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Topic: U.S. Agency for International Development

  

Networks in the Developing World

Lane Smith coordinates the USAID's Leland Initiative, an effort to extend full Internet connectivity to more than 20 African countries in order to promote sustainable development. Rahul Tongia is a research engineer of engineering ...READ»

Hope Diamonds

In Sierra Leone, a plan for fair-trade gems.READ»

Social Capitalists: Profiles

Path (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) Founded: 1977 Seattle, Washington Christopher J. Elias, President www.path.org Entrepreneurship: A Innovation: A+ Social Impact: A+ Aspiration: A- Sustainability: A- ...READ»

Digging Out

The idea of putting people to work was largely neglected after the invasion of Iraq. Now, as debate mounts over troop withdrawals, one strategy might help fill the void.READ»

No Place Like Home

Two New York architects are using design to address pressing social challenges -- for the homeless, for war refugees, even for public-school kids. Here's their blueprint.READ»

China in Africa

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»

What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»