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Youth Skills

Why financial inclusion for youth will raise all economic boats

Groups fighting for financial inclusion and youth employment united in Morocco. Will their findings promote progress?

African communities are becoming increasingly mobile-centric. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/70292973@N07/7192931934/">The Reboot (flickr)</a>

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Youth Skills

Windows to the world: Why Microsoft's $75 million mobile drop matters

Microsoft will spend $75 million to put tens of millions of smart devices into the hands of African youth by 2016, the company announced Monday.

A young women working the fields in Egypt Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfamnovib/6257022866/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> oxfamnovib (Flickr)</a>.

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Financial Inclusion

A small step for science, a giant leap for unemployed youth

As the youth unemployment rate closes in on 25 percent in the Middle East, young people are looking for jobs, and governments are looking for innovative ways to create them.

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Mobile phones: A jaw-dropping decade of success (INFOGRAPHIC)

The mobile revolution has taken over the world: 75 percent of the population now has access to phones. The applications are seemingly endless, from health care to agriculture. Check out the World Bank’s new infographic to see mobile phones' progress—click on either image to enlarge.

See the full infographic on <a href="http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1205/after-the-arab-spring/flash.html?source=9840&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Twitter_updates&utm_content=ArabSpring%2BInfographic%2BMay23">GOOD.IS</a>.

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What Arab youth still want: jobs

Arab youth know what caused the uprisings a year ago. What they want to know is how their day-to-day lives will improve once the fanfare of elections subsides.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

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To find tomorrow's jobs, the Middle East looks beyond oil

More than 15 million young people will need jobs in the Middle East and North Africa over the coming 10 years.

Protesters wave Egypt's flag. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caitelle/5403613016/sizes/m/in/photostream/">C. Elle (flickr)</a>

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Turning Arab Spring youth opinions into data - and change

This story was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.

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From National Public Radio: Egypt's youth await a jobs revolution

Egypt today sounds a lot like Egypt before the revolution: high unemployment, corruption, poverty. And a whopping 35 percent unemployment rate for people under the age of 30.

The use of technology in humanitarian aid planning is on the rise. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22015699@N00/343384475/">Esther Gibbons (Flicker)</a>

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Technology against poverty: Three inspiring new successes

2011 is over, but the impact technology had on humanitarian aid planning last year could be just beginning to emerge.

Humanitarian issues demand immediate solutions. In 2011, a lot of solutions to crises placed heavy emphasis on technology. Here are three notable examples:

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How to use Google’s 9 rules of innovation for social good

Adapted from a report by Lisa Hoashi, Mercy Corps Senior Internal Communications Officer.

Creativity means doing something new. Innovation means doing something differently.

Our world of scarcity needs both.

Declaring Internet access a human right would dilute the rights that matter more, says Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. Photo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vint_Cerf_-_2010.jpg">Veni Markovski (Wikimedia)</a>

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Internet inventor: Poor people deserve livelihoods, not websites

Get real: The Internet isn't a human right.

57 million women give birth each year without the help of a trained professional. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7203470@N03/2366525625/">hugrakka(Flicker)</a>

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Birth kits: An immediate solution to lowering maternal deaths

Bringing one life into the world shouldn't mean sacrificing another. While the developing world scrambles to secure funding for midwifery services, there's a cheap, short-term solution: birth kits.