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November 29, 2007

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Young Social Entrepreneurs' Forum at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Global Knowledge Partnership launched the Global Young Social Entrepreneurs' Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Global Competition will select 100 winners who will be sponsored to attend the upcoming Young Social Entrepreneurs Forum. The Forum is a key feature of the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), a GKP Event on the Future on 'Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies' that will gather 2000 participants from 11-13 December 2007 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia. The 100 young social entrepreneurs sponsored to attend the Global Young Entrepreneurs' Forum are selected through a fully web-based Competition that is open to all regions of the globe. Application details and jury evaluation results will be viewable to the public who will also be able to post comments. To know more about the Application process , or the Fellowship process , contact anthony@gkps.org.my

Harvard Business School Study on Land Ownership

In a recent paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, HBS professor Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani of the University of Washington, St. Louis, and Ernesto Schargrodsky of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella comparing the beliefs of two groups of squatters living in the Solano neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. What the scholars found could be the start of a better understanding of why capitalism remains unpopular through large swaths of the world—particularly in areas where property rights are weak or nonexistent. In an unusual set-up that Di Tella describes as "a natural experiment," about 1,800 landless families (organized by a Catholic priest) occupied the area in 1981, believing it was owned by the state. In fact, it was made up of privately held tracts of land belonging to 13 owners. Over the years, the squatters resisted several eviction attempts, until a change in government in 1984 resulted in a state proposal to pay off the owne...

Oracle School Express Free to African Schools

Oracle has released Oracle School Express (OSE), software designed to assist in school administration. Available for free to African schools, OSE is a data capturing and reporting tool that enables school administrators to capture student statistics such as registrations, attendance, marks and school fees. The software runs by default on a standard PC but can be plugged into a larger database if individual schools require it. OSE was developed using Oracle Application Express and was built by staff at Oracle's South African office. Oracle Application Express is a development tool designed for rapid development of database-centric web applications. The Rest @ Tectonic

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