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@aboutdignity love your Twitter concept! dignity rocks.

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#IDLO participant Gerardo Porras shows microfinance and job training pgm for prisons in Peru. struck by the emphasis on dignity

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RT @jayrosen_nyu: News industry, meet your leader, and his lieutenants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance... [bye, Roop; won't miss ya]

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last hour of the #IDLO alumni workshop in Rome. sad to see everyone heading diff ways; happy to know what they're going to do

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RT @EthanZ: Researching great Marconi quote: "The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous."

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emphasis of some #IDLO participant projects is legal aid and capacity building for illiterate and underserved ppl wwide

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#IDLO participant Dilrukshi from Sri Lanka proposes an ODR system (Online Dispute Resolution) for microfinance

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2 of us marveled at the granola for bfst at Rome hotel. asked & it turned out to be a big bag of Kellogg's! both surprised

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RT @ekreeger RT @craigstoltz: Implications of vast geo-mobile data--ubiquitous time/space/travel transparency. Yipes http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jo...

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we'll probably be off the Net till late Tuesday. everyone gets a break from my crazy Twitter burst this week

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#IDLO proposal from @elija09 is for an insurance system for microfinance agents. great idea for making them sustainable

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now following @elija09 (Elias Baruti) from Tanzania and in the #IDLO microfinance program. add him if you're into MF in Africa

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#IDLO participant from India describing project to help women discharged from prisons in Tamil Nadu w temp home & microfinance

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very poor (< $2/day) have very sophisticated & sometimes illogical approaches to saving, financing & surviving shocks #IDLO

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#IDLO participant Minakshi talking about financial diaries vs surveys & ethnog studies. see Portfolios of the Poor as an example

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RT @NicoleSimon: twitterwall used at #ebe09 http://www.visibletwwets.com/ http://www.twitterfalls.com/ [viz tweets is byootiful!]

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at #IDLO, interesting angle of role that hometown associations have in remittances from workers abroad. anyone know more?

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RT @mgorbis: Saving the world, one line of code at a time: Random Hacks of Kindness http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009... /via @google (via @ivomortani)

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RT @TEDchris: Can Brazil defeat deforestation? It just might be happening: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... [hearing gr8 things bout Brazil at #IDLO]

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RT @ict4d: Lessons for the Design of Mobile Money Services by Jan Chipchase http://www.janchipchase.com/blog...

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RT @avantgame: RT @jerrymichalski i'd guess that what's wrong is that affirming it doesn't feel like a meaningful participatory gesture [+!]

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RT @RobinGood: Books Online Video = Vooks: Watchable, Readable, & Very Cool http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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as an iPhone user sersly considering Droid, Pogue's article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009...) reminds me why I might not. listening, Verizon?

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hmmm, how come only 7,500 ppl have affirmed the Charter for Compassion so far? http://charterforcompassion.org/ what's wrong w it?

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@thegroupery yes, let's turn up the volume on a system (education) that isn't working. just ducky.

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RT @Grant27: celebrating the departure of Lou Dobbs, old regime knucklehead, http://www.vanityfair.com/online...

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an article describing Venezuelan "express" kidnappings: http://bit.ly/1zwSKu@oevl (try 2: URL didn't send)

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an article describing Venezuelan "express" kidnappings: http://bit.ly/1zwSKu@oevl

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VZ kidnappers run credit check on victims on drive to holding sites 2 maximize ransom demands. almost a spot market! #IDLO

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over #IDLO lunch learned abt the kidnapping industry in Venezuela, stratified & anonymized into a profit machine

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