TweetDeck CEO on how the new "ChromeDeck" works
A new version of TweetDeck, the computer application that helps bring order to the cacophony of the Twittersphere and other social-media networks, will allow users to send and monitor updates within the Google Chrome web browser.
Believing Cassandra author Alan AtKisson on building a sustainable planet
The world will continue to careen toward a collision course with the laws of nature for as long as the key problem of runaway growth is left unchecked, writes author Alan AtKisson in his book "Believing Cassandra: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World".
Singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya teaches Dhaka slum children
LONDON (AlertNet) - After a false start studying economics at university, Bangladeshi singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya turned her focus to music and mastering the songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, was the firs
VIDEO: Have stabilisation efforts reduced space for humanitarian action?
Aid workers need to develop a better understanding of stabilisation efforts in war-affected countries to avoid undermining humanitarian responses, argue Samir Elhawary and Sarah Collinson, researchers at the Overseas Development Institute.
VIDEO: Conflict and development expert Jonathan Goodhand on "winning hearts and minds" debate
People living in conflict zones are not simply won over by being given aid, they are won over by improved security and having better access to justice, says Jonathan Goodhand, reader in conflict and development studies at the University of London.
INTERVIEW: UN refugee chief calls for new deal on burden sharing for refugees
Rich countries should share the global refugee burden more fairly with developing countries and cooperate to set up an enlarged EU-wide resettlement programme, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres says.
VLOG: Jason Gonzales tests the water at the MDG Summit
Jason Gonzales, founder and president of Aquavida, a global clean water provider, spoke to AlertNet about the importance of clean water and sanitation in achieving the eight United Nations millenium development goals.
VLOG: Olav Kjorven mulls the Millennium Development Goals Summit
Olav Kjorven, director of policy development for the United Nations Development Programme, spoke to AlertNet in the U.N. Secretariat Building after a media briefing on energy poverty data.
VLOG: Using mobile networks to manage humanitarian disasters
Adele Waugaman works for the United Nations Foundation. She spoke with AlertNet about using technology to create networks and connect people during humanitarian crises at the U.N.
VLOG: African entrepreneurs establish health aid fund
Gift From Africa, a new fund launched to tackle HIV/AIDS, Malaria, tuberculosis, should help make progress toward achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, collaborators say.