View Article  Gates Keepers - civil society voices on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
If you would like to contact the Gates Keepers, send an email to Gates.Keepers.blog [at] gmail [dot] com.   more »
View Article  Gates Foundation Twitter use is one way broadcasting of 'information'
This posting and Twittermap was nearly lost in the blogosphere. You can see the map demonstrating that Gates Foundation social media'tweets on global health are just broadcasting - to America. Is this global health? It looks like US advertising.   more »
View Article  Long video interview with Bill of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Here is a long WSJ vid of Bill. He has been well briefed in advance of the release of his annual letter trying to explain the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  Why is there no Gates Foundation investment in a hepatitis C vaccine?
With all the self-backpatting about immunisation, why is there no Gates Foundation investment in a hepatitis C vaccine?   more »
View Article  Take a peek at Tech Rights about the Gates Foundation
It is good to take a peek at techrights when a new posting comes out.   more »
View Article  Does the Gates Foundation emulate the Coca Cola company?
Melinda uses Coca Cola as an example of how health products can be made available everywhere. Do they welcome dictators in the new headquarters of the Gates Foundation like they do at Coca Cola?   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation gives to Tony Blair but his accounting is poor
"Blair has been criticised for the way his private and philanthropic activities have appeared to merge."   more »
View Article  Third World Theme Park at the Gates Foundation
The Third World theme park, with custom maps and photographs of charming faces, is about to open at Gates Foundation headquarters.   more »
View Article  The public subsidises the Gates Foundation
Someone has to pay for all those staffers.   more »
View Article  Two critical analyses of the Gates Foundation and education
Worth reading ...   more »
View Article  Will the Gates Foundation take the blame when polio returns to India?
Polio will probably return to India. Who will take the blame then? The same people getting the congratulations now? The Gates Foundation?   more »
View Article  Don't miss this book with questions to the Gates Foundation
Don't miss this book by one of the unflagging watchdogs on to the Gates Foundation: HONEST FEEDBACK Questions to the Gates Foundation by Philippe Boucher.   more »
View Article  Melinda and Nick go walkabout in Bangladesh
Melinda's minders have written slightly convoluted but otherwise clear answers to the questions that were sent in to her at the NYT. And she has added the local color by ensuring that she gave concrete examples of what she saw in the last few days. That is a formula for success in development communication.   more »
View Article  Richard Horton gets on the case of the Gates Foundation
Horton labels the quiet Aureos investment by the Gates Foundation 'philanthrocapitalism gone mad'. Can Chris Elias fix this?   more »
View Article  Oped in the WaPo about the hidden costs of the Gates Foundation and others
The GKs love the last para: "Billionaire philanthropy is powerful. It goes beyond quaint notions of “doing good.” But it is clear that we need checks and balances on this power. That’s the only way to stop good intentions from turning the United States — and the world — into a plutocracy."   more »
View Article  Inside Fortress Bill on the BBC
You have just a few days left to listen to a BBC radio broadcast on the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation is not giving a bribe of a quarter of a million dollars to the Chief Minister of India's most corrupt state
This is not a bribe. Repeat. This is not a bribe. The Gates Foundation is not giving a bribe of a quarter of a million dollars cash to the Chief Minister of India's most corrupt state.   more »
View Article  An example of action on transparency needed at the Gates Foundation
Here is a blurry video with a question and answer session on Gates Foundation agriculture policy. This is an example of action on transparency many say is missing from the Foundation.   more »
View Article  Felix Salmon takes on tax deductions and the Gates Foundation
A view from a Reuters person.   more »
View Article  Timothy Ogden goes positive on the Gates Foundation
Timothy Ogden softens his critical analysis of recent polite discussions about the Gates Foundation with this sugar-coated pill for the end of the year.   more »
View Article  An analysis of the new philanthropies and health
Here is a thorough analysis. The Gates Foundation is in it.   more »
View Article  The Nation takes on education 'reform' driven by the likes of the Gates Foundation
The Gates Keepers almost missed this article in The Nation. Did you?   more »
View Article  Seven million dollars from the Gates Foundation improves knowledge
Knowledge is only one small first step to acquiring power. Though a few of these villagers may now have 'knowledge', they still live in a caste-constrained, landlocked country with few natural resources and no functioning government.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation is drooling over the Khan 'Academy'
Why is no one talking about quality assurance at the Khan Academy? Fact-checking? Is Salman really a member of an 'academy' or is he just a rogue information condenser? What if he is wrong? Who would correct him?   more »
View Article  Why is the Gates Foundation supporting this trial of a rubbish AIDS drug?
