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Is Offshoring Good? [Full-text]

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:02 AM

The head of an Indian consulting firm and a high-tech-union president face off on the effects of offshoring and globalization.READ»

ELECTIONS | 2 comments

The Site With 8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon May 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM

The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per ...READ»

$10 NOTEBOOK | 8 comments

India's $10 Laptop

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM

On February 3, the Indian government will unveil a $10 educational laptop intended to bring computing to the masses, reports the Times of India. By comparison, a computer-shaped cake pan is $20 plus shipping in the U.S. Will the $10 ...READ»

FC CALENDAR | Comment

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

BY Fast Company Calendar
Relevancy Score: 97
Sat Nov 7, 2009 at 4:51 PM

The APHA's choice of water as its theme this year -- the "21st-century challenge," the group says -- may make you think of drought in India or desertification in Africa. But it wants you to think about you: A clean water supply is ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Barefoot Is Better

BY Jennifer Vilaga
Relevancy Score: 94
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:09 AM

Bunker Roy says entrepreneurship, not massive aid programs, will solve mass poverty.READ»

GLOBALIZATION | Comment

Fast Talk: Hail, global citizens!

BY Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. Given that, we wonder: What are its responsibilities to the rest of the world? And how do companies act on those responsibilities?READ»

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Speedometer: Special Global Economy Edition

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 80
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:39 AM

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | 8 comments

Class of '07: The The Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award Winners

BY Tonya Garcia, Polya Lesova, Josie Swindler, and Kathryn Tuggle
Relevancy Score: 75
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:15 AM

Organization What It Does Results Grade ACCION International CEO: María Otero www.accion.org Winner's Statement Trains banks around the world to be microfinance partners, making small loans ...READ»

FINANCE + INVESTING | Comment

You Down with GDP? II

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 40
Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 3:33 PM

In response to an entry earlier this week, FC Now reader Jivha indicates that Indian finance minister Jaswant Singh employs the metric Gross National Contentment. Jivha expands on the two concepts in a blog entitled The Tongue.READ»

GLACIERS | Comment

Cheap, Artificial Glaciers Could Help Save Disappearing Ice Sheets

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 37
Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 5:55 AM

Geoengineering is a controversial topic, and for good reason. It's risky to toy with our planet when so much damage has already been done, but that hasn't stopped researchers from investigating everything from forests of synthetic ...READ»

AWBI | Comment

HABITAT ENERGY PARKS- HOW TO EVOLVE LOCAL LEADERSHIP IN INDIA!

BY Jag Rawat
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Oct 8, 2008 at 2:13 AM

LOCAL POWER SOLUTIONS BY NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS! HABITAT ENERGY PARKS- HOW TO EVOLVE LOCAL LEADERSHIP IN INDIA! Could we imagine that sons and sons of Chief Ministers would be logical choice of leadership for us Indians? ...READ»

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