The Conversations Network is a non-profit online publisher of recorded lectures, conversations and interviews that include a wealth of worldchanging topics. Its earliest channel, IT Conversations, founded by Doug Kaye in 2003, focuses on developments in technology and the innovators behind those advancements. Among other things, IT Conversations broadcast last year's inspiring SXSW keynote address by Alex Steffen and Bruce Sterling.

Now partnered with the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Conversations Network just launched a new podcasting channel dedicated to topics like corporate citizenship, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, international development and disaster relief. Social Innovation Conversations already boasts a great collection of worldchanging interviewees and affiliates, including our own Ethan Zuckerman (part of the Globeshakers series) and Worldchanging book contributing author, David Bornstein. You can subscribe to Social Innovations Conversations on your RSS feed. Grab your portable audio player and tune in.

Thanks, Corinna!

Beginning next week, the BBC will begin running a series of articles, images and interactive features on the topic of rapid urbanization. They are soliciting contributions from readers of images that depict "before and after" scenarios in places that have undergone urban transformation. Article here.

Thanks, Tim!

Most of us never see torture victims, child soldiers or refugees. They exist, but they are hidden by distance (and the gap between rich and poor).

Amnesty International's Swiss section has hit upon a powerful tactic for changing that. By employing transparent ads featuring photos of human rights abuses (captioned "Not Here but Now" in Switzerland's three main languages) they're pulling away the veil of distance. The campaign aims to remind people that human rights violations are not some figment of the distant past, but are a part of our world, today -- that right at this very moment, someone is suffering treatment we abhor, even if it isn't happening in front of our eyes.

It's sort of a humanitarian version of making visible the invisible.

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