Development Gateway Foundation

from its website:

The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. We help improve people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.

We exploit powerful and affordable information and communication technologies (ICT) that were previously unavailable to:

• Increase knowledge sharing;
• Enable aid effectiveness;
• Improve public sector transparency; and
• Build local capacity to empower communities.

The Development Gateway is an independent not-for-profit organization. It was conceived by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed in the World Bank. Operations began in July 2001.

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Green Building Information Centre

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Sustainble Bulding Database

The SBIS system is designed to provide users with non-commercial information about sustainable building around the world, and to point or link the user to more detailed sources of information elsewhere.

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building upon the unprecedented opportunities of the 21st century to improve equity in global health and learning—because the life and potential of a child born in one place is as valuable as that in another.

The foundation was created in January 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries, and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. Led by Bill Gates’ father, William H. Gates, Sr., and Patty Stonesifer, the Seattle-based foundation has an endowment of approximately $25 billion through the personal generosity of Bill and Melinda Gates.

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The Markle Foundation:

Emerging information and communication technologies possess enormous potential to improve people's lives. The Markle Foundation works to realize this potential and to accelerate the use of these technologies to address critical public needs.

The foundation focuses its work in the program areas of Policy for a Networked Society and Information Technologies for Better Health.

• Markle's policy program seeks to advance the policy foundation that will enable the public to benefit fully from information and communication technologies (ICT). We work on ICT policies to improve national security, stimulate development in impoverished nations, and enhance innovation. We also seek to establish ICT policymaking processes that are inclusive and accountable so that the results serve the public interest.
  
  
• Markle's health program seeks to accelerate the use of information and communication technologies by patients and consumers to improve their health and healthcare.
  
  

The Markle Foundation pursues its work by drawing together an effective mix of people, ideas and resources from all sectors-public, private and non-profit-in order to create strategic, sustainable solutions. The foundation creates and operates with partners most of its own projects.

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The Benton Foundation:

The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Our focus is on leveraging media and technology in innovative ways as a means to strengthen communities. We envision a learning society where opportunities to expand people’s potential exists at every citizen’s fingertips and where access, equity and diversity have pride of place.

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The Grameen Technology Center focuses on technology that:

• makes the delivery of microcredit even more efficient
• enhances income generating opportunities for the rural poor
• provides poor communities access to information for better health and education.

The Grameen Technology Center is an initiative of Grameen Foundation USA, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1997.

Grameen Foundation USA empowers the world's poorest people to lift themselves out of poverty with dignity through access to financial services and to information.

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Benetech is a non-profit venture that combines the impact of technological solutions with the social entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged communities in our society and across the world.

	The Benetech Initiative and Social Entrepreneurship Technology's Impact on Social Problems Current Projects New Philanthropic Option for the Technological Community Benetech's Origins — The Arkenstone Story The Future — Technology Serving Humanity

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