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Untitled. Expanding opportunities for young people is a challenge in many countries, particularly when over 60 per cent of the population is below the age of 30. With no signs that population growth will slow in the decades to come, it is imperative that we leverage the talent and energy of our young people to create dramatically higher levels of prosperity and equality and avoid the latent risks of unemployment and social instability. By building young people’s skills, harnessing their energy, and acknowledging young people’s aspirations, would help every country reduce its youth unemployment and fulfil the potential of all young people in order to contribute to economic growth and social stability. Empowering young people with opportunities to reach full potential is both one of the most important challenge and most vital opportunity in today’s world. Download case studies: Download the booklet » Ning: Failures, Lessons and Six Alternatives. Ning, the network of social networks that boasted 20 million visitors a month, is making massive staff cutbacks and has announced a complete end to free services for its users.

Those who pay for premium services will be asked to pay more, and those who are getting their social networks free of charge will be asked to fork over or phase off the Ning platform. For a while now, we've been seeing Ning through rose-colored glasses. One year ago to the day, the company announced it had attained 1 million unique social networks built on its platform, along with a $500 million valuation. In May 2009, the company rolled out a developer platform along with 90 ready-to-go applications for network creators. On paper, their numbers were looking great.

Then, just last month, we got word that CEO Gina Bianchini had left the company. When I became CEO 30 days ago, I told you I would take a hard look at our business. The Cost of Free There are dozens of ways to have a self-sustaining community. Global Citizen. Publications. IDS publishes in-house many freely downloadable Working Papers, Research Reports, Practice Papers, Policy Briefings and Rapid Response Briefings, covering all development themes from our Research Teams.

Working with our publishers, Wiley, IDS also publishes six issues of our flagship journal, the IDS Bulletin, each year. Individually-themed issues bring together the latest thinking and research from programmes and events and present them in an accessible way for the wide range of audiences working in development. Through our online bookshop books written by IDS Researchers for external publishers are available for purchase.

The Potential and Limits of the ‘Resilience Agenda’ in Peri-urban Contexts Today, it is acknowledged that peri-urban space plays a critical and increasing role role is still poorly understood and peri-urban areas are rarely recognised in the in relation to urban expansion. On a Wing and a Prayer? Piktochart: Infographic and Presentation Tool for Non-Designers. TechSoup Global. Www.ictd2013.info. The Change Agency. Center for Digital Storytelling. 99U - Insights on making ideas happen.

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