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Why Buy When You Can DIY? This Startup Lets You Do Both | Wired Design | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...kollabora

shared by Mr. Mohan on 21 May 13 - No Cached
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      Mr. Mohan on 21 May 13
       
      why are people going to choose your site/company?
  • big challenge will be differentiating Kollabora from other big sites with engaged communities.
  • aesthetics and design
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  • Curation is also very important
  • moving away from tech and becoming more emotional.
  • human element of curation
  • combining content, commerce and community
Mr. Mohan

The Cost of Saving Lives in Bangladesh - Ben W. Heineman Jr. - The Atlantic - 13 views

www.theatlantic.com/...275749

shared by Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13 - No Cached
  • if real reform is to occur on the ground, hard, complex questions must be asked and answered
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      Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13
       
      what are these questions in your mind?
  • consumers across the globe looking for cheap prices
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      Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13
       
      what is OUR responsibility?
  • global garment retailers who want the incur the lowest cost--and offer the lowest price--to compete in developed markets but who do not want to be complicit in publicized worker tragedies in developing markets
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  • $38 dollars per month
  • whether Bangladesh has the means to enforce such laws
  • International Labor Organization
  • Inadequate government is a huge obstacle to change
  • only about one percent of Bangladesh garment factories have good standards.
  • garment factory owners are willing to allow workers to organize in unions or associations in order to have a voice in health and safety conditions
  • "who pays" and "who is accountable"
  • Approximately 60 percent of the clothing made there goes to United States or the European Union
  • there are several problems
  • standards may depend on local law
  • buyers may simply cut off the suppliers rather than helping them improve their practices
  • global buyers simply leave the country when they conclude that conditions are so bad
  • question then becomes whether international buyers are willing to go beyond imposition of standards and supplier cut offs and to pay, in some form, for the undetermined costs
  • actually implementing major substantive change
  • significant challenge in a weak state like Bangladesh.
  • Can a robust consumer movement arise among those shopping for discount clothing in response to the Bangladesh building collapse?
  • What are the standards? What is the cost? Who is accountable?
  • drawn an analogy between the collapse of the Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh Capital of Dhaka and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York which claimed 146 lives
  • Rana Plaza catastrophe represents a more complicated set of fractured global relationships, responsibilities and financial capabilities.
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Iraq Holding First Election since U.S. Troop Withdrawal | United States Institute of Peace - 5 views

www.usip.org/...t-election-us-troop-withdrawal

shared by Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • s itself a triumph of sorts
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      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Why is this a triumph and is this a sign of hope?
  • The process does, however, face some challenges.
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Be alert for the challenges
  • three provinces forming the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) hold their elections separately.
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Why are the Kurdish regions different?
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  • Kirkuk
  • parties representing the ethnic and religious diversity of the province have not been able to agree to hold elections
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      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      Is this a positive/negative?
  • Baghdad decided to postpone elections in the Sunni-majority western provinces, Anbar and Nineveh, for security reasons
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 23 Apr 13
       
      What do the two areas not holding elections have in common?
  • harbinger
  • In terms of a national identity, it might imply that certain provinces are less important than others
  • Given the toxic political environment, the rivalries and electoral history in Iraq, the integrity of elections will come into question by some.
  • Political and other differences are normal, but it is important that they are dealt with peacefully through a process of dialogue and problem-solving
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