As proposals for the U.S. FY2013 budget roll in, the
question of what will happen with foreign assistance is on the minds of many.
One.org has launched a campaign to Protect
Funding That Saves Lives and has created an interactive
application where US taxpayers can calculate how much of their taxes went
to foreign assistance based on annual income, and what that amount can do in
terms of providing HIV treatment, vaccines, and bed nets. Rajiv Shah,
administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, testified
concerning the budget and the need for development funding, while
Interaction (among others) worries
that cuts will be deep.
Not surprisingly, everyone was talking about water on World
Water Day. This
article takes a look at the WHO/UNICEF data and asks whether the goal for
safe drinking water, which they recently announced has been met far ahead of
time, is fair. Participate by calculating your water footprint at Waterfootprint.org.
Climate change is affecting access and quality of water; read how ICT4Ds have the potential to alleviate
the stress.
After World Water Day, it’s time to look to World
Tuberculosis Day, which takes place this Saturday, March 24. The World
Health Organization released a report which states childhood tuberculosis
has been a “hidden pandemic.” USAID
hopes to fight TB with mobile phone technology, and the Sentinel
Project tells moving stories of children with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Get involved by
making your own poster or video.
On the subject of geocoding conflict data,
Foreign Policy shares a powerful
visualization of the US bombing of Cambodia.
Finally, with the release of the Hunger Games movie tonight
at midnight, based on the young adult novel by Suzanne Collins, one
organization is taking advantage of the hype to spark social change. Hunger is
Not a Game is a new focus for The Harry Potter Alliance’s Imagine Better
organization. You can read more about this movement and how it first got
started with the release of Harry Potter on the New
York Times Opinionator.
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