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On-the-Spot Volunteerism - Ben Rigby

2008-07-03T16:35:31Z

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Ben Rigby, founder of Mobile Voter, describes his "Grand Experiment" which allows users to practice "on-the-spot volunteerism" in ten or twenty minutes by connecting to organizations via their mobile phones.

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Open Innovation in Civil Society featuring panelists from Volunteer Now!, CorpWatch, Ask Your Lawmaker. This event was moderated by Trabian Shorters of the Knight Foundation.

This year's NetSquared Conference, a Mashup Challenge, brings together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe.

Ben Rigby graduated from Stanford University with Honors, Distinction, and Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to co-found Akimbo Design, a web design firm that created and managed the consumer web sites for The North Face, Beringer Vineyards, and California Pizza Kitchen and completed award-winning projects for Nokia, Sony Pictures, MGM, Calvin Klein, and Macromedia.
His company produced three Web design books, won dozens of awards, and had work featured in major media publications such as Newsweek, the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today.

In 2002, Ben took a position as CTO of DFILM, a youth entertainment company creating web and mobile applications. At DFILM, he managed the launch of a youth-focused communication platform in partnership with KPN, the largest wireless operator in the Netherlands. He also launched a viral application that is consistently used by 300,000 unique users per month and has been licensed by Yahoo!, Sam Adams, IBM, the Sierra Club, and Old Navy.

In 2004, Rigby founded and became co-executive director of Mobile Voter.

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Kurdish Islamic parties are growing in popularity - 9 Jun 08

2008-06-13T08:43:22Z

Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports that recently, Kurdish Islamic parties have broken with tradition by decentralising power and bringing in new senior members.

They are trying to modernize to attract voters. But the region has a history of secular politics that some analysts say Islamist politicians will find hard to break.

In stark contrast to much of Iraq, the country's Kurdish north is relatively peaceful.

For most of the past 10 years, two secular parties have shared power.

However, now Islamic groups are becoming more popular.

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US soldier unites ethnic groups in Afghanistan - 31May08

2008-06-18T03:33:35Z

Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports on how one US soldier is working to bridge the divide between different ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

The growing violence in Afghanistan highlights the need to strengthen and unite the country's security forces.

Its soldiers and police come from a range of different ethnic groups, divided by rivalries, politics and language.

Bo speaks to one US soldier whose language skills are helping bridge those divisions.

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Three Levels Of Al Qaida Groups

2008-06-15T21:31:25Z

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Suicide Help, We Care...

2008-06-10T15:32:08Z

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Margaret Cho -- These Christian Groups Have Lost Their Minds

2008-06-12T03:31:28Z

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Eats!

2008-06-09T09:33:06Z

What's on your plate, fries or seaweed?
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What's So Great About Online Social Networking?

2008-06-11T15:36:19Z

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Co-founders of social networking sites Jaiku, Twitter and Dopplr discuss the benefits of online social networks.

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"Up Close and Personal: Share Your Life," featuring Jyri Engestrom, Biz Stone, Raymond Spanjar, Felix Peterson, and Matt Biddulph, with moderator Linda Stone.

Where are you? What are you doing? Simple questions, simple answers, essential to our social existence. Twitter, Jaiku, Plazes, Dopplr and Hyves help us to share our lives with friends, family, anyone, anywhere. This session explores our existence and contact in an always-'on' world.- PICNIC

Jyri Engestrom is co-founder of jaiku.com, a mobile social software startup. He is also Founder and Vice-Chairman of Aula Network, a nonprofit to advance the vision of a creative society. Jyri incubated start-ups at Tera Group, a venture capital partnership, and co-founded ShiftControl, an online recruiting company based on friend-to-friend referrals. Prior to that he worked as a Concept Designer at Satama Interactive, where he co-led the design of Nokia.com. Jyri is working on a Ph.D on innovation at the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. He holds a Master's degree in sociology from the University of Helsinki. He maintains a weblog at zengestrom.com.

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz sometimes writes books about what people are doing on the Internet. Interested in what he is up to? Follow his Twitter trail at twitter.com/biz, or read his blog at www.bizstone.com.

Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. He is also the CTO of Dopplr, a social network for frequent travellers.

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Understanding U.S. Sanctions on Iran

2008-06-15T09:34:07Z

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Michael Jacobson, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department, discusses the current state of U.S. sanctions on Iran.

