What is it?

S4G, the un-mediated, not moderated social platform

Have you ever thought you have something to “express” with a social dimension but never had the opportunity to do it?

Then S4G is what you are looking for:

  • Open, unrestricted and easy to use
  • Three mediums to choose from: TEXT, VIDEO, PHOTO
  • A way to express your ideas, reflections and expertise, on social issues and broader development and society at large
  • You do not need to be an expert but just passionate about what you share

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Call for Entries: Film Southasia 2015 [Crowdsourcing Announcement]
By: Veneeta Singha
29 January, 2015
CAN Info-Tech 2015 @ Bhrikuti Mandap [Event Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
29 January, 2015
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World by Kishore Mahbubani [Book Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
29 January, 2015
Code to Learn Foundation [Coding Advocacy + Announcement]
By: Veneeta Singha
29 January, 2015
WhatWorks: Urban Innovations That Work | New Cities Foundation [Crowdsourcing Announcement]
By: Veneeta Singha
28 January, 2015
Reminiscences of an ancient town: KHOKANA | Veneeta Singha
By: Veneeta Singha
28 January, 2015
CITIZENFOUR: Directed by Laura Poitras [Documentary Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
28 January, 2015
Knowledge, Power and Inequality: Why I Wrote The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering
By: Martin Punaks
27 January, 2015
#SocialUN: UN Social Media Day - January 30 [Event Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
27 January, 2015
Future of Work Podcast | Jacob Morgan [Podcast Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
27 January, 2015
Phul Kumari Mahato Memorial Hospital: A Partnership in Community Building
By: Michael Rosenkrantz
27 January, 2015
Rethinking International Volunteering (Part II): Interview with Claire Bennett, Major Trends on International Volunteerism
By: Simone Galimberti
27 January, 2015
The Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood [Book Retrospective]
By: Veneeta Singha
26 January, 2015
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil [Book Recommendation]
By: Veneeta Singha
26 January, 2015
MAN, WOMAN AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: SEXUAL MINORITIES AND THE HINDU RELIGION
By: Pragya Mishra
25 January, 2015
Education, the right of every child
By: Aishworya Shrestha
25 January, 2015
Transforming cities for sustainability | SciDev.net [Spotlight Series Announcement]
By: Veneeta Singha
25 January, 2015
Connecting the World
By: Michael Rosenkrantz
25 January, 2015
The Sacrament of the Goddess by Joe Niemczura [New Book Alert]
By: Veneeta Singha
25 January, 2015
Promoting Volunteerism in SAARC
By: Simone Galimberti
25 January, 2015
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Call for Entries: Film Southasia 2015 [Crowdsourcing Announcement]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 29Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
Film Southasia 2015 is Calling for Entries. This year, the Festival will take place between the 19-22 of November. 
 
FSA Regulations can be found here: www.filmsouthasia.org/regulations
Submission forms can be found here:www.filmsouthasia.org/submit
 
If you have any questions or queries, please email fsa@filmsouthasia.org
 
 

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CAN Info-Tech 2015 @ Bhrikuti Mandap [Event Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 29Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Computer Association of Nepal Info-Tech Exhibition at Bhrikuti Mandap in Kathmandu 

January 28 - February 2, 2015 

More at: http://caninfotech.org.np

 

 

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The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World by Kishore Mahbubani [Book Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 29Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY
BETTER AID
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
"The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the most perceptive global commentators, also warns that a new global order needs new policies and attitudes.
 

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Code to Learn Foundation [Coding Advocacy + Announcement]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 29Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
Education
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Code to Learn Foundation Mission 
 

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WhatWorks: Urban Innovations That Work | New Cities Foundation [Crowdsourcing Announcement]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 28Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
"WhatWorks is our global community of urban innovators. | New Cities Foundation
 
We build the WhatWorks community each year by selecting between 10-12 innovators to showcase their projects at the New Cities Summit. Each one has 6 minutes to tell the story behind the urban innovation they have launched to transform their cities and tackle some of the greatest urban challenges of our time. Throughout the year, we engage with the WhatWorks community to ensure that their urban innovation projects develop and inspire others to innovate.
 

