council (GHC) reactions have included shock/surprise and sadness. As it evolved over its almost 40 years, it became an important convener for the [...]
The beginning of January is a time for reflections and can be a chance for new beginnings: personally, professionally and as world citizens. As this “New Year’s Time” piece notes [...]
Earlier this year I wrote about ‘awareness raising campaigns'. Although the 7 Billionth Person mark is not an awareness raising campaign per se, it has many of the same characteristics. [...]
Although I generally don’t like Contests, they do exist, and sometimes participation is important. Earlier this year a partnership of the Gates Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USAID and [...]
At the end of June I had the good fortune to be among a team of facilitators from different countries helping with the Ashoka Changemakers Week in France. I facilitated [...]
Those of us who work in the “social good” arena professionally come in contact with many good causes to support. This is the first of periodic “thematic” blog posts on [...]