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

Latest Sharings

ONE GIRL [Documentary Announcement]

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'ONE GIRL is a documentary that follows five teenage girls from different countries to show the juxtaposition in their daily lives.  We see their schools, their daily chores, how they play and how they interact with their world. When an ordinary day becomes a running commentary of our times. One day, five girls, a million dreams!'
 
 
 
 

The World In 2015 Digital Editions| The Economist [App Recommendation]

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'Published every November for the last 29 years ago The World In is The Economist's annual collection of predictions that identify and explore the issues that shape the year ahead. Each year journalists from The Economist join luminaries from the worlds of politics, business, science and the arts in offering their forecasts on what lies ahead.'

www.theworldin.com/editors-picks

The SAARC and the Process of Regional Cooperation: An Interview with Gauri Khandekar, FRIDE

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Gauri Khandekar, is the Head of Programme-Agora Asia-Europe at FRIDE, a European Think Tank for Global Action, one of the leading worldwide research center in international relations . Gauri was in Kathmandu for the recent SAARC meeting. After almost two months, here we have some reflections about the current status of South Asian regional integration with some reference to current EU affairs.

Cities of Service Alliance: how harnessing the power of volunteers to solve the cities’ problem.

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The Cities of Service is an innovative network of cities, small and big, promoting, together the power of volunteerism in the USA. The alliance shows also how philanthropic work can go together with the work of public administration. I would call this the best example of good governance. Right now 202 cities are part of it. When philanthropic money can work magic, Nashville shows the example.

Changing Our Thought Patterns

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Taking into account a variety of ways of thinking to creatively resolve issues

Threat to South Asia... India-Pakistan Nuclear Weapons

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Nuclear weapons might make them super power in the international politics however it gives a huge threat to the entire South Asia. Distinctly these nuclear nations (India and Pakistan) probably have strong influence in power sharing game in international politics however simply the presence of nuclear bomb in the region itself is a huge threat for the regional peace.

Kantipur Diary News Podcast | Radio Kantipur [Podcast Recommendation]

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Kantipur Diary News Podcast | Radio Kantipur 
 
Radio Kantipur is one of the leading private FM radio stations in Nepal. Radio kantipur has the largest operating network which covers 59 districts and its surrounding areas. It has transmission through Bhedetar, Birgunj, Bhairahawa, Chitwan, Butwal, Pokhara, Nepalgunj, & Dhangadi relay stations while Pulchowk, Lalitpur is the main station. Radio kantipur is a 24-hour airing infotainment radio channel.
 

New Internationalist Global Voices Fund: Making global voices heard [Crowdfunding Announcement]

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New Internationalist Global Voices Fund: Making global voices heard
 
"New Internationalist believes the voices and issues of the poorest and most marginalized people are increasingly going unheard. Our Global Voices Fund enables us to actively seek out and support grassroots activists, bloggers and writers in the global south, making sure their stories are heard across the world and help influence change.
 
Please make a donation.
 

ENGAGE Newsletter for November and December 2014

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015 to all with ENGAGE latest Newsletter

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Art Lectures with Dr. Norbert Schmitz and Regina Hofer [Event Recommendation]

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Art Lectures with Dr. Norbert Schmitz and Regina Hofer
 
Find out the paradoxical requirements of globalization, including the historicity of art terminology and its Eurocentric projection for South Asian countries and its contemporary art on Thursday, 8 January; Time: 4:30 PM; Venue: Himalayan Bank Auditorium, Kamaladi.
 

Few Ideas for Action: A Short Essay on Voluntourism and Orphanage Volunteering

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Next Generation Nepal, NGN an international organization working in the field of child protection, recently released “The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering”, a landmark study on the impact of international volunteering within children institutions in Nepal. Hopefully the Report will help kick out a national conversation on a particular sensitive.

NEPAL 1975 – 2011: An illustrated talk by KEVIN BUBRISKI

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'Photographer Kevin Bubriski has been visually documenting the country and people of Nepal since his first visit in 1975. Sent as a young Peace Corps volunteer to the northwest Karnali Zone, the country’s remotest and most economically depressed region, he spent three years walking the length and breadth of the Karnali, planning and overseeing construction of gravity flow drinking water pipelines. He also photographed the local villagers, producing an extraordinary series of 35mm and large format black & white images.

Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis by Cheryl Colopy [Book Recommendation]

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"Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population.

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