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Reminiscences of an ancient town: KHOKANA | Veneeta Singha

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 28Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
A Yatra brought us to an ancient town. It took us to a modern paradigm. It offered us values and sights that are nothing less than life-affirming. The Yatra is a key basis for the Nepali way of life. Does Khokana remember us today, the yatris?
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CITIZENFOUR: Directed by Laura Poitras [Documentary Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 28Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
"CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013."
 

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Knowledge, Power and Inequality: Why I Wrote The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering

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Submitted by Martin Punaks 27Jan
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Child Protection
Promotion of volunteerism based society
BETTER AID
SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
Venture Philantropism and Philantropy
Martin Punaks - the Country Director for Next Generation Nepal - explains why he decided to document the links between orphanage voluntourism and child trafficking. He reflects on his own experiences of voluntourism and how this influenced his motives for writing his report, The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering.

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#SocialUN: UN Social Media Day - January 30 [Event Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 27Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY
BETTER AID
SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
'The first “UN Social Media Day” will take place at UN Headquarters on Friday 30 January 2015. All are invited to join the conversation online by using the hashtag of the day: #SocialUN! The event aims to provide participants with new knowledge and inspiration, as well as acting as a working guide to the exciting – and sometimes challenging – social media environment.
 

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Future of Work Podcast | Jacob Morgan [Podcast Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 27Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Corporate Social Responsability and Corporate Citizenship

'Each episode of the Future of Work Podcast will tackle a specific theme or idea related to the future of work such as big data, collaboration, management, flexible work, globalization, the internet of things, and much more. An expert guest will also provide their ideas and advice on the topic we cover. Why is the world of work changing? How is work changing? What do you need to do about it? Listen to the Future of Work Podcast to find out!'

 

More at: www.thefutureorganization.com/future-work-podcast/

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Phul Kumari Mahato Memorial Hospital: A Partnership in Community Building

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 27Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
I've worked at PKMMH for eight months. This is what we are doing.
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Rethinking International Volunteering (Part II): Interview with Claire Bennett, Major Trends on International Volunteerism

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jan
Claire Bennett, Co-Founder, Learning Service and Co-Author of Re-Thinking International Volunteering, an upcoming book that will offer a paradigm shift in the way we think about volunteeering overseas. In this second part of the interview, Claire focuses on major trends related to the subject from the rise of short term volunteerism, the influence of internet and payment based volunteering.

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The Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood [Book Retrospective]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 26Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE

 

"Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, “Moral Disorder“, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, “Alias Grace“. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game." 
 
 
 

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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil [Book Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 26Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
 
"Shuklaji Street, in late 1970s Old Bombay. In Rashid’s opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. Here, people say that you introduce only your worst enemy to opium…"
 
 
 
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MAN, WOMAN AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: SEXUAL MINORITIES AND THE HINDU RELIGION

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Submitted by Pragya Mishra 25Jan
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Inclusive Gender ( also LGBT issues)
The Hindu fundamentalist often state that homosexuality and other sexual minorities are against the Hindu religion and culture. Is it?
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Education, the right of every child

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Submitted by Aishworya Shrestha 25Jan
Categories: 
Education

Dr. William Ellery Channing, a well known writer said that "it is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state". Indeed it is true that to educate a child is becoming a great challenge in Nepal.

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Transforming cities for sustainability | SciDev.net [Spotlight Series Announcement]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 25Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

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Connecting the World

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 25Jan
Mark Zuckerburg and internet.org have a plan to connect the world. Imagine.
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The Sacrament of the Goddess by Joe Niemczura [New Book Alert]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 25Jan
Categories: 
SOCIETY AT LARGE

"The Sacrament of the Goddess is a work of fiction set in Nepal around the time of the civil war. It is set in a hospital in rural Nepal run by Christian Missionaries,  which has seen better days. There is only one missionary doctor left, and she is part of a team of Nepali and Indian doctors. The book follows a young American surgeon who joins them. It turns out that he has a  past connection with the hospital, including a steamy relationship with a Nepali woman when he was there ten years before. She seems to have disappeared."

 

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Promoting Volunteerism in SAARC

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 25Jan
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Volunteering Management
Can volunteerism push forward the regional integration process? What's about the idea of a SAARC Volunteering Corp program? And the idea of having a regional network of organization in South Asia promoting volunteerism and pushing for more cooperation in the sector? This article was published first on the The Kathmandu Post on 18th of January, 2015 under the title 'For One Another"

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