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Heather Ross has posted her nutshell version of Bill Clinton’s speech in Saskatoon this evening. Bill Clinton Talks Social Capital

• It costs a lot less to make sure every child on the planet gets an education than it does to pay for even a small war.
• Countries, working together, are successfully fighting AIDS, TB, malaria, and other similar illnesses around the world.
• We all need to protect the environment or we will all suffer the consequences.
• We need to begin at home by working in our own communities to build respect for differences.
• The Internet is making it possible for individuals to make a difference in ways such as donating even small amounts of money, online, to relief efforts in Indonesia, Kashmir, and New Orleans.

Such simple yet powerful ideas. I would add to the last point that the internet also makes it possible for individuals to exchange ideas and share points of view in an unprecedented way. For example, I wrote a couple of sentences on this blog today, and less than 8 hours later I have a response from someone I’ve never even met (although we have connected and communicated, in this sublimely bloggish way) who is geographically about as far away from me as it is possible to be. I find that to be mind-boggling, yet also affirming at the same time. There is some core connection, some thread of commonality that I share with others around the world (and I can even find out where some of them are on the edublogger Frappr map).

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