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CARRI Research is an organization is to understand what resilience is and how to get there, based on research evidence. As one resource for this effort, CARRI has commissioned a number of summaries of existing knowledge about resilience, arising from a number of different research traditions. This report is

one in a series of such summaries, which will be integrated with new resilience explorations in

several CARRI partner cities and with further discussions with the research…

Ushahidi is a program that links the world together through the power of technology down to the newest smart phone. It is great because any one can use it and add information to the system and it is an almost instant thing were your information is published on a global scale. Now people from around the world can know whats going on other then right in front of them. It also helps to bring awarness and how the world is being affected by different things. The most important thing is its…

"European competition authorities fined the British financial firm ICAP about 14.9 million euros, or $17 million, on Wednesday, saying the firm had breached antitrust laws by facilitating attempts by several banks to rig a benchmark interest rate."

This affects the average everyday person because now you can see the banking industry can no longer be trusted. They cut shady back room deals with their friends but over charge people for just making a credit card transaction or a transfer…

This week I became a member of the revolution of the way money is handled in the world. I made an online purchase for valentines day using the payment method of PayPal, a new and inventive way to purchase items cutting out the banks and credit card companies between the producer and the consumer. The thing I liked the most is the level of privacy when using it, it pops up in my bank statement as a PayPal purchase, therefore my bank doesn't know im spending my money on only the producer and…

Money and its exchange has changed over the years from gold and silver coins, to paper money, then plastic electronic credit cards and the process by which it changed hands has changed as well. After doing some research I see the future of money making a drastic change again. With the growing bureaucracy of credit card companies and banks I see companies like PayPal being the future. It cuts the middle man out, business no longer lose their profit for fees put on them from the banks and…

I 2020 I hope to be serving my country as a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps. I hope to have a large impact on the world by going forth on humanitarian missions that I get deployed on as well as disaster relief seeing that these are two primary missions of the Marine Corps. I will be able to help build countries and train their militaries and their infrastructures so that they can thrive and rise out of the economic and infrastructural situation that they are in.…

The Social Innovater that Im shadowing is Alex Hornstein, who develops innovative clean technologies that significantly increase global access to electricity and reduce carbon emissions. Hornstein and his partner Shawn Frayne recently built the solar pocket factory a machine that produces small solar panels that could provide power for100 million people worldwide. His latest project is the TinyPipes, building smart,web enabled solar panels that can be quickly deployed to form a solar…

I can directly relate to "Go where the action is", because in order to be successfu you cant sit around you have to be activly searching for social issues aroound the world. Once you find it you have to go to where the action is, the point of friction in order to make quick responsible decisions to benefit your cause. The best leaders lead from the greatest point of friction.