Tag: business
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McDonalds, as with most large multinational enterprises, pursues a strategy of being ‘environmentally friendly’ in order for consumers to view the organisation in a positive social context. In essence, being an environmentally friendly organisation can range from having a concern over the state of natural resources to being concerned over the way in which the…
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A few years back, before all this internet/smartphone/ubiquitous stuff, I worked for a media development NGO, helping to strengthen public-interest media in the developing world. One of the ways we used to articulate why it was important to support these independent, public and community media was “imagine a world without media”… Unthinkable. Now, with the…
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The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have…
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When there are five or six conferences held in closed locations every year, where telecommunications companies, surveillance companies and government ministers meet in secret to cut deals, buy equipment, and discuss the latest methods to intercept their citizens’ communications – that I think meets the level of concern. They say that they are doing it…
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http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf Video streaming by Ustream Ethics in Business panel at the Carnegie Council in NYC, featuring Yahoo!’s Ebele Okobi-Harris and YouTube’s Abbi Tatton on the new challenges of global information-sharing as they run into human rights concerns. (via the WITNESS blog.) (Source: http://www.ustream.tv/)
Sameer Padania 