On Obama's initiative, it has been decided that leaders of the United Nations Security Council member countries will meet on Sept. 24 to discuss nuclear issues.
Vint Cerf gives his wish for the future of the Internet at Global INET 2012, a conference sponsored by the Internet Society, April 22-24, 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference, titled "Imagining the Future Internet," celebrated the Internet Society's 20th anniversary. Recorded by a documentary team from Imagining the Internet, an initiative of the School of Communications at Elon University, located in Elon, North Carolina, USA. For complete coverage of Global INET 2012, go to: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions...
15 jan 2014 "Jason led a Westminster Hall debate on the UK's relations with the Kurdistan region of Iraq. As an RAF Officer Jason served on the No Fly Zone over Northern Iraq in the 1990s protecting the Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein. He returned to the Kurdistan Region last summer to see a peaceful, progressive and democratic society. In the debate closer economic, educational and diplomatic ties were urged. In November the inaugural event of the Huddersfield University Kurdish alumni took place in Erbil as 130 Kurdish students have studied at our local University."
TED June 2013 ; papandreou prime minister 2010, decisions on austerity, greece triggered the eurocrises; but greece was only a symptom; our democracies trapped by systems too big to fail ("the markets"); I relised that we were lead by our fears which lead to blind ffaith in orthodoxy