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Twitter and international development: Who to follow and why

Here's a list of three interesting users to follow for each of Global Envision’s six beats.

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Mobile Technology

Tools for tweets: How to stop harassment with online mapping

A nonprofit startup is trying to stop the pervasive harassment of women in Egypt using a revolutionary tool--the Internet.

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Youth Skills

Young leaders from the Middle East tackle big challenges at home

Emerging leaders from across the Middle East are concocting plans to combat social and economic instability in their home countries.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Starbucks in Colombia + Afghans' views on Western influence

Staff picks: What we're reading this week. Wiring the world, Starbucks opens in Bogota, and Afghans share their view on the West's influence.

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Sustainable Energy

The fortune at the bottom of the ocean: Mozambique’s looming natural gas boom

The solution to Mozambique’s long-standing economic woes might lurk beneath the Indian Ocean’s rocky sea floor.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Climate refugees + The business of aid

Climate change pushes refugees into circumstances without protection or refugee status, economic value and social value are not necessarily mutually exclusive and coups beget coups. Staff picks: what we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

Developing the tractor-for-hire business in post-conflict northern Uganda

As opportunity grows in northern Uganda after 20 years of violent conflict, farmers are building back and reinvesting in the land. But a lack of tractors could keep the region hungry.

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Youth Skills

Largely Peaceful Kenyan Vote Bolstered by Youth, Technology

The U.S. Institute for Peace interviews a youth peace-activist in Kenya.

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Value Chains

Bolivian farmers earn a title to their land 40% faster with better technology

Unjust land holdings in developing countries create and sustain inequality, but new mobile phone technology is simplifying the land titling process and securing plots for farmers.