The G4 Draft is finishing the second round of feedback with lots of input from all areas. You can continue to submit feedback through November 12th. There were a total of 650 submissions of feedback on the G4 Exposure Draft during the second PCP. “We have received a record amount of feedback on the Exposure Draft,” says Nelmara Arbex,…
Category: Responsibility
Corporate Volunteers using Professional Skills
”It’s a win-win-win situation,” says Claire Johnson, a PhD student at the University of Adelaide who is researching corporate volunteering. She believes companies are turning away from sponsorship in favour of corporate volunteering. ”I think people can be cynical about sponsorship. The idea that the company can give money to a group and get advertising…
Video games to spread awareness on deadly diseases
According to Calcutta News.Net, the ‘5th International Conference on Entertainment Education (EE5)’ heard that video games and personalized advice through phone calls and messages are some of the unique measures proposed to spread awareness on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. The four-day conference aimed to create a fusion of education and entertainment to highlight life-threatening diseases and social…
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
A straight forward view of analyzing data and making your findings visual. They didn’t mention the part about choosing only the statistics which support your position. Or the section on how to make the data look better or worse. Perhaps it would be a good idea for folks to stop doing that. Visualize This: The…
Five Technology Titans Support Education
Melissa Jun Rowley describes how five industry giants are supporting education around the world. To make digital more accessible, and to enable people to stay competitive in the global economy, a number of tech and media companies are working to level the online playing field all around the world. Here are five of them. 1….
Is it time to end the E-commerce sales tax subsidy?
• Maureen Hayden is the Indiana State Reporter for CNHI. Contact her at Maureen.Hayden@indianamediagroup.com. Normal, Ill. — Dick Smith thrives on competition. At 69, he braved the heat and sandstorms of the Sahara desert this summer to compete against rivals half his age on ABC’s adventure reality show “Expedition Impossible.” Smith was edged out before…