Global Citizenshift 2.0

My carbon footprint is more than 200 times bigger than an average Ethiopian's, and more than 12 times bigger than an average Indian's, and twice as big as an average Brit's.

I agree with the comments of Brian Doe. A familiar appeal to a return to old models. As an appeal to more collaboration, I certainly support that.

Generate a voice of the oppressed through bones.

The resounding question became: why was this child left for dead in the street, as if she were roadkill?

The key message to emerge from the research: The "phenomenal, worldwide growth of mobile telephony" is presenting development organisations and other stakeholders with opportunities to leverage the most basic of mobile phones to improve the livelihoods of the world's economically poorest people.

We are showing this today at the assembly, thanks to Lian, to promote youth films and Mulgrave ZOOMfest, but it also a creative critique of the limitations and challenges of social social media for human communications, at least with youth. Love the simplicity. And creative use of technology.

If poverty was a social network it would be twice the size of Facebook.For the first time in history, 1 billion people visited Google in May. Impressive, until you put it up against hunger. There are 1 billion people who go to bed hungry… EVERY DAY. So if hunger was a website, it would have 30x more traffic than Google.  We are very self-congratulatory about our societal advances and technology marvels. But when put up against the world's largest challenges, our modern achievements look a little overblown.

free, online, proposals accepted until Oct 15, 2011

Famine is the real obscenity.