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| THE NEXT FOUR BILLION | |
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72% of the World population is considered "poor", but a recent
and exhaustive survey performed by the World Resources Institute reveals that
those 4,000 millions of people have a purchasing power higher than 3.7 trillion
euros. This report (164 pages, PDF, 11 MB.) is entitled "The next four billion: market size and
business strategy at the base of the pyramid".
This population segment forming the ‘Base of the Economic Pyramid’ (BOP), constitutes a $5 trillion global consumer market. |
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Hunger in the World... 4.7 billion people live in underdeveloped countries. 40,000 people is dying of hunger every day, one person every 2 seconds. More than 1 billion people are in severe conditions of endemic malnutrition. 1.5 billion do not have access to clean drinking water. 12 million children perish due to starvation and extreme povertry. 6 millon people die from drinking contaminated water, which equates to more than 16,000 daily... |
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| REAL-TIME COUNTER | |
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Real-time counter of people dying, now and and today, of hunger.
Every day, almost 40,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds. More than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient malnutrition, also called the "hidden hunger". 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies cause nearly one in three people to die prematurely or have disabilities. Every year, more than 20 million low-birth weight babies are born in developing countries... |
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| POWERS OF TEN | |
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Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change,
of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. Discover the relative size of everything
in the universe. Powers of Ten is based on a amazing film: "Powers of Ten" produced by The Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Format: "Streaming", 9 min. |
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| THE RAY KURZWEIL READER | |
| The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection
of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical
life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology,
and other aspects of our future world. The 30 essays, organized in seven
memes (such as "How
to Build a Brain"), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded
to "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" and "Human Body
Version 2.0." © Ray Kurzweil (a brief career summary) Format: PDF, 228 pages, 4.2 MB. |
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| WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2005 (The most important press photo contest of the year) | |
The international jury of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2005. World Press Photo jury chairman James Colton described the winning image: "This picture has haunted me ever since I first saw it two weeks ago. It has stayed in my head, even after seeing all the thousands of others during the competition. This image has everything - beauty, horror and despair. It is simple, elegant and moving." |
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| THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR WORLD TRADE (DEMO) | |
| Through the present Demo you can
follow step by step the complete process of an automatic operation On-line of
Import-Export, in Real Time, including: 1) Operation selection, 2) Search the specific product 3) Available update offer, 4) Offer selection: quantity, FOB dates, price, port, etc., 5) Transport and Sure policies, 6) Automatic Documentary Credit, 7) Tariff offices, Tariffs, Inspections and documentation with electronic support, 8) Pursuit OnLine of the operation until the delivery and reception on the part of the Associate Importer. Equally, other important advantages: automatic credit of SCiNet to the Associates, in DCCE's (Digital Certificates of Commercial Exchange). |
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| COMPARISON CHART | |
| "Comparison Chart: World Trade, B2B Exchanges, E-Commerce and Worldwide
intermediary systems" Special Bulletin, March 2003. Appendix: Sources and References. Format: .PDF | 129 KB. Download Acrobat Reader® Developed by © World Trade News |
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| VIRUS AND DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM | |
| "...The boss of a senior hexagon found a code as confusing as the others,
but one that had two almost homogenous lines. He showed his discovery to an itinerant
decoder, who told him they were drafted in a Babylonian code. Others told him
they were drafted in Yiddish. Centuries later a voice was heard from beyond: "No, don't do it like that... |
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