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| AIDS and Poverty in Africa
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| Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011
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| The Challenge of World Poverty
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| Prof. DaveEsther DonaldsonDuflo, Prof. EstherAbhijit DufloBanerjee
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| D-Lab I: Development
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| Development Economics: Macroeconomics
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| Prof. Robert M. Townsend
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| Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
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| Targeting the Poor: Local Economic Development in Developing Countries
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===Ideas===
 
One vision for One Laptop per Child / OLPC - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT - was to make rugged computers available to the 2 billion poorest children in the world, which focus on literacy and computing access for the poor is a remarkable action to eliminate poverty.
 
 
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Open Journal Systems. 2012. [http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Open Journal Systems]. Public Knowledge Project.
 
(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).
 
 
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Mandell, Betty Reid. 2014. [http://newpol.org/blog/7 Betty Reid Mandell's blog]. New York, NY: New Politics.
 
 
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Yunus, Muhammad. 1999. Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the battle against world poverty. New York, NY: Public Affairs' Books.
 
 
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Street Sheet.
 
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Brown, Desmond. 2011. [http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/07/363117/census-programs-poverty/ New Census Data Shows Safety Net Programs Keep Millions Out Of Poverty]. November 7. Cambridge, MA: Think Progress.
 
The Challenge of World Poverty » Readings. 2009. [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-73-the-challenge-of-world-poverty-fall-2009/readings/ The Challenge of World Poverty » Readings]. Cambridge, MA: MIT OCW.
 
Development through Dialogue, Design and Dissemination. 2009. [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-721-d-lab-i-development-fall-2009/course-notes/MITSP_721F09_lec01.pdf Development through Dialogue, Design and Dissemination]. Cambridge, MA: MIT OCW.
 
eentory. 2012. [http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/138249/economists-us-poverty-on-track-to-hit-highest-level-since-1960s Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s]. July 23. news.slashdot.org/
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Goodman, Amy. 2012. [http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/workers_feel_the_pain_of_bain_20120829/ Workers Feel the Pain of Bain]. August 29. TruthDig.
 
Keyes, Scott. 2014. [http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/27/many-homeless-people-will-freeze-death-winter/ How Many Homeless People Will Freeze To Death This Winter?].
November 27. billmoyers.com/2014/11/27/many-homeless-people-will-freeze-death-winter/ .
 
Leonhardt, David. 2013. [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/education/scholarly-poor-often-overlook-better-colleges.xml Better Colleges Failing to Lure Talented Poor]. March 17. New York, NY: The New York Times.
 
Mandell, Betty Reid. 2012. [http://newpol.org/node/601 Demonizing the Poor]. February 25. New York, NY: New Politics.
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Manual scavenging figures shocking, says Jairam. 2012. [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3511068.ece Manual scavenging figures shocking, says Jairam]. June 10. New Dehli, India: The Hindu.
 
Marquard, Bryan. 2014. [http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/09/30/betty-reid-mandell-west-roxbury-social-work-professor-was-longtime-advocate-for-poor/v4AG0b115FCcjXUcHL7HgK/story.html Betty Reid Mandell, at 89; longtime advocate for the poor]. OCTOBER 01. Boston, MA: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/09/30/betty-reid-mandell-west-roxbury-social-work-professor-was-longtime-advocate-for-poor/v4AG0b115FCcjXUcHL7HgK/story.html.
 
Moyers, Bill. 2012. [http://truth-out.org/news/item/10494-journalist-chris-hedges-on-capitalisms-sacrifice-zones-communities-destroyed-for-profit Journalist Chris Hedges on Capitalism's "Sacrifice Zones": Communities Destroyed for Profit]. 24 July. New York, NY: Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company.
 
O'Neill, Kathryn. 2013. [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/obama-duflo-global-development-council.html President Obama announces intent to appoint Esther Duflo to Global Development Council: MIT development economist nominated for presidential policy council]. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu.
 
Rayna St. 2013. [http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/04/05/opening-the-black-box-of-governance-alleviating-poverty-with-data/ Opening the Black Box of Governance: Alleviating Poverty With Data]. April 5. Cambridge, MA: globalvoicesonline.org.
 