Good question. MSF is asking, too.   more »
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View Article  Censorship and the Gates Foundation
Interesting censoring going on ...   more »
View Article  Death and outmigration of seropositive sex workers can explain the decrease in the percentage of sex workers infected in a Gates-funded area
Death and outmigration of seropositive sex workers are the simplest two explanations for a decrease in the percentage of sex workers infected in this brothel area. Condom use is another. Was this mentioned to the Gates Foundation?   more »
View Article  Principals will not get with the Gates Foundation programme
There are some brave principals with principles who will not get with the Gates Foundation programme.   more »
View Article  Comedy Monday and the Gates Foundation
There is an attempt at humour here.   more »
View Article  A video in which a relatively high profile philanthropist disagrees with the Gates Foundation
It is not just the 99% who sometimes disagree with the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  Who will approve projects when the Chairs of the Gates Foundation are down there?
Celebrities are always of interest down under.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation and nuclear power in China
See if you can see through the tabloid style to see the substance in this article on the Gates Foundation and nuclear power in China.   more »
View Article  A chair of the Gates Foundation gives interviews in December
It must be December. Melinda gives interviews in the giving season. He we learn that the fawning journalist believes that: "This year, the foundation discovered a malaria vaccine that is 30 per cent effective." The Gates Foundation can do away with all the scientists in the world. They make the discoveries themselves.   more »
View Article  Gates Foundation makes a grant to a right wing lobby group
We need more Gates Keepers like this ...   more »
View Article  A panel on the Gates Foundation at the Hudson Institute
This is a must see video. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18970449   more »
View Article  The man behind Bill Gates' recent report to the G20
Here is an interview with the man who acted as a parent by standing behind Bill Gates when he wrote his recent report to the G20 in Cannes. Do people really believe that Bill wrote the report by himself? Does Sarkozy?   more »
View Article  Sarah Bosely gives a shout out to her funder, the Gates Foundation
Sarah Bosely was a respected journalist before she was bankrolled by the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  New President for Global Development at the Gates Foundation
Health has lost a leader. Has global development gained one?   more »
View Article  Poor choice of site for the Gates Foundation foray into Zimbabwe
What is the Gates Foundation doing in Zimbabwe anyway?   more »
View Article  Does the Gates Foundation fund Koch's climate lies?
Does the Gates Foundation also sponsor this Tea Party stuff?   more »
View Article  Melinda Gates talks about the Gates Foundation role in family planning
Melinda has made a talking head video in which she states that the Gates Foundation's only substantial support for family planning is in advocacy. The teleprompter moves quickly.   more »
View Article  Swell biking to work at the Gates Foundation
Gee this is swell, Heidi. But ... how are you going to keep your Gates advertising and your HuffPo articles separate. Or are they both part of your new remit?   more »
View Article  The NYT has a political reporter look at the Gates Foundation
This NYT politics reporter gets it wrong. He writes: "Of course, depending on the beholder, such philanthropy can seem either extraordinarily benevolent or extraordinarily undemocratic."   more »
View Article  Optimist chat at the Gates Foundation
Charles Kenny, optimist extraordinaire, has conducted a mini-interview with the Gates. One wonders whether it was an oral one or a written one.   more »
View Article  Vietnam's Communist Party youth newspaper follows the Party line about the Gates Foundation
No Vietnamese farmers have time to go on line. And there are inexpensive internet cafes everywhere in the country. The market works. But the Gates Foundation has thrown fifty million dollars down the drain in trying to distort the market. Sound familiar?   more »
View Article  Thanks to Tom Paulson for an analysis of the 'communication problems' at the Gates Foundation
Thanks, Tom, for this tongue in cheek analysis of the Gates Foundation 'communication' problems.   more »
View Article  A thought on pharmaceutical development and the Gates Foundation
Here is a thought for the Gates Foundation. Does Bill want to limit the profits made by big pharma?   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation visits Dharavi
One wonders why they went to Dharavi ...   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation doesn't consider media sponsorships 'advertising'
This man works for Reuters so he knows what he is talking about. It is a sound analysis.   more »
View Article  Propoor poopology and the Gates Foundation
A former staff member of UNESCO - IHE has secured some nice funding for his institution. You can get a PhD in poopology and then become a poopology postdoc. --- Innovation in watsan is much more likely to come from below than above. But then how could the Gates Foundation leaders know that?   more »
View Article  Tom Murphy nibbles at one of the hands that feeds others
