2005 10
A Global Strategy for Fighting Terrorism
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Here is the link to A Global Strategy for Fighting Terrorism, the fantastic speech given today by Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations.
2005 9
Terrorism on the Internet
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Continuing with my desire to open up this conference to the press and the public here´s a transcript of everything that was said this morning at the Terrorism in the Internet session.
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2005 9
The Press has been Left Out!
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The summit is going great for everyone but the press. The press has been left out! I am very, very concerned about this. How can we claim that the best answer to terrorism is effective democracy and not practice it here?I am sorry, friends of Club de Madrid, we must change this policy. Paradoxically some of the best bloggers of the world are here and are free to blog this event. Why can´t the press tell the story of what´s happening inside here? We have nothing to hide!
2005 4
What is Terrorism? An interview
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What are, in your opinion, the leading causes of international Islamic terrorism?
Terrorists are power entrepreneurs who believe in using violence to achieve political objectives. This is true of all terrorists.
In general terrorism is defeated by providing an alternative way for thse power entrepreneurs to join the political scene. In Latin America many former terrorists or terrorist sympathizers of the 70s and 80s have become elected officials in the 90s as dictatorships gave way to democracy. I believe that the same will be true of the Islamic World. Once the Islamic world becomes democratic and terrorist leaders are offered less costly ways to gain power they will choose them and the problem will die out.
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2005 3
Martin Varsavsky: Misfit to Millionaire
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Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
by Julie Jette (Monday April 30th, 2001)
It was the roaring 1980s, and Martin Varsavsky was about to receive his MBA from Columbia University—and he still couldn’t get a job. His fruitless job search was probably the best thing that ever happened to him.
2005 2
The Varsavsky Foundation: Recent Contributions
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Recent contributions include donations to the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, the Agencia de Educacion y Formacion Virtual, the Peaceworks Network and Greenpeace Argentina.
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2005 2
The Varsavsky Foundation
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The Varsavsky Foundation was established by Martin Varsavsky in May 2000. It is a private, independent grantmaking organization dedicated to broadening access to, and improving the quality of, education world-wide.
Through its grantmaking activities, the Foundation seeks to ensure that the fundamental tools of learning, from basic bricks & mortar classrooms to on-line cyber-libraries, are available to children of all ages and in all parts of the world. The Foundation further aims to foster the realization of the full pedagogical potential of technology and the internet.
- To go to the foundation’s site, click on the link: https://english.varsavskyfoundation.org/
2005 2
Entrepreneurs I admire
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George Soros, Amancio Ortega, Stephan Schmidheiny…
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2005 2
Ideas for new businesses
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Ideas I’m currently working on.
It’s just one idea. There is no way to fly to Baqueira. I think Baqueira attracts a sufficient number tourists to transform the current aerodrome of Benabarre into a regional airport. A mini airline could be created to fly from there to Madrid and to Lisbon.
Another idea that I’m reconsidering is the idea to mix the format of MTV with the one of QVC and to see what happens. The problem is that this would mean I would have to be in the US or travel there often, which I can’t do right now.
2005 2
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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A Proposal for a New “Moveable” Language
This morning I googled the phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Not surprisingly, I got thousands of results. Quotes from teachers, photographers, illustrators, and people of all kinds making the point that a picture saves you time. However, as I went through the listings one thing caught my eye. None of them referred to the fact that in digital terms, a picture IS worth a thousand words! Or to put it another way, whoever coined the cliché was probably unaware that decades later it would be discovered that a digital picture and an e-mail of 1000 words, may very well have the same amount of digital content.
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