Windows doesn't dance. Bill Gates is Afriad of Brazil. A Government Minister who is "proud to be a hacker". So went this morning's packed
It’s not easy finding oneself or one’s cause here in Porto Alegre. Today and yesterday I spent the days bustling between other forum participants from tent to tent.
I’m leaving tomorrow. So, before team OD repairs again to watch the sunset from yellow boat on the river, its time for reflections. Or, perhaps, confessions. If you are
Finally I get to go to one of the Big Sessions, a massive plenary including Lulu, freshly arrived from Porte Allegre’s mixed reception (see WSF Blog), Gordon Brown, arriving
People giving money is great, but it is amazing how confused conversations become, one minute talking about financing mechanisms, then talking about the transnational control of its use, and then
The massive Congress Hall is full, people attentive, engaged and definitely enthusiastic, there is belief in the air…interesting argument really, a brilliant approach designed by Brown, but Mkapa’s
Brown…this is just a temporary funding mechanism…we are committed to the 0.7 target…but the timescale to get there is too great…the IFF gets around this,
“So lets count the numbers of bed nets that Davos generated this year…we have one million dollars collected…how many can that buy…how wonderful”
Someone stands up and offers $10,000 to Mkapa to buy nets…then she calls for other people to give money…someone shouts out $50,000…then others are standing
Motherhood and apple pie, how could you be against them, they create more with less, the quintessential social alchemy of the era…hardly a sentence goes by at Davos without
‘The human rights abuses in Congo have been aided and abetted by the business community, those companies in pursuit of natural resources…but if ‘we’ go, who delivers services, provides
I never did meet John Vidal for a beer. He may be the only journalist from a mainstream British newspaper in Porto Alegre for the WSF, and is busy as
