from the International Herald Tribune It's very rare that we see any stories from Finland. Doing some catch up from Thursday night, just for future searches sake. By Agnieszka Flak and Julie BretonHELSINKI: Aurelia no longer brings her four-year-old daughter with her to beg on the streets of Finland's capital Helsinki. The 35-year-old Roma is too scared the little girl will be taken from her and put in foster care.Finland is cracking down on Roma, or gypsies, who beg with their children, threatening to send mothers and children back to their country of origin or to take the children into foster care.The aim, authorities say, is to protect the children.But human rights groups say the move, introduced at the end of 2007, is one of Europe's toughest anti-Roma measures to date, and...
In a seminar I imparted in January — Fostering the Information Society for Development in the Web 2.0 framework: from push to pull strategies — the case of Spain — I suggested that the most developed countries had reached sort of a threshold of installed infrastructures. Of course, this threshold could be pushed up and more infrastructures (or better and cheaper ones) could be installed, but the development of the Information Society would barely rely on that.
According to the data available, I wondered whether the solution might be shifting from push to pull strategies, parallel to the shift that we’ve been living in the web landscape towards the so-called Web 2.0.
This is the chart I then presented:
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Now, with data from the World Bank we can draw another...
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from EarthtimesNew York - Finland is expected to reach the international target of spending 0.7 per cent of the country's gross national product on development in poor countries by 2015, and currently devotes 20 per cent of the increase in government spending every year to assist the poor, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Tuesday at a UN debate in New York. The 0.7 per cent target has been reached only by some Nordic and Scandinavian nations for overseas development assistance (ODA), as the aid is known.Vanhanen attended discussion on the goals at UN headquarters in New York attended by government envoys to review progress. While the main goal is to eradicated extreme hunger and poverty by 2015, other goals include halting the spread of HIV/AIDS, reducing maternal and infant mortality...