Entries Tagged as 'Bill Gates'
16 March 2008 · Comments Off
I’m in the midst of a rather busy/chaotic time at the day job, and so I’ve let my reading pile accumulate to frightening proportions.
One article I should have commented on this past week was a New York Times blurb on testimony Bill Gates gave Congress:
More investment in math and science education and a more liberal policy toward skilled foreign workers are crucial if America is to avoid losing its competitive edge, a founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, told Congress on Wednesday.
The shortage of scientists and engineers is so acute, Mr. Gates said, that “we must do both: reform our education system and our immigration policies.”
“If we don’t, American companies simply will not have the talent to innovate and compete,” he said in testimony to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment.
An environment where our economy is dragging is hardly the time to continue disincenting the development of our own intellectual and future technological skill pool.
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Immigration · Bill Gates · H-1B Visas
10 December 2007 · Comments Off
Seen in an International Labor Organization press release:
The US $34 million Gates Foundation grant will help create the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, a one-of-a-kind, five-year initiative that will provide grants and technical assistance to dozens of organizations serving the poor. Over the course of the next three years, the facility will issue bi-annual requests for proposals and provide funding to pilot new insurance products, improve efficiency in the field, and use technology to create new products that better meet people’s needs. The facility will also train technical specialists to help replicate successful models.[...]
More specifically, the new Microinsurance Innovation Facility will provide grants and technical assistance to support the development of valuable insurance products for low-income and rural households; encourage the emergence of institutional models and partnerships that effectively deliver insurance to large volumes of low-income women and men; and promote market education to help low-income consumers appreciate the utility of insurance and identify high value products.
Now that is a cool idea.
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Insurance · Bill Gates · Microinsurance
