Pondering World Issues on a Sunday Morning

Warren Buffet has just announced that he will donate most of his fortune of about $40 Billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This is the single most savvy philanthropic gesture of our times. Listen to the trio discuss it.

Kleiner Perkins has ear-marked $100M of its $800M to CleanTech. John Doerr is using his clout not only at the business level, but at a geo-political level to raise awareness. In this video, you will see Doerr as a substitute host for Charlie Rose, interviewing Friedman.

I believe, Dr. Yunus should win the Nobel Prize. Many others believe the same, including Bill Clinton. If you are not familiar with his work in Bangladesh on MicroFinance, listen to his speech in this video. Gates talks about MicroFinance in the Charlie Rose interview, so you can see what he is talking about.

Here’s a link to the MIT Open Courseware project, which aims to put all MIT courses online for broad usage all over the world. This is the single most generous effort in enhancing the level of higher education worldwide, and is causing other top institutes in the US to think of doing the same.