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Seeing the United Arab Emirates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Summit pulled together experts on roughly seventy different topics to discuss the current and future state of major issue areas: areas as varied as water, mining, nanotechnology, governance, economic development, economic meltdown (kidding) and so on. I went to Dubai for the first ever Summit on the Global Agenda.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

UAE residents also have one of the largest ecological footprints on our planet. What’s different about Picky Polly from other “consumption + competition&# tools people may have used before on facebook or elsewhere? Government policy: Rewarding citizens for their behavioral changes and better regulating toxic products.

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