Wyclef Jean To Run for President of Haiti Grammy Award-Winning Musician and Humanitarian Makes Monumental Decision to Seek Political Office as Part of Ongoing Commitment to His Homeland’s Future PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Wyclef Jean, accompanied by his wife, Claudinette, daughter, Angelina, and other close family members, announced this evening that he will [...]
What happens when institutions and bureaucracies face off against the rapid influx of new technologies? In workplace cultures previously unaccustomed to accepting failure, such as government agencies, they are challenged to adjust perspectives and to allow the exploration of new technologies to follow an evolutionary course. This is the theme that Lovisa A. Williams, a [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Last night at its annual awards dinner, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights presented Bono and Wyclef Jean with the organization’s 2009 Ripple of Hope Award. The award recognizes the bold leadership demonstrated by the two honorees on humanitarian issues. “As champions of justice, Bono and Wyclef have brought the national spotlight to human rights violations, empowered local activists, and transformed the lives of millions of people living in poverty from Port-Au-Prince to Darfur,” said Kerry Kennedy, founder of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. “Their efforts evoke the spirit of my father and we are honored to recognize them.”
The contest is a call to action for global citizens around the world to engage in cross-cultural community building and mutual understanding.
DULLES, Va., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At 11:19 a.m. (EST) GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration. The [...]
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, a new 17-nation poll conducted for the BBC World Service finds widespread and growing optimism that his presidency will lead to improved relations between the United States and the rest of [...]
Historic event expected to continue upward trend in mobile television viewership evidenced during the 2008 presidential campaign EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ — MobiTV will bring a historic event to mobile devices, airing President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration live on Tuesday, January 20 beginning at 6 a.m. ET. MobiTV’s more than 5 million subscribers can tune [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ — With the much-anticipated inauguration of the nation’s 44th President less than a week away, Americans will now have the opportunity to treasure an extraordinary collection of presidential memorabilia. The Topps Company, Inc. today unveiled a Barack Obama commemorative trading card series which pays special tribute to President-Elect Barack Obama [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four leading education and business organizations — CoSN, ISTE, SIIA and SETDA — today applauded President-Elect Barack Obama’s call to invest in technology for the classroom as part of the forthcoming economic recovery package and urged targeted action by Congress. The groups endorsed the President-Elect’s goals to “equip tens [...]
Eric Steuer, January 13th, 2009, Doha, Qatar Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video footage released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time, footage of the War in Gaza – will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled [...]
