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OneWorld founders hand over the keys

Anuradha Vittachi and Peter Armstrong, co-founders of OneWorld, have retired. Their contribution to international development through applications of new media technologies over the last 18 years has been immense.

Published February 3, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged digital communications, oneworld

Global poverty needs global priority

The new OneWorld Global Poverty Guide strives to inject new energy into the reordering of global priorities that is needed more than ever to create a fairer world.

Published August 10, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged development data, economic growth, oneworld, poverty reduction

Assorted omens for Copenhagen climate agreement

The mood of last week’s World Business Summit on Climate Change was positive that climate negotiators will reach agreement in Copenhagen in December. But US Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, appears to be in hasty retreat from election promises.

Published June 1, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, climate change, oneworld, unfccc, US

Mobile Revolutions in the Developing World

In the same week, OneWorld UK gave presentations at the World Economic Forum in Davos and in the state of Bauchi in northern Nigeria. Pioneering applications of mobile phone technology are the common factor.

Published February 9, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, mobile for good, nigeria, oneworld, world economic forum

The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie

Syria has a thriving industry in the design and manufacture of imaginative women’s lingerie. A new book “The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie” reveals much about women’s freedom in the Arab world.

Published January 5, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, books, gender, oneworld, syria

Safe water images contribute to campaign success

The Millennium Development Goal for access to drinking water is on track to reach its target. One possible explanation is that positive safe water images contribute to campaign success.

Published November 24, 2008
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged gamma, oneworld, water and sanitation
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things