CIAO DATE: 04/03

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

March/April 2003

Expert Sitings
Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi*

 

www.oneworld.net OneWorld is a global network of over 1,000 organizations working in human rights and sustainable development. Its Web site compiles reports from these organizations as well as the latest news on world affairs, reported from the bottomup.

www.charityfocus.org CharityFocus publicizes and assists the work of nonprofits by using its Web site as a community bulletin board and offering technical assistance and advice on Web services.

www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro Based at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site is one of the best sources of information on economic issues in developing countries.

www.shirky.com Shirky is a great site that features essays and other writings about the Internet, with a focus on the intersections between economics and culture, community and media, and open-source issues.

www.ashoka.org A global nonprofit founded in 1980, Ashoka pioneered the “social venture capital” approach to international development. Its Web site is an information clearinghouse on social change and innovation in the developing world.

 


Endnotes

Note *: Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi are cofounders of DevelopmentSpace. An “e-Bay for international aid,” DevelopmentSpace is a Web-based service that facilitates social and economic investment in developing nations.  Back