World Bank and Google
January 17th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
On January 16th, the World Bank and Google announced an agreement aimed at improving the ability of developing countries to access a web-based community mapping tool and data to help better monitor public services, and improve disaster and humanitarian response efforts.
The World Bank suggests that most developing coun...
Tags: Google, Humanitarian, map, World Bank
May 16th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
On June 4th and 5th, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA, HP and the World Bank, through their initiative Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), will bring together th...
April 11th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
As part of their effort to address conservation threats to habitats in Asia and stop the illegal wildlife trade of species such as tiger, snow leopard, rh...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, forests, tigers, World Bank
November 22nd, 2010 by Susie Hill in Humanitarian
The World Bank Group, along with various UN organizations, is attempting to make substantial progress toward gender equality, according to a recent st...
Tags: equality, gender, poverty, UN, World Bank
June 3rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Humanitarian
Weather and humanitarian efforts are becoming more and more linked. The UN and its aid partners have appealed for $1.9 billion for this year for Sudan...
Tags: 10 Reasons for Hope, Agatha, Canadian Forestry Agreement, Canadian Memorial Church, Climate Change, crop failures, Dzud, Greenpeace, Guatemala, Humanitarian, Mongolia, Nestle, palm oil, San Diego Zoo, Sudan, telecommuting, UN, wild weather, World Bank
