In her blog entry for the Atlantic Monthly, Anne Marie Slaughter discussed last week's meetings at the UN. She writes of the shift of attention towards global issues related to poverty and the role of women:
"All of these shifts flow from a deeper vision of a global tree of life: a world in which personal mobile technology can connect every human being in every village in every country to the tap roots of knowledge, markets, services, and community. That vision is social, developmental, digital and global. It's a powerful motivator. And it's pushing out the foreign policy frontier."
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/the-future-of-global-connectivity/245943/
This is particularly interesting to me because my daughter, whose primary interest is micro-savings (not to be mistaken for micro-credit) is at a conference in Tanzania this week, addressing many of the same issues. The photo above is from a micro-savings meeting she attended recently in rural Kenya. She will be live-bloggin at:http://savings-revolution.org/
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