If you would like to contact the Gates Keepers, send an email to Gates.Keepers.blog [at] gmail [dot] com.   more »

Would a Nieman fellow or former fellow directly criticise the Gates Foundation? Mason comes close.   more »

Winnipegonians are upset that the Gates Foundation didn't come through on it job creating project.   more »

It looks like twenty something Dana, despite thinking hard about it, has not made a successful transition from niche writing to mainstream media. Too bad she never reads comments on her work as she says she is too busy. Bill just toys with her here.   more »

The latest development tourism dispatch from Bill's late 2009 trip to the front lines.   more »

Did Cathy speak to a Gates Foundation Panel or a Gates Foundation-funded panel. Were Foundation people in the audience and listening?   more »

Whoever wrote this attached testimony for the Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to present to the Committee on Foreign Relations certainly knows their stuff. Some of these are the best thought-out words ever to come of out Bill's mouth.   more »

Here is what appears to be a rundown on Gates Foundation education activities that is not sponsored by the Gates Foundation. But who can say?   more »

Diane Ravitch crossing the floor probably says more about Ravitch than it does about education. If Ravitch can change her mind then what guarantee is there that the Gates Foundation is on the right track in education reform? What are the costs if they are wrong?   more »

Bill's new book review, had it been sent to the editor of a college newspaper, probably wouldn't have been published or worth reading. It is not very good. But since he didn't get an undergraduate degree we can't fault him for not knowing this. --- We need more serious thinking about responsibility and accountability and fewer book reviews on Gates Notes.   more »

Who ARE these people and why do they want to advertise to us to make us think the way they do? Is it possible that members of the cabal have financial interests involved? --- Does the Gates Foundation fund any Nieman activities?   more »

It is rare that we see Jeff's ideas though every time one of Bill's neuron's fires we read a webcast about it.   more »

Well those Southeast Asian lawmakers who earn billions a year from producing tobacco products are unlikely to just roll over and increase taxes to reduce consumption without a people's movement to push them. SEATCA will receive seven million dollars but doesn't look like a citizen participation organization to Gates Keepers.   more »

It appears that this commentator in Forbes has his tongue firmly in his cheek when he calls Bill Gates 'smart'.   more »

Tachi says he likes to give direct negative feedback so he will like Gates Keepers speaking straight: Gates Keepers thinks you acted unethically by threatening academic researchers. Restitution and amends are in order.   more »

The head of the Gates Foundation is clearly writing his own tweets. No one but a high school freshman or Bill Gates could write such a jejune statement. And what was he doing all those years at Microsoft that MS still has not produced software that can send us his picture so we can see what he calls beauty? This is the man who would rule the world.   more »

Yikes, Tachi. Threatening people is not polite. We hope you don't do that in your present job at the Gates Foundation.   more »

It will be interesting to see how the Gates Foundation deals with the corruption endemic to Bihar. And what will they do for security? Form their own private army?   more »

Next time Gates Keepers wants to publish an infomercial disguised as an oped in a newspaper we will be sure to go to a newspaper where we sit on the Board of Directors. That is what Melinda has done. Has this Gates Foundation board member no shame? Why didn't she send it to another paper where she doesn't sit on the board?   more »

Remember "640k ought to be enough for everybody"? Now he is predicting in the field of energy. --- The hive mind on MF takes him apart.   more »

Some people are angry at the Gates Foundation and CRS because of their relationship. Gates Keepers do not agree with them but they need to be heard, too.   more »

Here is fair comment on Gates-funded Chris Murray's salary of over four hundred thousand dollars a year.   more »

The head of the Gates Foundation just digs himself in deeper on climate change.   more »

No one but Bill appears to be writing his Twitter posts. No one but him could make a tweet so twerpy.   more »

After years of stifling innovation at Microsoft, why is it assumed that Bill Gates is competent to lead innovation worldwide?   more »

This is just speculation but valid ...   more »

Glasspockets has a tool for you to look at what they Gates Foundation says about itself. Check it out.   more »

This article is well written and the audio attached is interesting if you can stay awake through it. But why do we have to learn about changes or business as usual at the Foundation on the COP website? Why isn't it on the Gates Foundation website where everyone can read it? --- They still have a LONG way to go to become truly transparent.   more »

Here someone from the Center for Global Development (Is there any other kind of development?) is overly polite in making suggestions on how to leverage funds and then imagining that the Gates Foundation has already thought of them all. Is she being cute as she has already suggested them to the Foundation or careful as her organisation is a beneficiary of Gates Foundation largesse?   more »

If the Gates Foundation cares about the health and development of people in China then it could lobby Microsoft to make safer software.   more »

