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Five years ago I was privileged to start and build up an humanitarian and social organisation called Caritas Sibolga . It has become a strong local NGO with international network (long term MoU with some international partners). In the first five years of its existence Caritas Sibolga implemented programmes with the value of 6 million Euro. Although it didn't hired the best professionals and consultants, Caritas Sibolga demonstrated the ability to design and implement big scale programmes with local staff, which could compete in quality with that of big INGOs. What was the key to this success? Let find out in an article  Kunci Kesuksesan Caritas Sibolga  I published on my Indonesian blog. * The author was Programme Manager and Deputy Director of Caritas Sibolga from 2005 to 2009. During his professional work in Caritas Sibolga he has developed implemented 22 projects with the support of donors from different countries (among them Caritas Italy , Secours catholique , Caritas Au

For those who try to stand outside the commercialisation trend of our world, it is amazing to see what the community of open source software   and free software movement could do. Many people work together and contribute to a better software without the main concern for profit. One of them is xda developers . They and the others show us that there is a world of humanity beyond the commercialised world. I just realised this when I was trying the work of the community around Android , which has modified the look of my Nexus One to be like iPhone. As an iPhone 3GS owner I can say that this one is even better than the iPhone. Why? Read more