There have been some questions about who the World Bank is, and what their motives are behind UrgentEvoke. I haven't paid it much attention, as I believe that there is a lot of good coming out of the project regardless as to what THEY get out of it. For instance, I've become extremely active in learning and teaching about the things brought up by the game. On top of that, I can see that at least a few of my friends have become interested and are also spreading the word. With all that said, I was a little disturbed by what I heard about them in this video. It's a little hard to understand, but if you make it through the first half, you'll hear a little bit about what this speaker had to go through in speaking up against the World Bank and how he suggests we can all overcome such obstacles.
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Additional References about World Bank
Strategy for Anti-Corruption - Paints a different picture of the World Bank, BUT this comes from the World Bank's website so I'm taking it with a grain of salt.
Article about World Bank being accused of corruption in 2004. This seems to be a relatively independent source. Here is the intro describing who they are.
Blog with a list of accusations and responses. Seems quite unofficial, but a good way to do more investigative follow-up to find out if there is anything behind these accusations.
Development Marketplace - A website run by the World Bank Institute (WBI), described as a platform for debate and knowledge sharing on early stage development, innovation and social entrepreneurship.
chelsea is known for leaving comments to which she then doesnt bother to reply to in case they are replied to and thats it so i dont think youll get the pleasure sarah
what she is trying toexplain is evoke tied up only with wbi and not wb and that too only becasue this part of the puzzle doesnt engage in loans that ensure nation's becoming their tribuataries, sarah
it's a case of if the right hand doesnt know what the left is doing it's ok to shake hands with it
this brings in another question though copyright,copy left, intellectual property, knowledge banks, patents, free source, open source,freeware, shareware ..... very interesting puzzle indeed
Thanks for all the links everyone, I'm reading up still.
Sarah, I found almost the wh*** 1st page of google taken up by content from the World Bank website, which I found a bit misleading. I'd prefer to find other sites that can verify all the "good" things their site says. What I found odd is that rather than linking to some of their projects, they put out these publications in PDF form....
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The exchange works directly for state and public workers and servants. It gives them credit in exchange for the amount of public work they contribute to the community. The more constructive they are based off a base rate the more credit they recieve.
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