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A Decentralized application runs on a peer-to-peer (P2P) blockchain network rather than on a single computer. DApps are both stored and executed on a blockchain system commonly using Ethereum. The DApps Development Company in India makes it more transparent and decentralized. Decentralized applications (DApps) are smart contract-powered digital applications or programs that run on blockchains rather than centralized servers. Visit the company website to get more information about DApps. lbmblockchainsolutions.com/dapps
Woman farmer works at her farm in Salleri, Nepal. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded agricultural reform projects have improved women's participation in decision making about their farms and their lives.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Boy getting water from the community tap in Darbang, Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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In 2000, Peru’s government formalised Brazil nut harvesting under a system of concessions, where each producer, or castañero, has the right to collect nuts in a particular patch of forest. They can also remove a certain amount of wood per year, but some extract more than their quota.
A handful of shelled Brazil nuts, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.
For more on the lives of Brazil nut harvesters, see this video: www.blog.cifor.org/16627/snakes-thieves-and-falling-nuts-...
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Bugal Shrestha works in his vegetable farm in Thade, Nepal. The Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project was designed to reduce rural poverty and to increase access to economic opportunities and social services.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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In 2000, Peru’s government formalised Brazil nut harvesting under a system of concessions, where each producer, or castañero, has the right to collect nuts in a particular patch of forest. They can also remove a certain amount of wood per year, but some extract more than their quota.
A handful of shelled Brazil nuts, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.
For more on the lives of Brazil nut harvesters, see this video: www.blog.cifor.org/16627/snakes-thieves-and-falling-nuts-...
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Gambheera Khandel, a dairy and vegetable farmer, says that the road helped her business. These days, she takes her buffalo milk in metal containers to a small dairy just accross the road and trucks bear it to market, along with coffee beans and other produce that she has grown for sale.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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The Internet era has seen the rise of the ultimate grass roots citizen watchdog group; a totally decentralized unorganized group of anonymous people called "Anonymous"
The group developed online to engage in online dissent.
There are no leaders and anyone can self identify as "Anonymous" because the totally non-hierachical organization means whatever anyone who decides they are part of it says it does. For the most part, "Anonymous" is dedicated to positive societal change, although what that might mean is in the eye of the beholder. The United States Government has engaged in prosecutorial over-reach in its persecutorial prosecutions of individuals who have admitted participation in the group. Currently the young American journalist Barrett Brown is incarcerated because he was perceived to be the Anonymous spokesman.
"Anonymous" can be anyone from the peaceful protesters attending our Kitchener-Waterloo Stop Bill C-51 Day of Action to the Internet troll who tried to bully me (and threaten) me on g+ the other day (before I blocked it)
Serapio Condori Daza, Brazil nut harvester, weighing a sack of Brazil nuts with a Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD) student working/CIFOR, in Felicitas Ramirez Surco's concession, Madre de Dios, Peru.
The scientists are working on a study examining the impact of selective logging on Brazil nut production - for the full story see: Harvesting brazil nuts in Peru www.blog.cifor.org/16623/harvesting-both-timber-and-brazi...
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Farmers plant crops along the Baglung-Bartibang road.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Piles of oil palm fruit at a palm oil processing facility. This place was right next to the highway, to facilitate the passing buyer.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
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Grid supply in many developing countries is struggling to keep up with demand, resulting in unreliable and inadequate electricity service. Innovative solutions like decentralized renewable energy and energy efficiency can be integrated into traditional grid services to help solve the problem. Open, granular, and credible data on the quality of supply are key to catalyzing discussion about what actions can be taken, who will benefit from them, and how results of investments can be monitored.
The goal of this session is to share experiences with collecting data on the quality of supply and improving access to electricity along multiple dimensions.
Speakers:
Shantanu Dixit, Prayas Energy Group
Fabby Tumiwa, Institute for Essential Services Reform
Eco Matser, Energy Change Lab
Davida Wood, Senior Associate, Energy Access and Governance, World Resources Institute (chair)
Sunita Dubey, World Bank (discussant)
Learn more: www.wri.org/events/2017/04/wri-sustainable-energy-all-for...
Elderly passenger waiting for the bus to leave the bus terminal in Beni, Myagdi District, Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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My father Dr. Justin YAK Arop was the former Minister for SPLA Affairs and Special Adviser to President Salva Kiir of South Sudan for Decentralization. My father Dr. Justin YAK, my mother including other top Military officers and top government officials where on board when the plane crashed on Friday May 02, 2008. You can read more about the
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In 2000, Peru’s government formalised Brazil nut harvesting under a system of concessions, where each producer, or castañero, has the right to collect nuts in a particular patch of forest. They can also remove a certain amount of wood per year, but some extract more than their quota.
A handful of shelled Brazil nuts, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.
For more on the lives of Brazil nut harvesters, see this video: www.blog.cifor.org/16627/snakes-thieves-and-falling-nuts-...
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
You can buy my postcards in here or buy me a coffee!
