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Richard Allaway

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Box - 3 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 04 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 04 Jan 09
     
    BBC News embarks on a unique project telling the story of international trade by tracking a shipping container around the world for a year.
Richard Allaway

YouTube - Financial transactions and mobile technology in emerging eco - 0 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 25 Feb 09
     
    M-PESA is a new Safaricom service enabling money transfer using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone.
Kathleen Noreisch

Words of warning: 2,500 languages under threat worldwide | world news | The Guardian - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...endangered-languages-unesco

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 20 Feb 09
     
    Yesterday, at its headquarters in Paris, Unesco unveiled its first comprehensive and online database of the world's endangered tongues. According to its team of specialists, there are around 2,500 languages at risk, including more than 500 considered "critically endangered" and 199 which have fewer than 10 native speakers.
Rob Micallef

Technology Review: Videos - 1 views

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  • Rob Micallef on 16 Feb 09
     
    India is the fastest-growing mobile communications market in the world. The rural poor are rapidly adopting phones, so the technology could become a platform for providing banking services. Sanjay Swamy, CEO of the mobile-payment platform mChek, talks about the potential.
Ann Smith

YouTube - Our Shrinking World 1946 Vintage Transportation Youth Education Film - 4 views

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shared by Ann Smith on 27 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ann Smith on 27 Feb 10
     
    A great youth education film from 1949 demonstrating how the world is shrinking through transportation and communication developments
Kathleen Noreisch

Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies | World news | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-language-extinct-speaker-dies

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  • Kathleen Noreisch on 04 Feb 10
     
    Death of Boa Sr, last person fluent in the Bo language of the Andaman Islands, breaks link with 65,000-year-old culture.
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