{"id":72,"date":"2005-09-16T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-09-21T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T16:12:45","slug":"clinton-global-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Global Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/clintonglobalinitiative.org\">Clinton Global Initiative<\/a>.  It was this year in January, at Davos, that President Clinton announced that he liked Davos, so much so that he was going to start his own.  Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum laughed nervously.  It took a lot of guts to announce the conference that was going to be the most important Davos competitor&#8230;at Davos.  But that\u00b4s Clinton. He saw a political void. He occupied it.  There\u00b4s already a novelty here that I like.  To attend this conference everyone has to write a pledge to help with money, effort or a combination in one of the four areas: fight against poverty, better governance, combat climate change, or conflict resolution.  As Dennis Ross said &#8220;the Clinton Global Initiative is geared to problem solving&#8221;.  Solving may be too ambitious,  but alleviation is certainly achievable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=72\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am attending the Clinton Global Initiative. It was this year in January, at Davos, that President Clinton announced that he liked Davos, so much so that he was going to start his own. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum laughed nervously. It took a lot of guts to announce the conference that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[307,305,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}