Photo by Girl Travel Factor
Aerial view of the landscape around Halimun Salak National Park, West Java, Indonesia.
Photo by Kate Evans/CIFOR
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A mother and her child living near the Baglung-Bartibang road.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Landscapes of Gunung Halimun Salak National Park.
Photo by Terry Sunderland/CIFOR
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Women learning computer skills at the vocational training and rehabilitation Center in Haret Hreik. UNDP supported its establishment in partnership with the Swedish government in 2011 together with the Municipality of Haret Hreik. The primary objective of the training center is to alleviate unemployment and generate better income for the population of Beirut Southern Suburbs, a densely populated region comprising nearly 30% of the entire Lebanese population and confronting major socioeconomic challenges , the most adverse being unemployment and lack of job opportunities.
“Some 1,484 beneficiaries have received training since the centre was opened, of whom the majority are women,” said the center’s director Ali Mustafa. The center holds classes for women in agro-food processing, cooking, IT skills, crafts, and beauty, among other subjects, and there are other courses on electric installations and mobile maintenance that are tailored specifically for men. Each of these sixty-hour courses lasts for nearly three months.
Photo by Adam Rogers /UNDP
Children carrying dried straw on the Baglung-Bartibang road.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Ambulance crossing the bridge in Beni, Myagdi District, Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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A man working at a palm oil mill on the outskirts of town Doaula, Cameroon.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
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Two people working at a palm oil processing facility. This place was right next to the highway, to facilitate the passing buyer.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
Porter rests along the trek. Despite abundant water resources, access to water supply remains difficult with Nepal’s mountainous terrain especially for people living in remote rural areas and irrigation on farms can be extremely difficult.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Hellenic Air Force F-16 Demo Team “Zeus” during its flying demonstration in Athens Flying Week 2018.
The Aircraft is an F-16C Blk 52+ from 340 Squadron “Fox”, stationed in 115 Combat Wing in Souda Air Force Base.
Demo Pilot: Major (Air Force) Dimitrios Volakakis.
Locals riding a bus passing by the rural road in Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Standing Up, Speaking Out: Local Power and Women's Rights
(Jason Taylor, Rajasthan)
It was a policy born of a shining promise-that decentralized governments would help empower tens of millions of women in developing countries. But has shifting more power and resources to the local level really improved women’s lives? Has it resulted in more girls going to school, more pregnant women receiving a doctor’s care, more women owning the land they till, and more women playing their rightful role in all levels of government?
Promoted by many donor organizations, decentralization is intended to make government more effective and accountable by bringing it closer to the people. For women who have been excluded from political decision-making, decentralization theoretically allows them to challenge how resources are allocated in their communities, including services like basic health care, access to water and education.
For more information: www.idrc.ca/en/ev-142655-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Défendre ses droits ! Prendre la parole ! Les pouvoirs locaux et les droits des femmes
(Jason Taylor, Rajasthan)
On avait fondé beaucoup d’espoirs dans la décentralisation. En effet, on pensait qu’elle contribuerait à l’autonomisation de dizaines de millions de femmes dans les pays en développement. Mais le transfert de pouvoirs et de ressources à l’échelon local s’est-il réellement traduit par une amélioration de la condition des femmes ? Par un plus grand nombre de fillettes sur les bancs d’école, de femmes enceintes ayant accès à un suivi médical, de femmes possédant les terres qu’elles cultivent, de femmes qui jouent le rôle qui leur revient au sein des divers ordres de gouvernement ?
De nombreux bailleurs de fonds promeuvent la décentralisation, car elle est censée rendre le gouvernement plus efficace et plus responsable en le rapprochant de la population. Les femmes ayant été exclues de la prise de décision politique, la décentralisation devrait en théorie les aider à s’élever contre la façon dont la répartition des ressources se fait dans leur collectivité, notamment en ce qui concerne les besoins fondamentaux que sont l’accès à des services de santé de base, à l’eau et à l’éducation.
Pour plus de renseignements : www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-142655-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
The Unity Ingot Coin
The World of Finance and Investments is varying into a Decentralized Society
People are looking for extra places to stock their hard-earned grant and go to it through investments as they don't trust the status quo.
Taking a look at the relatively new world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies we look many similarities to that of customary investment platforms such as stocks, bonds, funds, insurance and more
But they are completely different, heres why
Most cryptocurrencies are developed from blockchain technology.
The blockchain is a peer-to-peer database that maintains a list of history called
Blocks. These blocks are similar by cryptography securing the data. The first block chain was conceptualized by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 as a key component of the digital currency Bitcoin where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions that individuals complete with Bitcoin
the opening of blockchain for Bitcoin inspired entrepreneurs and tech savvy people all
over the world to design crypto currencies and tokens for additional decentralized applications
we see these pioneering days of using cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology as a different nice of opportunity.
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Local jeep carrying passengers in Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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Tractor on the Kusum Sera road in Nepal.
Project Result:
Nepal: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) - Loan 2092 (2010)
Helping Women and Building Infrastructure in Nepal
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