Various members of the BayPIGies show off cool things you can do with just a snippet of Python code.

Plenary 2: Financing Efforts to Combat Climate Change

[Moderator] Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
Monique Barbut, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
James Cameron, Vice Chair, Climate Change Capital [United Kingdom]
Jan-Peter Onstwedder, BP Project Director, The London Accord [United Kingdom]
Ira Magaziner, Chairman, Policy Board, HIV/AIDS Initiative, and the Clinton Climate Initiative, The William J. Clinton Foundation

Join urban anthropologist Eric Lynxwiler on a road trip down historic Wilshire Boulevard as he guides you past landmarks big and small with anecdotes true and fantastical.

This video is part of the Authors@Google series.

Gene B. Sperling is Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Gene Sperling was President Clinton’s National Economic Adviser and head of the National Economic Council from 1996-2000. Before joining the Council, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2001-2002. In addition to his work at the Council, Gene also serves as a Contributing editor and columnist for Bloomberg News and a consultant and contributing writer for the television show The West Wing. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Gene is widely considered an expert in economic policy…

Meet the Reuters Digital Vision Fellows from Stanford University and learn about the innovative applications of technology that these entrepreneurs are developing for the social sector in emerging markets.

Interested in how blogging is being used as a literacy tool in Brazil? Ever consider how instant messaging services could be used to facilitate medical treatment in Pakistan? Did you know that people are using cell phones as a platform for commodity price and weather information in India? Ever wonder what web 2.0 services would look like in Kenya, the Philippines or Estonia?

Plenary 8: Financing Global Health

[Moderator] William H. Foege, Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Liza Kimbo, Director, Sustainable Healthcare Foundation [Kenya]
Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS
Richard Feachem, former Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Professor of International Health, UC San Francisco

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is an offshoot of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, a journal created by nervous people in relative obscurity, and published four time a year.

This talk is part of the Authors@Google series.

Jackie Khor is Associate Director and manager of the Rockefeller Foundations Program Venture Experiment (ProVenEx). ProVenEx is an investment fund within the Foundation that extends loan guarantees and makes program-related and private equity investments to catalyze private sector capital into underserved sectors and geographies.

Jackie is responsible for making and managing ProVenEx investments and private sector partnerships in the following sectors that reflect the Foundation’s thematic programs: agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, global public health, inner city employment and community development in the US, and the arts and culture. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Jackie was…

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