HOPE

"Hope" 

The word means a lot for those who are surrounded by calamity / disasters of life. It can  illuminate the path in darkness of opposite situations. When U wake up in the morning U HOPE that our routine & everything throughout the day will go smoothly. While U start racing we HOPE that only U 'll win. 

The whole day from morning to night we all feel the sense of this one word i.e. "HOPE"

Point of Views for Life

A bunch of Life Quotes

Destiny calls me, it has already late. I wanted to derive new paths. The paths which leads real achievement of life. Because just living is not enough. The purpose of life is a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. Life is just like a foreign food which looks attractive and tasty but we do not know the taste until we taste it ourself. A life without cause is a life without effect.  Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself.  Nights are long and life is predominantly good.  Wind is refreshing.  Tea is wisdom.  Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.  The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

Life is what we make it......................... <( :=>)

Flame and Tears Spread Love

Devotional Pics

New Life New View

Activity of life

New is new. But by now I’ve learned how quickly I how to preserve myself and making a new start whenever needed by constant reviewing and renewing. That means I have to work at the ‘new’ part when everything calls me back to old ways. Changing involves new way to work with it “planting seeds of change.” Every time I wake up to the Old, I find some way to plant a seed of New, even if there’s little else I can do against the force of habit. When will these new seeds sprout? How big will the fruit or flower be? No idea. Perhaps it’s not for me to know at my level of engagement. But I decide to trust that planting new seeds into the old way of doing things will say ‘yes’ to the deep wish to live differently. 

My wish felt as softening as a butterfly’s wing. I know I have to nourish those seeds each day, provide them a safer environment and save teem from the things which are against its life.

I can Create or destroy only if destruction required to create a new.

Our Assets

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.  

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desire brings weak results,
just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat. 

The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time,

effort and money into training, grooming, 

and encouraging your greatest asset.

If someone is going down the wrong road,
he doesn't need motivation to speed him up,
he needs education to turn him around.  

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you.
Most of all other people can't stop you.
Only you can stop you.
 
Human beings have the remarkable ability
to turn nothing into something.
They can turn weeds into gardens
and pennies into fortunes.  

It takes great courage to faithfully follow
what we know is true. 

 

Sound Of Silence

उसके बगैर अपने होने का ख्याल ही कैसे करूं,

मेरा तो वजूद ही पूरा होता है, जब वो साथ होता है |

बुतखाना, गिरजा ओ मस्जिद में तुझे ज़माने ने रोके रखा है,

नादानों को होने दे गर वहां तुझे पाने का भरम होता है |

एत्रफ ए मोहब्बत को बयां कैसे करें "खामोश",

कैसे दिखाएं कि अश्कों का सुखा दरिया कैसा होता है |

Justice is must for Peace and Humanity

Dream or Reality, Looking back towards the inner voices which compel me to think again and again about that incident. Well, let me write some situations and their after effect as follows:

* What should be done with the person who rescued a lady, a kid who were being tortured by a group of armed plunderers of sanctity, he fought bravely and controlled them?

* After this he rescued many women and girls and children and took out of the trauma also. Even he done many number of works for social awareness and welfare, but unfortunately he lost his memory (of the duration of rescue) and given responsibility to someone for re-memorise and make the funds (which were rewarded, granted for bravery) and facility and earnings available to him.

* What to say about this silly rescuer who is still being untold by those people who were firstly rescued by him and he and his spouse and kid have not seen even a paisa of their great job of life saving, in lieu of supporting those rescued people are creating such situations which make people think that rescuer has none of quality that made him powerful to confront those critical situations. He has not informed about anything which awarded, rewarded to him and his family for safety and awareness he produced in common people and organisations.

Without confusion, anybody will say that he must be appreciated and given respect for what he has done. But if he is not being given even the information about those works which he has done then what?

This incident may be dream or reality but do not take it negatively rather rethink and look around you for those people who are doing the similar injustice.

Justice is a must to maintain Peace and Humanity in society."

 

Innovation for Development

The Challenge

Climate change, environmental destruction, and armed conflict are adding to the already high levels of poverty and global inequality. At the same time, new technologies and inventions offer unprecedented opportunities to poor communities. Our challenge is to encourage the adoption of innovative practices in developing countries, and to do it better and faster than ever before. 

Our Vision

To be a catalyst of innovation for development – to identify and support new ways of “doing different things” and “doing things differently.”

Our Approach

We provide face-to-face and online platforms for nurturing and sharing innovative practical solutions to development challenges. We work with local and international partners and networks to solicit and screen new ideas through the Development Marketplace model, innovation labs, and innovation fairs. 

Development Marketplace: The Next Generation

Since 2000, an estimated 20,000 entrants, and 1,000 finalists have been vetted by thousands of expert jurors and assessors, resulting in 220 Development Martketplace projects. Winning ideas receive up to $200,000 in seed money, as well as guidance, training, and technical support for implementation.

