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Ireland Well Placed to Become a Global Leader in Digital Healthcare
Ireland well placed to become a global leader in digital healthcare. Photo: Shutterstock By John Kennedy, Silicon Republic Ireland – with its concentration of ICT giants, pharmaceutical and medical device makers – is strategically placed to become a world leader in digital healthcare technologies, a…
Author: Silicon Republic
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Revolutionising Research and Higher Education
In a recent Irish Times article, Conor O’Clery tells the story of how, in the late 1990s, Atlantic struck a deal with the Irish Government to jointly invest in post-graduate research. Back then, Atlantic Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney envisioned a quantum leap to help create a knowledge…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Joint Vision for a Healthy Future
By Janelle Miles If you build it, they will come. Queensland’s Translational Research Institute is still under construction but it’s already attracting plenty of interest from leading US medical researchers. US philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who provided millions of dollars towards the project, toured the Brisbane…
Author: The Courier-Mail
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The 3-Minute Interview: William Schambra
By Hayley Peterson Schambra is director of the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, which informs the public on the nonprofit sector and encourages charitable foundations and donors to direct more resources toward grass-roots associations, as opposed to political advocacy groups. What…
Author: The Washington Examiner
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Celebrating Irishness: Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney
Charles Feeney was born to a working class family in New Jersey, USA in the early 1930′s. His father’s mother hailed from near Kinawley, in Co Fermanagh, from where she emigrated to the USA. In the 1960′s he co-founded Duty Free Shoppers, which sold luxury…
Author: The Silver Voice
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Dalai Lama to visit Ireland in April
The Tibetan spiritual and political leader the Dalai Lama is to make his third visit to the Republic this April. The Nobel Peace Laureate will take part in a series of events for the social change initiative “Possibilities 2011”, which is run by three Irish-based…
Author: Irish Times
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The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics
by Gara LaMarche and Deepak Bhargava Twenty-one months after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a wave of hope for change in America’s politics and policies, at least two important and seemingly contradictory things can be said. First, there has been a series of significant progressive reforms: an economic…
Author: The Nation
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Secrecy Bill open to future abuse
FARANAAZ PARKER Civil society organisations on Wednesday warned that repressive laws, such as the proposed Protection of Information Bill (POI) would come back to haunt the state further down the line. “A Bill, once it’s passed into law, does not stay in the statute books…
Author: Mail & Guardian
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Free speech advocate 'in hot seat'
By Wilson Johwa. No sooner had she joined the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), than Ayesha Kajee was thrust into the middle of the tussle over press freedom. Ms Kajee took over as director of the FXI on July 1, coming from the University of…
Author: Business Day
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UH professor helps boost Vietnam's clinics
KHANH HOA PROVINCE, Vietnam. When patients at the government-run health clinic in Ninh Tho used to complain about waiting too long to see a doctor or nurse, the staff would just ignore them, manager Pham Thi Thanh Can said. “Before the (customer service) training, we…
Author: Advertiser Star