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Michael Jacobson discusses "Sanctioning Iran: A View from Washington."

Michael Jacobson is a senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence, and Policy. His areas of focus include sanctions and financial measures to combat national security threats, as well as other issues related to counterterrorism, national security law, and intelligence reform.

From September 2004 to June 2005, he worked as a Soref fellow at the Institute, authoring the monograph The West at War: U.S. and European Counterterrorism Efforts, Post-September 11. From June 2005 to March 2007 he served as a senior advisor in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). In that capacity, he fulfilled a wide range of responsibilities, including involvement in the office's strategic planning, priorities, and budget. He was also a liaison to TFI's congressional oversight committees, to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and to the National Counterterrorism Center.

Previously, he served as counsel on the 9-11 Commission, where he was assigned to two teams: one that focused on domestic intelligence policy issues, and another investigating the September 11 plot. In addition to his work with the commission, he served as counsel with the Congressional September 11 investigation, participating in the team that assessed the FBI's performance.

Mr. Jacobson also worked for the FBI for more than five years, first as an intelligence analyst, then as assistant general counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brandeis University, a master's degree in international relations from Tufts University, and a law degree from Boston College Law School.

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Somali opposition groups ally - 13 Sept 07

2008-06-16T21:31:00Z

Somali opposition leaders have formed a new political alliance, warning Ethiopian troops to "leave now or never" at the conclusion of a conference in Asmara.

The group has vowed to overthrow the current transitional government and has given Ethiopian troops in Somalia two weeks to leave the country.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports on the Somali fighters.

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Lance Armstrong - On Surviving Cancer

2008-06-16T21:31:09Z

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Champion American cyclist Lance Armstrong discusses his experiences as a survivor of testicular cancer, and explains the origins of the ubiquitous yellow "Livestrong" bracelet.

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Bob Schieffer interviews Lance Armstrong at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place - to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout the week, they all interacted with an audience of thoughtful people who stepped back from their day-to-day routines to delve deeply into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.

Lance Armstrong is a retired American professional road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France - cycling's most prestigious race - seven consecutive times, from 1999 to 2005. In doing so, he beat the previous records of five wins by Miguel Indurain (consecutive) and Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. Previous to this achievement he also survived testicular cancer, a germ cell tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs in 1996. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery, and extensive chemotherapy.

Armstrong's athletic success and dramatic recovery from cancer inspired him to commemorate his accomplishments, with Nike, through the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a charity founded in 1997. The foundation's yellow rubber "Livestrong" wristbands, first launched in 2004, have been a major success, netting the foundation more than $60 million dollars in the fight against cancer, while helping Armstrong become a major player in the nonprofit sector.

These achievements have at times been clouded by allegations that Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs to achieve some of his wins. However, no conclusive evidence has been presented to verify these allegations, which he vigorously denies, and Armstrong has never failed a doping test.

Bob Lloyd Schieffer is an American journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973-1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since 1991, and, between March of 2005 and August 31, 2006, interim weekday anchor of the CBS Evening News. Katie Couric, formerly of NBC's The Today Show, succeeded Schieffer as anchor on September 5, 2006.

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Amb. Mark Dybul - AIDS, Abstinence and Faith-Based NGOs

2008-06-07T09:36:24Z

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Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, defends the Bush Administration's reliance on abstinence education and assistance from faith-based organizations in waging the fight against global AIDS.

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"Global HIV/AIDS and the U.S. Government's Response: The Power of Partnerships" with Ambassador Mark Dybul.

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment ever by a single nation to an international health initiative; by 2008, the program will have spent $18.3 billion on anti-retroviral treatment in 15 focus nations.

Ambassador Dybul discusses the role of anti-retroviral drugs in the fight against the raging global epidemic and the partnerships that have helped almost 1 million people get treatment. -- Commonwealth Club of California

Ambassador Mark R. Dybul serves as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. From March to August 2006, he served as Acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and prior to that he held the positions of Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Assistant U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

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NYPD

2008-06-08T09:34:22Z

The Young Turks: Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz. NYPD spying on Liberal Groups. Watch live from 6-9AM ET on www.theyoungturks.com. Listen from 6-9AM ET on Air America Radio.

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