Simanis, Erik. 2012. [http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/06/the_smart_way_to_make_profits.html The Smart Way to Make Profits While Serving the Poor]. June 20. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review.
 
Tendler, Judith. 1976. [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-471-targeting-the-poor-local-economic-development-in-developing-countries-spring-2010/readings/MIT11_471S10_Agrarian.pdf INTER-COUNTRY EVALUATION OF SMALL FARMER ORGANIZATIONS: HONDURAS - 'What Happens in an Agrarian Reform]. Cambridge, MA: For Office of Development Programs of the Latin America Bureau of A.I.D.
Tough, Paul. 2012. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/obama-poverty.html What Does Obama Really Believe In?]. New York, NY: The New York Times.
 
Tough, Paul. 2012. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/obama-poverty.html What Does Obama Really Believe In?]. August 19. New York, NY: The New York Times.
 
Whittle, MD, Amy. 2014. [http://www.aapca1.org/storage/april-2014/april-syllabus/AdvocacyWhittle3UP.pdf Advocacy Update: Through the Lens of Childhood Lens of Childhood Poverty]. Tahoe, CA: aapca1.org/storage/april-2014/april-syllabus/AdvocacyWhittle3UP.pdf.
 
Yglesias, Matthew. 2011. [http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/11/15/368214/will-science-reframe-poverty/ Will Science Reframe Poverty?] November 15. Cambridge, MA: Think Progress.
 
 
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Boettiger, Sara. 2013. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/12/boettiger Re-Thinking Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Models for the Poor]. (Global Access in Action Project). December 10. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/12/boettiger .
 
Doe, Kelvin. 2012. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLOLrUBRBY Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.]. Sierra Leone: MIT.
 
Gates, Bill, and Hans Rosling. 2012. [http://ki.se/en/bill-gates-meets-hans-rosling-at-ki Bill Gates and Hans Rosling debate the end of extreme poverty, 31 March at Karolinska Institutet]. Sweden: Karolinska Institutet.
 
Goodman, Amy with Denis Moynihan. 2012. [http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/8/30/workers_feel_the_pain_of_bain Workers Feel the Pain of Bain]. August 30. Democracy Now.
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Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
===Wikipedia===
 
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
 
 
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Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
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Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
 
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Entrepreneurship: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entrepreneurship
 
Human Services: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Services
 
Intellectual Property - IP Law: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Intellectual_Property_-_IP_Law
 
One Laptop per Child: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT
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UnitedSocial NationsScience: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_NationsSocial_Science
 
 
 
 
 
Social Work: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Work
 
United Nations: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations
 
 
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Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, MITGreatest OCWUniversities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.
 
 
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Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ .
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Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)
 
 
Google Glass
 
 
MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/
 
 
Oculus Rift
 
 
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===In Virtual World===
 
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
 
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/
 
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
 
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice
Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net
 
Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/
 
Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html
 
ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
 
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
 
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
 
OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)
 
Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/
 
Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/
 
Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
 
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
 
SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/
 
Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.
 
SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/
Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/
 
There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/
 
Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar
 
Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/
 
WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/
 
World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage
 
 
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Travel to this virtual island to learn building:
 
 
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Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
 
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===Learning Networking===
 
Teach and Learn using free Social BookmarkingNetworking software to identifyshare what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
 
 
About Me - World University and School -
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DiggFacebook.com's World University and School - http://diggwww.facebook.com/worlduniversityandschoolgroup.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').
 
 
Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool
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Quora - http://www.quora.com/
 
 
Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/
 
 
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World University & School 'subject page' group
 
 
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Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:
 
 
Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts
 
 
Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv
 
 
Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
 
 
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''Free, group video conferencing''
 
AnyMeeting - http://l.anymeeting.com/homepage/
 
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/
 
Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection
 
ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
 
Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com
 
sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎
 
Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok
 
Vyew - http://vyew.com/
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin
 
Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/
 
Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/
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http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator
 
Google Translate language:
 
Sugar Labs: Translation System language:
 
Region:
 
 
===The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School===
 
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Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaintwikifoundry.com/
 
 
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===World University and School Licensing===
 
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