More worship of the Gates Foundation and it was not even published on a Sunday.   more »

Is mainstream media doing enough investigative journalism on the Gates Foundation? Here is a shining example of how mainstream media and professionals in civil society can complement one another in developing an analysis of the activities of the Foundation. Kristi Heim has referred her readers to Philippe Boucher's blog. These two Cascadians living and working near the Foundation give Gates Keepers hope.   more »

Bill Gates certainly knows about pipe dreams, distraction, and opportunity costs. But since when is he an expert on immunisation delivery?   more »

A Gates Foundation grantee uses the Huffpo to worship at the lotus feet of Bill and Melinda.   more »

Gates Keepers is back after summer vacs. --- Matthew displays just a glimpse of his opinion of Bill's hubris in this article. And he can see that whatever Bill's original jottings might have been, the Gates Foundation's well-paid machine has twisted, spun, massaged, and otherwise fixed Bill's text so that it resembles gospel rather than one man's thoughts. Beatification indeed.   more »

Radical voices are also being raised in protest at the Gates Foundation influence on education. Do the Gates' children attend a charter school?   more »

At least one person in Denver is talking about the Gates Foundation education grant.   more »

Good question --- read on.   more »

The "excellent Trevor", formerly of the Gates Foundation, and the Philanthrocapitalistoptimists have a love fest.   more »

Have any other PRIs been announced? This organization works with Starbucks and the Body Shop.   more »

The wunderkind Clinton(s)/Gore/Gates nominee Raj Shah takes on an impossible job. Watch for Gates Foundation influence to increase ...   more »

The Huffpo loves Bill. Here two cheerleaders come to his rescue. Are either of the authors just a little bit angry   more »

Here is a video of Rick Warren and Bill Gates. Impatient optimists both.   more »

Gates Foundation in China is hard to keep track of. Here is some AIDS money that appears to be going to AIDS care without catalysing change. Not everyone agrees with it, as you can see below.   more »

Amerika needs national learning objectives and this grant will allow the PTA to oppose teachers who don't like it.   more »

Hot air from Bill in this one.   more »

Gates Keepers applaud the courage and integrity of the Gates Foundation's hometown newspaper in continuing to publish dissenting news and views on the activities of the local Leviathan. Is the Foundation's mission statement really: "Technology can save the world." We don't see an alternative one on the Foundation website.   more »

Steve Rawley and many others in Portland are thinking and talking about Foundation influence, race, labor, and poverty in their schools   more »

Here is a view from Small Tobacco.   more »

Check out the graph in the original post.   more »

Gates Keepers think that the Gates "are unaccountable and lack legitimacy."   more »

The Gates Keepers think that Sam is making fun of Bill. But they are not sure.   more »

Will he?   more »

Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa Bay should serve better food so the Gates will come.   more »

Now you can help Oxfam spend Gates Foundation money. Oxfam used to spend only their own funds but now they spend others' too.   more »

A small voice from Whoville.   more »

This blogger puts it all together.   more »

Rice is nice. But what do Midwestern corn and hog farmers know about it? Find out here.   more »

Way to go, Chang Kun.   more »

This almost looks like a real blog. But the Gates Foundation pays for it.   more »

Why is 'training' for journalists always issue-based? AIDS, agriculture, etc. The Gates Foundation wants to advance its own agenda. Why not fund an panAfrican school of journalism? Or five or six regional African schools of journalism? Africans can run their own schools of journalism.   more »

Are the activities funded by the Gates Foundation or just the techno-optimist book? --- Are Duncan Green and Philanthro-optimist Michael Green related by blood or only by ideology?   more »

Here a journalist looks carefully at the Gates Foundation-supported AGRA.   more »

Even Holden, who one guesses is no farmer, wonders about the Gates Foundation experiments in agriculture in Africa.   more »

These people have a right to be angry. "Gates Foundation rhetoric makes Africa sound like a basket case, land-wise: references to “depleted” or “degraded” soils." Right.   more »

Is Jeff Raikes really in charge? Who knows? --- "Accusations that the foundation is overly influential, unaccountable, and arrogant are similar to the complaints that Microsoft weathered for decades as it dominated techdom". Who is surprised?   more »

Do not miss this excellent blog on tobacco control and the Gates Foundation's smoky backroom dealings with the Canadian International Research Centre.   more »

“Gates has created a huge blood-buying operation that only cares about money, not about people,”. Ouch.   more »

Something funny is going on with Tony Blair and the Gates Foundation --   more »

When programs are begun without governmental implementation in mind, they are hard to hand over.   more »

This article does not, unfortunately, give us a feeling for who Martha Choe really is and what her values are.   more »