Over $60 million dollars has been awarded through these global and regional competitions for early stage innovation with strong potential for development impact and replication.

Winners of these  competitions are bringing better health care, clean water, and other tangible benefits to hundreds of thousands of poor people in developing countries.  Supported by a consortium of partners including the World Bank Group, Development Marketplace is a centerpiece of WBI’s new Innovation Practice.
  
Join the conversation at the Development Marketplace Blog (http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog).

Enlightening 2011

Faith that Motivates

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

  

My pain, Needs Panacea

I am very lucky that I got appointment as ambassador in safer india which is really best acheivement in my life. Even then there are some elements are trying to make me stumble or stop. Since I got some other acheivement also for bravery and honesty after saving life. But I don't know that how & why many obstacles are rising enroute? I want to share my joy with family, friends, organization & well wishers who boosted me to move forward but such kind of mental tensions (by some?) are not allowing me. Even after such situations I can never feel weaker but there is somekind of depression developed which puts ? that whether my pure deeds will get its recognition ! 

I found that my peoples are getting wrong info which are leading them to opposite direction and when I have done right work and endangered my life then then why I am not getting all the acheievement in reality rather than all these negative environment being created around me? 

I beleive and everybody around me knows what I did and it is sure that Truth always Wins. I never let down those persons and orgs who gave me such opportunity to contribute and carry on the service officially by making it my profession yet what is making hurdles enroute is not palpable. Why I am not getting support from my own people in these paining days? May be due to getting wrong informations which are of such nature that holding my people to beleive and ask me. Still I am not dead and I have struggled and won the 1st  battle in my life to save humanity. 

I trust that I will get what I deserve one day but think that why such situations are not making my people to brood over my situation, are they not concerned?

I can not bear long time by being false (when I am not) in the views of my own people and I know they are getting wrong infos. 

All will be well because my deeds were for welfare and mankind.   

Happy New Year 4rm UNGlobal Pulse

2011: What's ahead

2011 will be the year that Global Pulse moves from design into implementation. 

Technology development
Our chief platform architect, Sara Farmer, will join the team this month and spearhead the design and development of the core architecture for our technology platform through a series of public events in collaboration with the global community. We will publish the first public reference architecture specifications and build a prototype of our platform for beta testing by the end of the year.

Building Innovation Capacity
We will open a Pulse Lab in Kampala in mid-year that will support the Ugandan Government in establishing a real-time crisis monitoring system. Team members Patrick Adengo and Gabriel White are already on the ground in Kampala identifying opportunities, partnerships and resource requirements and laying the foundation for a core team of local and international staff later in the year. We are already working on ideas for two more labs, which will be based in other regions. More about this later.

Real-time trends and retrospective analysis
We will be introducing regular reports on global shifts in vulnerability and what we are learning about how to detect and measure them.  This process will include a retrospective analysis of data that was available in real-time during the past three years of the global economic crisis, in order to discover novel impact and vulnerability indicators that could be used for real-time monitoring in current and future crises.

Upcoming: Social Media Week
In the second week of February, Global Pulse will be participating in Social Media Week, a global event that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media that will be held in six cities. We are convening sessions on two days under the title “Open UN: Engagement in the Age of Real-time.”  On Tuesday February 8, between 9:00 and 11:00 am, one panel discussion will discuss "the evolution of the crowd" at Google Headquarters in New York. On Thursday February 10, from 11:30 - 16:30, a longer program will feature a presentation of “ The Future of Real-time”, a report surveying the global real-time landscape to identify trends and opportunities that are rapidly transforming the relationships between societies and technology. The report was co-produced by PSFK, a New York City based trends research and innovation company, and Global Pulse.Two panel discussions will follow, one focusing on real-time field operations and citizen engagement, and the second tackling the challenges facing institutions adapting to the age of real-time. 

2010: The year in review

2010 was a formative year for Global Pulse.  As we move forward into 2011, we would like to share the highlights and some of the milestones we’ve passed along the way.  Looking back, a great deal has happened:

January and February were devoted to building the Global Pulse team and securing the services of UNOPs as the administrative agent for the project.  The United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) lent its expertise to Global Pulse to explore definitions of vulnerability across different disciplines.

In March Zazie Schafer Nencetti, the project’s Deputy Director on loan from UNDP, was joined by Robert Kirkpatrick as Project Director. He previously worked with the humanitarian technology NGO InSTEDD as Chief Technology Officer.  Robert worked alongside UN personnel in the field on several occasions, and he brings to the Global Pulse team expertise in designing technology for relief and development and experience building capacity for grassroots innovation at the country level. Alvin Tan and V-Khye Fan, two Harvard Kennedy School graduates, advised the project on how best to harness open innovation for the development of the Global Pulse platform.

