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Vote Up 4  Vote Down	Give Your Vote to Third World  Jim Cashel  A new website called Give Your Vote allows British citizens to seek input for their votes on issues which impact developing countries. http://bit.ly/b5LnW0 Comments (0)Government, vote, development
Vote Up 4  Vote Down	Produce Educational Games for Very Cheap Platforms  Jim Cashel  Playpower produces educational games to be used on a $12 TV-computer (TVC) platform used in developing countries. A MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning winner 2009. http://bit.ly/7XVG7s Comments (0)Education, development, computer, dvc, technology, onlinelearning
Vote Up 3  Vote Down	Companies Should Devote Some of R&D Budgets to Assist Poorest  Jim Cashel  Bill Gates describes why it is in both a company's and society's best interest that corporate R&D budgets be in part targeted to the poorest. http://bit.ly/6NFyI8 Comments (0)Management, poor, research, development
Vote Up 1  Vote Down	Airborne Wind Turbines  Jim Cashel  It is always windy 1000 feet up. A blimp / wind turbine can be deployed anywhere. NYTimes "best idea 2007" winner. http://bit.ly/7OplX3 Comments (2)Environment, energy, wind, development
Vote Up 1  Vote Down	Create "Learning Circles" For Displaced Children  Jim Cashel  Displaced children are frequently excluded from formal schooling. This program in Colombia provides learning opportunities for the population of over one million displaced children. A Changemakers.com winning idea 2007. http://bit.ly/5DxXgk Comments (0)Education, development, colombia
Vote Up 4  Vote Down	Sell to the "Base of the Pyramid"  Jim Cashel  Four billion people live in poverty - yet represent an enormous, untapped market. First step: create a market. WSJ: http://ow.ly/wYyQ Comments (0)Management, global development, development, marketing
Vote Up 2  Vote Down	Ban Cul-de-Sacs  Jim Cashel  Cul-de-sacs limit neighborhood connectivity, inhibit emergency vehicles, and drive too much foot and car traffic onto major arteries. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/#c Comments (0)Environment, development, neighborhood, transportation, cul-de-sac
Vote Up 2  Vote Down	New Technology Solar Power for Villages  Jim Cashel  New technologies allow water pumps, night lighting, and even new sources of revenues for entrepreneurs. http://www.selco-india.com Comments (0)Global Development, environment, solar, development
Vote Up 3  Vote Down	High-tech Outhouses  Jim Cashel  The Enviro Loo uses heat and air instead of water or chemicals to treat waste, and so does not threaten drinking water nor use electricity. http://www.eloo.co.za . Comments (0)Global Development, environment, toilet, outhouse, development, water, sanitation
Vote Up 2  Vote Down	Turn Extra Produce into Storable Form  Jim Cashel  Canadian non-profit sells bicycle-powered food processor to villages to process and store extra produce, creating jobs and better nutrition. http://www.malnutrition.org/vg_intro.htm Comments (0)Global Development, food, processor, development, nutrition, malnutrition
Vote Up 9  Vote Down	Solar-powered WiFi  Jim Cashel  The non-profit Green Wi-Fi brings solar-powered wifi base stations to poor communities to allow cheap and reliable local networking. http://www.green-wifi.org . Comments (0)Global Development, development, solar, wifi, internet
Vote Up 8  Vote Down	African Good Governance Prize  Jim Cashel  The Mo Ibrahim Foundation will offer a $5m prize to African heads of state who do most to alleviate poverty and leave office peacefully. http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en Comments (1)Global Development, africa, development, governance, dictators
Vote Up 4  Vote Down	Two-stroke Engine Retrofits  Jim Cashel  Retrofit kit turns polluting two-stroke engines (used in most of the developing world) into cleaner burning engines. $250. http://www.envirofit.org . Comments (0)Environment, environment, engine, development, pollution
Vote Up 5  Vote Down	Ranking Global Problems  The Copenhagen Consensus conducts periodic projects to rank importance of global problems. http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/ Comments (0)Global Development, copenhagenconsensus, development, foreignassistance
Vote Up 4  Vote Down	Empathy with the Global Poor  Individuals in rich countries will never truly empathize with the global poor without travel opportunities to see their circumstances firsthand. As described at http://www.aidsmatters.org/archives/104-Empathy-with-the-Poor.html Comments (2)Global Development, development, poverty, foreignaid, foreignassistance
Vote Up 5  Vote Down	LED Lighting for Rural Villages  Rural villages in India and elsewhere are benefiting from LED solar power lighting, with 50 times the useful light of an incandescent bulb. See Lighting Africa http://www.lightingafrica.org. Comments (1)Global Development, development, poverty, light, led, solar