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Dedicated to improving peace in the world by promoting projects that the organization endorses. They also have a Global Peace Ranking Index each year that tells you how peaceful each country is. This site has some great resources for using social media deeper purposes.

Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs who passed away in October was hailed as a successful technology entrepreneur, having built up one of the most recognized consumer electronics companies globally and creating some of the most coveted devices around the world. ZDNet Asia spoke to industry insiders on noteworthy traits to apply when it comes to running your company, based on lessons gleaned from the tech veteran.

It has been 10 years since the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by United Nations member states with the aim of eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics and developing a global partnership for development by 2015. At the same time, the world has experienced the maturation of the information web, and more recently, the meteoric rise of the social web.

A panel of musicians, marketing executives and media professionals joined the UN Foundation's Executive Director of Global Partnerships Elizabeth Gore to explore how musicians and other celebrities can use social media to drive support for social issues.

Crowd Accelerated Innovation. Think about how mobile affects this concept.

"With mobile banking systems on the rise, health experts are hoping to capitalize on the budding technology to make health services more accessible as well. The mobile finance systems allow subscribers to store and transfer money as credits on their phones, and withdraw cash from local vendors when needed. The tools have appealed to many people who previously had no banking mechanism."