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

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 »

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 »

With all the self-backpatting about immunisation, why is there no Gates Foundation investment in a hepatitis C vaccine?   more »

It is good to take a peek at techrights when a new posting comes out.   more »

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 »

"Blair has been criticised for the way his private and philanthropic activities have appeared to merge."   more »

The Third World theme park, with custom maps and photographs of charming faces, is about to open at Gates Foundation headquarters.   more »

Someone has to pay for all those staffers.   more »

Worth reading ...   more »

Polio will probably return to India. Who will take the blame then? The same people getting the congratulations now? The Gates Foundation?   more »

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 »

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 »

Horton labels the quiet Aureos investment by the Gates Foundation 'philanthrocapitalism gone mad'. Can Chris Elias fix this?   more »

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 »

You have just a few days left to listen to a BBC radio broadcast on the Gates Foundation.   more »

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 »

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 »

A view from a Reuters person.   more »

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 »

Here is a thorough analysis. The Gates Foundation is in it.   more »

The Gates Keepers almost missed this article in The Nation. Did you?   more »

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 »

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 »

Good question. MSF is asking, too.   more »

Interesting censoring going on ...   more »

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 »

There are some brave principals with principles who will not get with the Gates Foundation programme.   more »

There is an attempt at humour here.   more »

It is not just the 99% who sometimes disagree with the Gates Foundation.   more »

Celebrities are always of interest down under.   more »

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 »

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 »

We need more Gates Keepers like this ...   more »

This is a must see video. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18970449   more »

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 »

Sarah Bosely was a respected journalist before she was bankrolled by the Gates Foundation.   more »

Health has lost a leader. Has global development gained one?   more »

What is the Gates Foundation doing in Zimbabwe anyway?   more »

Does the Gates Foundation also sponsor this Tea Party stuff?   more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Thanks, Tom, for this tongue in cheek analysis of the Gates Foundation 'communication' problems.   more »

Here is a thought for the Gates Foundation. Does Bill want to limit the profits made by big pharma?   more »

One wonders why they went to Dharavi ...   more »

This man works for Reuters so he knows what he is talking about. It is a sound analysis.   more »

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 »

Here a viewer from the cave, a blogger with many hats, taking a tiny swipe at the Gates Foundation.   more »

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 »

Here is a brave paper on countering misinformation by the Gates Foundation.   more »

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 »

Thank you to this teacher for one brave act of resistance.   more »

An unadulterated narrative on a meeting between Gates Foundation staff and a filthy rich minister in Zimbabwe.   more »

Not everyone in Seattle lets those with big money walk all over them.   more »

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 »

in education.   more »

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 »

Forbes used to have solid analysis of financial issues. Not so with this piece of hagiography.   more »

At least he comes clean about most of his work being Gates Foundation funded.   more »

The Philanthrocapitalism boys write something that seems familiar to Gates Keepers:   more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The Gates Foundation wants immigrants to 'integrate'. Has it asked immigrants if they want to integrate?   more »

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 »

If you invest enough money in a country you can get its leader to say anything.   more »

Check out this map on the Gates Foundation connections with others in the philanthro-industrial complex.   more »

Great diagram!   more »

Some call these cash prizes. Others call them bribes. Does the Gates Foundation really want to be seen bribing politicians?   more »

Gates Keepers are more interested in what Africans' No 1 priorities are than what Stefano's are.   more »

Cascadia home boy Protected Static has criticisms of the Gates Foundation.   more »

Was a Gates Foundation grant involved?   more »

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 »

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 »

Here are some positive points for the Gates Foundation from Michael Edwards. Do you think the Gates Foundation is listening?   more »

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 »

Gates Keepers can't find a word about this protest on the Impatient Optimists blogsite.   more »

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 »

"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 »

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 »

"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 »

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 »

In this lead article, Tim Ogden writes the Foundation has issues with hearing the truth, accountability, and focus.   more »

This is a great honor for the Gates Foundation.   more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Ruth seems to have confused correlation and causation.   more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Links we liked --- lots of them.   more »

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 »

Three positive spins on the Gates Foundation activities ... cleverly crafted.   more »

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 »

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 »