tailieunhanh - wiley philanthropy in a flat world phần 2

toàn cầu hóa làm từ thiện có nghĩa là những gì và làm thế nào nó ảnh hưởng đến hầu hết các tổ chức địa phương và quốc tế nhất. Đầy đủ truyền cảm hứng cho câu chuyện thực tế liên kết với các chiến lược thực tế, Jon thách thức các tổ chức phi lợi nhuận và gây quỹ để có được nó lại với nhau trong thế giới phẳng. | Chapter One The Flat World From Columbus to Skinny Lattes Before Christopher Columbus Vasco da Gama and others took up the challenge of the unknown and sailed out into the wide oceans to look for and conquer new lands we believed the world was flat. We could see until a certain point and then the land and ocean started to disappear. Then our explorer friends helped incidentally by Galileo and astronomers everywhere allowed us to realize that actually our planet was round. It was spinning through 7 FLAT AND BEAUTIFUL a universe of other stars and planets all of which seemed to be round too. The round world was characterized by distance by different cultures by uncharted territories. . . . And then in the latter part of the twentieth century the world got flat again. Everything that had defined the round world was suddenly brought into question. You could fly from one side of the world to another in less than a day without ever moving from seat 24B. You could hold a conversation with another person of a totally different culture in a different time zone in a shared language at any time of the day or night. And that was before the Internet. Now the world is literally at your fingertips and Google is working toward becoming the ultimate Big Brother and trying to put at our fingertips all the information that has ever existed in the world. As we shall see later the flat world is an incredible playing field for us all. It has brought opportunity to bring change in a way that we could never have dreamed about just 20 years ago. It has put us in a world of incredible wealth and at the same time given us the keys to solve poverty. It has altered perceptions and interactions in a nonreversible and very positive way by giving information to those who never had it before. But it has 8 The Flat World also brought something that we need to be acutely aware of responsibility. With opportunity comes responsibility. With responsibility comes the role of the individual you and me .