Here a viewer from the cave, a blogger with many hats, taking a tiny swipe at the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  Clever phishing scam spam invokes the Gates Foundation
Look at the clever phishing scam spam that some of the Gates Keepers received. The Gates Foundation funds so many meetings with few outcomes that this one looks not so frivolous.   more »
View Article  Countering misinformation by the Gates Foundation
Here is a brave paper on countering misinformation by the Gates Foundation.   more »
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View Article  Civil disobedience and the Gates Foundation
This is the first instance that Gates Keepers know where a person has used a method of civil disobedience against activities of the Gates Foundation. Are there others?   more »
View Article  One teacher resists the Gates Foundation initiative
Thank you to this teacher for one brave act of resistance.   more »
View Article  Representatives of one filthy rich person meet another
An unadulterated narrative on a meeting between Gates Foundation staff and a filthy rich minister in Zimbabwe.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation and big money in Seattle education politics
Not everyone in Seattle lets those with big money walk all over them.   more »
View Article  Lots of other foundations have a few things to say about the Gates Foundation
This is a good start to find out where the Gates Foundation stands in its field. It might be more analytical if it was done anonymously ...   more »
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View Article  Manufactured consent and the Gates Foundation
in education.   more »
View Article  Busy important people take time to write book reports with the Gates Foundation examining every word
While we ponder why neophyte Bill Gates is writing book reports we are reminded that veteran Richard Horton of the Lancet also wrote one earlier in the year.   more »
View Article  Matthew Herper of Forbes beatifies Bill
Forbes used to have solid analysis of financial issues. Not so with this piece of hagiography.   more »
View Article  Jonathan Morduch, Gates Foundation grantee, does not claim objectivity
At least he comes clean about most of his work being Gates Foundation funded.   more »
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View Article  Philanthrocapitalism boys and Gates Keepers agree about debate and the Gates Foundation
The Philanthrocapitalism boys write something that seems familiar to Gates Keepers:   more »
View Article  Megan Tompkins on the impact of the Gates Foundation
Here is a sanguine account of the Gates Foundation impact by Megan Tompkins: "It's possible that the greatest impact the Gates Foundationwill have is fostering a debate on appropriate policy for foundations in a democratic society - for the flrst time in decades."   more »
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View Article  Amanda Glassman sees no problems with the Gates Foundation
Amanda Glassman works for the Gates Foundation grantee the Center for Global Development. She sees no problems with the Gates Foundation in this interview. She is a swell cheerleader.   more »
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View Article  Someone thinks the Gates Foundation Giving Pledge does more good than harm
Here we read about the hair product billionaire rescuing women in Thailand from prostitution. Way to go, Warren and Bill. See if you can railroad (Rockefeller pun intended) more people into signing.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation funds the National Immigrant Integration Conference
The Gates Foundation wants immigrants to 'integrate'. Has it asked immigrants if they want to integrate?   more »
View Article  Is Rajat Gupta, charged with insider trading, still associated with the Gates Foundation?
Is Rajat Gupta, charged with insider trading, still associated with the Gates Foundation? One hopes Bill and Melinda got some good stock tips from their lead advisor before he left. If he did.   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation gets a commitment that cannot be guaranteed
If you invest enough money in a country you can get its leader to say anything.   more »
View Article  Map of Gates Foundation connections with others in the complex
Check out this map on the Gates Foundation connections with others in the philanthro-industrial complex.   more »
View Article  Microsoft applies for a parasite control patent
Great diagram!   more »
View Article  The Gates Foundation and bribes
Some call these cash prizes. Others call them bribes. Does the Gates Foundation really want to be seen bribing politicians?   more »
View Article  Stefano Bertozzi of the Gates Foundation has a number one cutting priority in Africa
Gates Keepers are more interested in what Africans' No 1 priorities are than what Stefano's are.   more »
View Article  Protected Static has criticisms of the Gates Foundation
Cascadia home boy Protected Static has criticisms of the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  A visit from a Rich person at the Gates Foundation to a Nigerian clinic
Was a Gates Foundation grant involved?   more »
View Article  Burwell of the Gates Foundation will spend more time with family
When Sylvia said she wanted to spend more time with family she didn't say it was the Walton family. More concentration of power at the heart of the philanthropy-industrial complex.   more »
View Article  Do the protesters outside the Gates Foundation know about this big house in Florida?
