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Friedbeef's Tech —
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Today is Blog Action Day. More than 8,000 blogs around the world have banded together to talk about one cause:
Poverty.
Consider this.
One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes
Every year nearly 11 million children living in poverty die before their fifth birthday
800 million people go to bed hungry every night
There are over 100 million street children worldwide ...
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty
Core77 —
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Today is Blog Action Day 2008 where the conversation online will be about poverty. To mark this day at Core77, here is a selection of posts from our blogs and article archives that look at the issues from design's point of view.
Articles
May 2008: Project H Design (Anti)Manifesto: A Call To Action For Humanitarian (Product) Design, By Emily Pilloton
April 2008: Design for the Next Billion Customers, by Niti Bhan and Dave Tait
February 2008: ...
Blog Action Day
JoshSpear.com —
You might see quite a few of your favorite blogs playing this video today. That’s because today is Blog Action Day. Thousands of bloggers are taking time out to focus on the issue of poverty and what the online community is saying about it. We’ve taken our own spin on some creative activist products and issues over the years:
TOMS Shoes, Kiva.org, A Mighty Heart, World Food Programme, Project 7, Apollo Activism, T. Magic
Feel free to provide your own relevant links in the comments section.
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