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21 September 2009

Can social media help make microfinance sustainable?

Written by John Liebhardt · The Future of ICT for Development

Microfinance agencies provide loans to small businesspeople who often can’t meet the strict credit terms of large banks. Either these entrepreneurs don’t have the capital or the cash to back the loan. Or as the large banks argue, their credit needs are too small.

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21 April 2009

Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II

Written by Gilad Lotan · Breaking News, Human Rights

Yesterday was the national holocaust memorial day in Israel. Coincidentally, it was also the opening day of the highly contested UN Durban II conference on racism in Geneva. Gilad Lotan updates us with reactions from Israeli bloggers, who link both occasions.

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26 January 2008

Davos: peeking in and participating through videos

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Ideas, Breaking News

The World Economic Forum´s annual meeting of political and business leaders is taking place between January 23rd and January 27th in Davos, Switzerland. This year, common people can participate in this forum by giving their ideas to make the world a better place and posting it on the YouTube video sharing site.

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27 July 2007

Madagascar: Community, Identity and the Malagasy diaspora

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Migration & Immigration, Digital Activism

As it is sometimes the case for sub-Saharan African nations, the Malagasy diaspora carries a substantial weight of the cultural, political and virtual activities related to Madagascar. In the World...

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22 October 2006

The Week That Was in Bahrain

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Breaking News, Arts & Culture

It has been yet another busy week on the Bahraini blogsophere, with some bloggers rallying behind an anti-sectarianism campaign, Just Bahraini; others just back home from a long holiday; and...

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9 September 2006

Global Food Blog Report #31

Written by Melissa De León · Food, Citizen Media

#1: Crispy Waffle takes a culinary adventure! Check out her Travel: Tunisia post and you will get a very tasty review on all things edible during the trip. Tunisia, located...

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Updates about Switzerland

20 November 2008

English

Cairo's Scene & Heard celebrated entrepreneur and hotelier Sameh Sawiris's new project in Switzerland saying: “Now that we're branching out into Europe…do you think we stand a chance next to the already existing competition?!?”

• Marwa Rakha

18 June 2008

Updates

Desmond McGrath of A Fistful of Euros writes about football and politics: “Part of the fun of football is the way in which it overturns the international order of power politics.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

22 May 2008

English

Social Science in the Caucasus examines the Internet presence of Armenian and Georgian communities in Switzerland. The blog of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers says that examining the extent of activity in online communities is one way of tracking how organized migrant communities abroad are.

• Onnik Krikorian

21 December 2007

Updates

The Armenian Observer features a guest post by a Swiss ex-pat worker in Armenia who compares how elections are conducted in Europe with how they are conducted here in the South Caucasus.

• Onnik Krikorian

23 October 2007

Updates

A few more links on the Polish election: the beatroot explains Kaczynski's defeat; Dr. Sean's Diary sums up the results and notes a “a complete slaughter of minor parties“; Edward Lucas declares that the “era of the ‘terrible twins' is over”; Yascha Mounk's general summary at Harvard International Review; Europhobia cheers Poland, but boos Switzerland; Jonathan Newton writes about the election and Poland's EU business.

• Veronica Khokhlova

21 August 2007

Spanish

Carlos Gustavo Machicado of Guccio's [ES] comments on a recent speech by President Evo Morales, who stated his desire for Bolivia to follow the example set by Switzerland. Machiado writes, “The reactions have been favorable because it is good that we want to be like Switzerland, and not like Venezuela or Cuba.”

• Eduardo Avila

24 July 2007

Updates

Gillian writes about the decision by the Swiss government to remove all tarrifs on trade with Tanzania: “The Swiss government has removed all tariffs and quotas standing in the way of Tanzanian exports destined for Switzerland. The new regulations came into force in April 2007, and are expected to benefit a wide range of Tanzanian businesses trading in products such as flowers, cashew nuts and fish.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II

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This is not about Saudi Arabia becoming the role model for the Swiss, but rather about the Swiss claiming their...
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Jewish people lived happily enough in North Africa for a very long time when they were being persecuted in Europe....