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Our hope is that these applications will not only serve as a way for you to flex your muscles, win some cash and get the credit you deserve, but also to become place for people to find interesting ways to mashup data for the betterment of all. Please let our fellow technologists and government tech leaders know this places exists and that the applications are for all to remix, refine and republish.

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From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

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Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.

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The Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force ISPs to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.

Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home. Don't let him!

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The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.

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Creating awareness of the extremely drug-resitant TB (XDR-TB).

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Project 10100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

www.project10tothe100.com/index.html - Preview

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We Are Together is a film that tells the incredible story of Slindile Moya and the children of Agape choir. Filmed over three years, it follows the children's remarkable journey as they overcome hardship and loss to a life changing musical journey.

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PhilosopherSeed.org seeks to provide information which the Corporate media hasn't the time or inclination to provide.

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What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it?

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YouTomb is a site that scans YouTube for that metadata and shows you a list of recently removed videos. You can't actually watch any videos on YouTomb. But you can find out who asked for them to be removed.

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Look over the Ideas section of this website. This will get you thinking about possibilities. Read the Stories section if you’d like to learn about projects that have already been executed.

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An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus

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"Teachers across WA were on strike this morning after the State School Teachers Union decided to defy an order not to take industrial action." As seen in this blog the issue hits a nerve. Teachers need pay but they need support and respect more.

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Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis.

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A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members

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Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world.

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Certain parties don't want you to know certain facts.

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School-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world is able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning.

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This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And Ivan Krstić was there to hand out the first one.

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