Josette Perard is director of Fon Lanbi Haiti, the Haitian counterpart of the Lambi Fund. Fon Lanbi does training, capacity building and grant coordination for women’s and small farmers’ organizations in rural areas. Josette’s perspectives on community development follow. The idea of development is to provide everyone with the means to work, to meet their needs and to let them enjoy their human rights so they can be full citizens. But for development to occur, the system must change. And the people must be agents of that change. read more

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The People Must be Agents of Change: The Lambi Fund of Haiti

The internet could become unstable as the system migrates to a new addressing system, one of the founders of the network warns businesses.

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Internet faces ‘turbulent times’

Microsoft’s new gaming system, the Kinect, is not “racist,” as a gaming site suggested Thursday when it reported that the system’s facial-recognition feature did not recognize dark-skinned employees. Consumer Reports tested the claim and found that…

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Debunked: Microsoft Kinect Not ‘Racist’

Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander backs plans for a single benefit payment – but says the government is already making the system “more complex”.

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Labour backs ‘universal credit’

D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.

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Dinner bell follows class bell at some D.C. schools

D.C. public schools have started serving an early dinner to an estimated 10,000 students, many of whom are now receiving three meals a day from the system as it expands efforts to curb childhood hunger and poor nutrition.

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Dinner bell follows class bell at some D.C. schools

The 68,000 young people in Wales not currently in education or employment are being “failed” by the system, a report has found.

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Out of work young need minister

For the second year in a row, the nearly 54 million retirees and other Americans who receive Social Security benefits will not get any cost-of-living increase in 2011 in their monthly checks, government officials announced Friday, renewing debate over whether the system offers enough help in a weak…

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Social Security benefits again won’t go up

Facebook claims to have tightened security with one-time passwords but not everyone agrees the system is secure.

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Facebook offers temporary log-ins

More than 150,000 students could miss out on university but a large number have rejected offers or withdrawn from the system, Ucas says.

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Degree places ‘denied to 150,000′