Half a million dollars a month would sure help those homeless people outside the window of one of Bill's three offices at the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  Michael Edwards has some positive points for the Gates Foundation
Here are some positive points for the Gates Foundation from Michael Edwards. Do you think the Gates Foundation is listening?   more »
View Article  Where the poop hits the ground for the Gates Foundation
Here is a video interview with someone from the Gates Foundation who is granting a lot of money so that eighty masters and doctoral level students will understand reinvented toilets. What is UNESCO doing in the toilet business?   more »
View Article  Homeless people and activists hold a protest outside the Gates Foundation 'campus'
Gates Keepers can't find a word about this protest on the Impatient Optimists blogsite.   more »
View Article  Imploding evaluation by, for, and funded by the Gates Foundation
Here we see a Gates Foundation-supported evaluation of a Gates Foundation-supported project with a comment by chairs of a Gates Foundation-supported evaluation group. The potential for bias is clear. --- Please note that the New York Times is not yet funded by the Gates Foundation. And that you need to pay to look at the full paper in Richard Horton's Lancet.   more »
View Article  Horton article on the Gates Foundation in Alliance
"I think many of us outside the foundation worry that he is a very decisive thinker and a decisive decision-maker, but he's less good at listening to voices who caution him to take a broader picture ofglobal health. It puts us in a paradoxical position of on the one hand being enormousty admiring of the commitment he's made, but on the other hand being worried that the decisions he makes could be damaging to other spheres of global health."   more »
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View Article  Johns Hopkins, Gates Foundation grantee, gives back
Johns Hopkins calls 'global health' by its outdated name 'international health'. How many grants did it get from the Gates Foundation before it gave Melinda this award?   more »
View Article  Skloot article on the Gates Foundation in Alliance
"It has pushed well past the boundaries of traditional foundation behaviour, intervening in and influencing public policy on both domestic and international matters - for good or ill, or very likely for a mixture of both."   more »
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View Article  Alexander at Givewell takes down a Gates Foundation funded deworming cost analysis
Givewell has finally outlasted a bad reputation caused by its founders hijinks and done something useful. If the metrics people can't get the numbers right, then who can? There is a bit of egg on Gates Foundation faces over this grant. Please read the full Givewell posting.   more »
View Article  Ogden article on the Gates Foundation in Alliance
In this lead article, Tim Ogden writes the Foundation has issues with hearing the truth, accountability, and focus.   more »
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View Article  The Gates Foundation chair wins the Confucius Peace Prize
This is a great honor for the Gates Foundation.   more »
View Article  The chair of the Gates Foundation wonders about all this searching crap
Bill Easterly is known for providing good quotes but here is one of his best ones regarding the Gates Foundation and Easterly's division of people into Planners and Searchers ---   more »
View Article  Another Melinda talking head
Moonshots and Mandela. Can't lose with those images. Here is a talking head of Melinda from the Social Good Summit where hundreds of people were put in a room to listen to people talk about how good their programmes were. The audience was expected to tweet about it - manufactured consent for the networked generation.   more »
View Article  Melinda on family planning
The Gates Foundation funds some family planning activities. But not much. And they keep very quiet about it. Here is Melinda talking about how important it is. Of course Bill thinks all you have to do is make them richer and more educated and healthier and all will be well.   more »
View Article  Does being rich cause giving?
Ruth seems to have confused correlation and causation.   more »
View Article  Bill Gates is a global advisor to the president of Korea
This is new to Gates Keepers. --- One wonders what Le Myung-bak's electoral constituents think of him taking 'global advice' from a nonKorean college drop out code developer?   more »
View Article  Hilarious headline about the Gates Foundation
Melinda tweeting is not going to solve the 'communication problem' at the Gates Foundation. Twitter is talking. There is no way to ensure Melinda is listening to the small dairy farmer in Kenya who probably works too many hours to use Twitter anyway.   more »
View Article  Fluff piece on a former Gates Foundation staffer
The only take away message from this fluff piece about Raj Shah is that he is young and he used to work for the Gates Foundation. He did not shine in his presentation at the recent Social Good Summit. He appeared to be a young but boring civil servant way out of his depth.   more »
View Article  Ravitch reviews books on technological fixes for education
We can learn a lot about failing approaches from people who have 'turned'. Diane Ravitch is one of them. Here she reviews a couple of books about technological fixes for education.   more »
View Article  Links we liked
Links we liked --- lots of them.   more »
View Article  Melinda talks about a health system
One wonders whether Melinda can convince Warren and the Two Bills that systems change, not gadgets, is the best way to change health systems and improve health. Here she writes about a nongovernmental NGO project and not a Gates Foundation grantee. And the Foundation just hired another healthtechie as head of its global health programme. Gates Keepers think this is going to be an uphill battle.   more »
View Article  Positive spin on Gates Foundation activities
Three positive spins on the Gates Foundation activities ... cleverly crafted.   more »
View Article  Class warfare and the Gates Foundation
One of the chairs of the Gates Foundation is quoted: “There’s class warfare, all right,” Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”   more »
View Article  New Global Health head at the Gates Foundation
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Technological tricks once again trumps service delivery at the Gates Foundation. What skeletons lie in Mundel's pharma closet?   more »