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GLOBAL: Tomorrow's Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation - Overview
At present, 3.3 billion people live in urban centres across the globe. By 2030 this number is predicted to reach five billion, with 95 percent of this growth in developing countries. Over the next three decades, Asia’s urban population will double from 1.36 billion to 2.64 billion, Africa’s city dwellers will more than double from 294 million to 742 million, while Latin America and the Caribbean will see a slower rise from about 400 million to 600 million, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
While megacities appear more frequently in headlines and on development agendas, overall growth in urban centres of 10 million or more inhabitants is expected to level out. Instead, over the next 10 years, cities of less than 500,000 will account for half of all urban growth.

The Mission of the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation (VRF) is to improve the health care of children in the Russian Federation and other Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The work of the VRF encompasses four major areas:
* Creation of sustainable public health programs that focus on prevention through modern immunization
* Clinical research into common serious infectious diseases of childhood
* HIV/AIDS in children* Social rehabilitation of neglected and disaffected children and youth. The VRF was founded in 1991 by Maestro Rostropovich , the world-renowned Russian cellist, and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya , to improve the deplorable state of children's health care in Russia and other Newly Independent States formerly part of the Soviet Union

Netcraft
Research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet.
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. Netcraft is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
* Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.

Kore Kalibre has created a unique and interactive community of innovators comprised of managers, executives, investors, thinkers and founders to improve the odds of success in our fast-changing world. Kore Kalibre is a media and information services firm dedicated to building a community for innovation and the necessary resources. In Trendopedia you can observe patterns of change. In the Marketplace you can buy or sell information, licenses and research result. In our Directory you can find collaborators and know your value chain firms. You can subscribe to our Innovate magazine – the only magazine that illustrates how architects of our future think, decide, and act creating results that really become their epitome of success.

Emily Chang is an award-winning web and interaction designer, technology strategist and co-founder of Ideacodes, a leading web consultancy in San Francisco that she started with long-time partner, Max Kiesler.
She writes about web and user experience design, technology, and next generation web at EmilyChang.com, and is the creator of the popular web 2.0 resource, eHub and eHub Interviews (including the translated eHub Channel at CNET Japan). She's also the co-creator of Twitterverse.com, a word and tag mashup based on Twitter's public messages. Most recently, Emily launched PicoCool, "a new site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Cool content from real people." PicoCool is the first site of its kind to focus on the content being created by people on social networks and through peer media.