April saw our Blue Sky Thinkers workshop in Bellagio, Italy, generously hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation and facilitated by the Meridian Institute.  We engaged a thoughtful, experienced and diverse group of experts from around the world to work though the implications of what we were undertaking and suggest an approach that would help us become operational. Their key recommendation: don’t try to build this system purely from the top down. To protect the vulnerable, you must empower them. 

May yielded a number of key developments.  We supported nine UN interagency research projects through our Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Analysis Fund (RIVAF) to explore innovative ways to collect real-time data and pilot new cross-sectoral analysis. We assembled an online, searchable library of more than 100 reports on the financial crisis.  UNDPI seconded Chris Van Der Walt as Strategic Communications Advisor, bringing the size of the team to four. Patrick Meier from Ushahidi compiled a study for us on lessons learned and best practices from existing early warning systems.

It was June when things really took off in terms of public visibility. The project was renamed “UN Global Pulse” (to positive reviews) at the creative suggestion of V-Khye, one of our Kennedy School researchers. Zago/Helsinki Group defined the look and feel of Global Pulse. We also launched our new open source Drupal website at http://unglobalpulse.org, and published the Secretary-General’s second "Voices of the Vulnerable" report on the impact of the global economic crisis.  We assembled a global inventory of mobile phone-based data collection projects and released our project roadmap for the next 18 months. The team expanded with Cassandra Hendricks joining as Project Associate and Matt Tilleard as the first in a series of very talented Australian interns.

July kicked off with our official launch party in a beautiful Soho penthouse, donated to us by OpenPlans. UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro keynoted the evening.  We spent most of the month developing our Pulse Labs strategy to explore how exactly to build in-country technical capacity for the project.  Another activity was the release of a report by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and UNICEF on the non-technical challenges that Global Pulse will face in the years ahead. Yasemin Gaziarifoglu, a PhD candidate at the Rutgers Center for Law and Justice, developed a set of recommendations for how to apply Risk Terrain Mapping to Global Pulse.

In August, in collaboration with MobileActive.Org, we completed a 5-country mobile phone-based survey of perceptions of the economic crisis.  Our team expanded, with Christopher Fabian joining us on a part-time basis from UNICEF’s Innovation Unit.

September was a big month for the growing team: we moved out of UN Headquarters into our new offices in Midtown.  We held our Summer Analytics Workshop at Pocantico Hills, generously hosted by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and again facilitated by the Meridian Insitute.  Makena Walker joined us as Partnerships Advisor on loan from WFP. Our second Australian volunteer, Sam Armstrong, joined the team, donating his time to Global Pulse for three months.  We also participated in UN Week’s Digital Media Lounge to discuss technology innovation and the MDGs. And we were delighted to find out that our 2009 "Voices of the Vulnerable" report, designed by WhatWorks, had won the American Graphic Design Award (http://www.gdusa.com/contests/agda/10/winners/types/brochures.php).

October was largely devoted to developing key partnerships and preparing for the G20 Summit in Korea. We also participated in this year’s CrisisMapping conference, ICCM2010.

In November Assistant Secretary-General Bob Orr, Robert and senior representatives from UNDP, UNICEF, and WFP gave a briefing to the UN General Assembly updating Member States on progress and seeking their guidance on the way forward. The Ugandan Mission to the UN expressed interest in hosting our first Pulse Lab in Kampala.  To explore how the project would be implemented in Uganda, we hired Gabriel White and Patrick Adengo to start working with in-country partners.  We held a tech salon with the local technology community to invite participation from Silicon Alley's best and brightest. The number of team members had reached 10, with three more in the pipeline.

December began with our inaugural Pulse Camp, with more than 100 participants from around the world working for three days to help us define requirements for -- and design the core architecture of -- the Global Pulse technology platform.  The event yielded results well beyond our expectations. At the end of Pulse Camp, we co-hosted a reception for Random Hacks of Kindness in New York, where Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed a mixed crowd of hackers, technology industry executives, and UN staff and discussed the common origins of open source software and participatory development. Eva Kaplan joined the team as Programme Specialist, one of two full-time secondments from UNICEF.

We would particularly like to express our gratitude to the Governments of Sweden, Uganda and the United Kingdom for their ongoing support. Our thanks also go to our generous hosts at the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund who made their beautiful and inspiring meeting facilities available to Global Pulse.
Throughout the year we received invaluable advice from our two technical advisors, Assistant Secretary-General Choi Soon-Hong, UN Chief Information Technology Officer, and Professor Paul Cheung, Director of the UN Statistics Division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

We are grateful to the partners with whom we collaborated in 2010 and we look forward to working with you in future.

Life Always Becoming Better

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