It is good to see people calling GAVI to account. What a treat to have the usually conservative, big business-linked and Gates Foundation-funded Save the Children make this call.   more »

If you want to look at what the Foundation and other players have wrought in Seattle then please pay a visit to Seattle Education 2010. Mark Kingwell says citizenship includes the sense of public commitment and public good but redefines it as an ethical commitment of care and respect, which fosters justice among people and a sense of belonging. These bloggers get it.   more »

Clever and apt headline to this analysis.   more »

The Gates Foundation new headquarters and philanthropy theme park gets noticed. How many little children's equally valued lives will be lost because of the (lost opportunity) costs of the building? Bill and Melinda are not even dead yet and they are building edifices in their honour ---   more »

Buy in. Half a billion dollars to school efforts ...   more »

From reading Bill and Melinda's thoughts on family planning you would think they only cared about WHY women would want smaller families (they say because their children don't die) and that they didn't care any longer about HOW women can reduce the number of children they have (family planning). But the Foundation just funded one of the largest family conferences on family planning in years ... read on.   more »

There has been a lot recently written about the new USAID administrator. You can search his name on the Gates Keepers site to see previous notes about him. Gates Keepers are sceptical about how much Wunderkind like Bill Gates and Rajiv Shah can accomplish outside their carefully controlled environments. Raj seems to not understand how any actions he takes can cause hostility. --- Even selfstyled wunderkind Holden looks at Rajiv's department's data and finds a bit of playing with the truth.   more »

Bill must be really, really, mad to use the word "outrageous" about bednet production in Africa. But is this news or an informercial? Look at the last line of this interview transcript. The Gates Foundation paid NPR to do this interview.   more »

There is a media blitz being conducted by the Gates Foundation these days. Lest we forget about Bill Gates on November 11, you can see one of his most prolific fans talk with him in New York. Bill would autograph books at this event but he has not 'written' one in a decade. Though you can bet Matthew will be flogging his new edition.   more »

Praise the Lord, Bill didn't call people up to the stage to be saved. And Melissa struck this author as "a real evangelist". Too bad truth sometimes gets in the way.   more »

A corporate communication person is just what the Gates Foundation needs to lead their corporate communications. Why communicate with communities anyway? And hey, isn't Glaxo Smith Kline Tachi Yamada's old outfit?   more »

Only three times in two and a half years have the Gates Keepers heard a complaint about copyright violation. --- Thanks for the note!   more »

This is frightening. One billion ideas in China and Mr Chen has to fix on this one.   more »

What are the boffins and wonks and publicists at the Gates Foundation not listening or do they think they are so important they don't need to respond to this argument?   more »

Don't look for leadership on a Green Revolution in Africa here.   more »

Ban breakfasted at the Gates' on the weekend and this interview followed. ---   more »

The first line says it all: "The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates." Not all journalists are so honest.   more »

Even students can see the problems with the Gates Foundation hunger strategy ---   more »

Some good humour coming from Forbes. The choice of Kofi Annan as 'incomprehensible" is one.   more »

Is there really no media strategy for the domestic American program at the Gates Foundation. GKs don't think so. Why did Greg say this?   more »

Monday the papers were all asplash with announcements that there would be a Chinese copy of the Gates Foundation. Now it appears that the celebration might have been premature. Perhaps New Huadu is a perfect imitator, as Microsoft also engaged in illegal activities before the Gates Foundation emerged.   more »

Gates Keepers thinks there will be no Gates Foundation grants for Reganold or Herren forthcoming. --- Isn't it governance that is lacking for the Green Revolution in Africa? Does blaming people who question genetically modified plants help? Heim is asking the right questions of the right people. Is the Foundation listening?   more »

Can Jeff Raikes' foundation expect a big gift when he leaves the Gates Foundation?   more »

If this is how the Gates Foundation tries to support innovation in China it is not trying very hard. China has lots of new tech talent educated in the US. If the environment is right in the next twenty years there will be lots of innovation. But are small timebound grants the way to support it?   more »

Did the Foundation also make a donation?   more »

At least one eight hundred pound gorilla representative sees humour in his invitation to this meeting. Doug Lederman took good notes.   more »

Kavita Ramdas is outspoken in her antiwar activities but is she outspoken while serving on a Gates Foundation program advisory panel? Who knows?   more »

This is frightening. She tries to simplify media development and media for development but in the end it all sounds manipulative ... like our strings are being pulled by the Gates Foundation.   more »

PSI, Pepfar, and the Gates Foundation are three organisations that love to quantify results. They are sure to have set easily-quantifiable targets. What happens if Litsembe Letfu doesn't meet its targets? Will there be coercion?   more »