globalization

Peter Gabriel’s YouTube for Human Rights: The Hub

Peter Gabriel's human-rights group Witness embraces social media, creating a YouTube for unseen atrocities. With camera-equipped cell phones, ordinary people suddenly have the means to document their lives and share evidence of rights violations. The Hub allows anyone around the world to submit such clips to a central site where its target audience of activists can connect and take action.READ»

• Ten Musicians Who Rock The Web
• From Prog Rock To Prog Biz
• Music Goes Green
• Music's Invisible Money Machine

The Worldly Investor, David S. Waddell

Weekly Strategic Insight Friday, October 10, 2008 Rubber Room It would be an understatement to call this market period unprecedented. All of the economic, fundamental and technical research cannot explain the ...READ»

Eight Tips for Doing Business in Dubai

Hot or not (the weather, not you) in Dubai, a suit and tie is de rigeur for anyone associated with a resort. Since the whole emirate is more or less a resort, that dress code applies to everyone else as well. Women in Dubai on ...READ»

Doing Business in Dubai: Dos and Don'ts

Eight tips for good etiquette and cultural propriety.READ»

• From Wall Street to Dubai

From Wall Street to Dubai

Diary of a tech entrepreneur's adventures in the hot zone.READ»

• Eight Tips for Doing Business in Dubai
• What the Wall Street Crisis Means for Big Tech
• How Wall Street's Meltdown Will Affect Your Career
• Wall Street and the New Startup Economy

Business Intelligence

How are you thinking about addressing increasing commodity costs? Are their opportunities to hedge? Share your top ideas for improving supply chain performance in the face of extradorinary cost escalation.READ»

China Storms Africa

  By: Richard Behar Sun Jun 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM Since Fast Company published China Storms Africa in June of 2008, the article has itself stormed the media landscape. CNN called it "one of the most important magazine ...READ»

Special Report: China Storms Africa

With its resource-hungry push into the sub-Sahara, Beijing puts the planet to the test.READ»

China Saps Mozambique of Timber Resources

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia province, the country's poorest. Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along ...READ»

Mineral Wealth of the Congo

A simple stroll down the streets of Kinshasa reveals how precarious life has become in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This city of ugly half-finished buildings radiates both the optimism and the paranoia of a gold-rush town. ...READ»

China's New Oil Supplier

When my plane smacks down in Equatorial Guinea -- where if the captain misses the runway, you could end up in Cameroon -- I become the first American journalist to visit this pint-sized republic (population: 550,000) in nearly three ...READ»

Mining Copper in Zambia

I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»

Best Cities for Innovation

Cities to watch, from Abu Dhabi to Orlando.READ»

• U.S. City of the Year: Chicago
• Global City of the Year: London Calling

Medical Leave

Your next heart surgery could well be in Bangkok -- but don't worry, it'll be "in network." How your health care is taking wing ...READ»

• The Most Innovative Ways to Nap

MEET: World Retail Congress

Barcelona is the place for executives to talk shop -- from green packaging to worldwide economic worries -- April 9-11. We asked five attendees to tell us what's on their agendas, besides tapas.READ»

• Now: April 2008
• Numerology: Tax Time
• Journal-ist: Freedom of Choice

Hotbed

A trip to the steaming, bubbling badlands of Iceland proves one thing: There is hope for hydrogen.READ»

A Laptop in Every Pot

Not even a seemingly noble cause can distract Intel from the developing-world marketing efforts we wrote about in "Intel's Amazon Ambitions" (February). After long dismissing the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child foundation to give ...READ»

• Feedback

Where Art Thou?

The four kinds of places that make up today's creative world.READ»

• In Praise of Spikes

In Praise of Spikes

In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.READ»

• Where Art Thou?

No Child Left Offline

The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.READ»

• Producing Green Homes
• Hitting the Wall at Work?

Making Friends, Creating Customers

Intel's World Ahead Program is an ambitious billion-dollar venture, but other tech and telecom companies are also building relationships in developing countries that promise to become the most massive of mass markets. Among ...READ»

Campaign for Collaboration

Campaign for Collaboration How do you reintroduce law and order to a society brutalized by war? A winner of our first-ever Fast 50 readers' challenge, Andrew Mackay ran a team that applied business principles to persuade different ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 15. Monumentalists Roisin Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng heneghan.peng Previous | Next The competition to build the Grand Museum of Egypt in Giza was the largest architectural contest in history, ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 22. Clean City Peter Head Arup Previous | Next What looks like a sketch for a sunny Florida retirement community is actually a very early prototype of a plan to turn Dongtan, China, into the ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 10. Travel Agents James Jianzhang Liang, Neil Nanpeng Shen, and Min Fan CTrip Previous | Next China is expected to spend an estimated $306.5 billion on travel and tourism by 2016. That's sweet ...READ»