Remando Fuerte

Social entrepreneurs aren't going far enough to create systemic change, what we need are social hackers Dan Morrison, The Guardian We live in an unsustainable world. Our climate is warming. Our food system is failing. Our clean water sources are drying up. But fear not, social entrepreneurs are here to the rescue! They are our socially-minded heroes using the market, building businesses and offering us products and services that will save the world. But wait ... Carbon emissions rose at a  slower rate in 2012 , but they are still rising. Our food system still fails  to feed one billion people and is making one billion people obese. And the world's greatest rivers – Amu Darya, Colorado Rivers, Ganges, Murray, Indus, Nile, Rio Grande, Syr Darya, Teesta, and Yellow –  are all running dry  at some point in the year before they reach the sea. We don't have centuries to solve these problems. We have a couple of decades or our children will live in a world we have...

Gilda González Sandoval  Si hay un espacio para crecer en el negocio, encadenarse a empresas transnacionales y jugar en las grandes ligas del comercio internacional es en el sector de las dispositivos médicos. El crecimiento registrado en su elaboración ha impulsado al país para que hoy ocupe el primer lugar por Latinoamérica y el cuarto en el mundo en exportación de bienes industriales de alta tecnología, según el Banco Mundial, 2013. Estas exportaciones alcanzaron una cifra de más de $1.500 millones en el 2013. Han crecido dos veces más rápido que el resto de las exportaciones de bienes en zona franca. El potencial de Costa Rica en la exportación de alta tecnología incluye, además de los dispositivos médicos, subsectores como la biotecnología, farmacéutica, productos electromédicos y estudios clínicos. Sin embargo, el más dinámico es la elaboración de piezas médicas para padecimientos cardiovasculares, aplicaciones estéticas, ortopédicos, gastroenterología y urología, as...

Luis Diego Oreamuno for the Global Shapers Community blog  http://www.globalshapers.org/news/real-sense-community Over two years ago, in Geneva, conversations about the need to renew the younger generation of WEF began; more than only renew this generation, to promote  local projects in our cities. Soon, with help of community members such as the Young Global Leaders (YGL´S), the community grew in a very short term with more than 200 hubs around the world. For many, this new initiative, meant a risk, especially opening space and integrating to the dialogue within WEF events to people between 20-30 years old; for others, this represented a clear opportunity with some expected results but most enthusiastic for those that have not yet imagined. Soon we heard about Shapers in discussion panels or moderating at events like Davos, Tianjin or the regional WEF meetings. After these experiences, it has been easy to identify natural and refreshing exchanges of ideas between ic...

Derrick Harris, CNN Money Jonathan Reichental is the CIO of the City of Palo Alto, Calif., and one of the world’s leading proponents of open data. Why is he so big the idea of giving citizens access to the data their governments collect? Because even in times of recession and debt, he  said on our Structure Show podcast this week , the one thing governments always have in abundance is data. And it belongs to the people. However, Reichental noted, open data doesn’t just mean available data. One key notion is that the data should be available in the formats people need — including those that are readable by machines — so they can do the things they need to do with it. “That machine readable concept is an important, important criteria that differentiates open data from just accessing data,” he said. Here are some highlights from our interview, in which Reichental states his case for why governments should undertake the work of making their data open and makes clear that w...

Jacqueline Smith, Forbes Here are 14 things successful people do (or should be doing) on weekends:  1. Make time for family and friends.  This is especially important for those who don’t spend much time with their loved ones during the week. 2. Exercise.  Everyone needs to do it, and if you can’t work out 4 to 5 days during the workweek, you need to be active on weekends to make up for some of that time, Vanderkam says. It’s the perfect opportunity to clear your mind and create fresh ideas. “I know an owner of a PR firm who takes walks in the park with his dog to spark ideas about how to pitch a new client, or what angle to take with the press for a story,” Kurow says. Cohen suggests spin classes and outdoor cycling in the warmer months. “Both are energizing and can be organized among people with shared interests. For example, it is not uncommon for hedge fund folks and Wall Street professionals to ride together on weekends. It is a great way to establish a...

Jason Clarke  Nunca está de más contar con una ayuda extra para cumplir con los propósitos de año nuevo. Con el calendario recién estrenado, muchas personas decidirán que este 2014 es el año para sacar al cigarrillo de sus vidas, ponerse en forma, ser más agradecidos, vivir una vida más tranquila y con menos estrés. La realidad no siempre es color de rosa para estos esperanzados: tan sólo 8% de quienes establecen propósitos de año nuevo logran su cometido, según un estudio de la Universidad de Scranton. Por ello, la ‘app’ correcta puede encaminarle y mantenerle enfocado en su resolución para el año que empieza. Cumplir con un propósito de año nuevo involucra un cambio de hábitos, lo cual no es fácil de lograr. Por ello existen ‘apps’ como  21habit  , que le ayudan a incorporar esos cambios en su vida a lo largo de 21 días. Si elige el modo “compromiso” e invierte $21 (unos ¢10.500), 21habit le devolverá un dólar por cada día que sea exitoso manteniendo s...