The video also featured Tajbakhsh, an urban planning consultant with the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute.
She works for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, founded by the philanthropist George Soros.
Most obviously, networking the earth will make every open society much better at evading nature's fury.
Turkey offers a more open society than some Muslim countries, but that openness has its limits.
As in any other open society, data are sometimes questioned and interpreted politically by different parties.
"Ours is an open society in which relatively few things are secret, " DeGraffenreid noted.
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George Soros is a keen backer of campaign-finance reform through his foundation, the Open Society Institute.
Tajbakhsh was an independent consultant and urban planner employed by U.S. philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute.
Third, the West should provide material assistance to those truly committed to a free and open society.
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George Soros, in his book "Open Society, " described how Mr. Berezovsky struggled to adapt after 1990s Russia.
And part of living in a free and open society means that occasionally some people will abuse that freedom.
Today, Pierre-Louis, the Executive Director of the Open Society Institute in Haiti.
Unfortunately, the Open Society Institute, founded by George Soros, a financier and philanthropist, had some rather mixed news on that front this week.
While America likes to think of itself as an open society, it can get upset if it feels that the openness is being abused.
So the conclusion was that our war aim should be to eliminate terrorism as a threat to our way of life as a free and open society.
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The Austrian Government is the main sponsor of the 2nd UN Inter-agency Meeting which has also received a contribution from the Open Society Foundation, via DEMOS Guatemala.
"Whether the motivation is racism or some psychological disorder ... in an open society, it is impossible to keep a single individual from doing some damage, " he said.
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Their most prominent donor, the financier George Soros, runs a foundation, the Open Society Institute, that has spent as much as a hundred million dollars a year in America.
As such, she is a unique and indispensable witness to both the strength and weakness of the West: to the splendor of open society and to the boundless energy of its antagonists.
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UNESCO, and press freedom organizations including Intermedia Pakistan, International Media Support, and the Open Society Foundations is organizing an international conference on the safety and security of journalists in Islamabad from 6 to 7 March.
However, argues Svetlana Tsalik of the Open Society, a group financed by George Soros, a well-known investor and philanthropist, these funds can help to sterilise capital inflows and (in theory) to save for a rainy day.
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George Soros's Open Society programme offers one modest solution: it tops up the pay of a small group of elite public-sector workers who have returned to countries in Central and Eastern Europe after being educated abroad.
Will China become a more open society?
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The organisations supporting the decade, which include George Soros's Open Society Institute, the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme, will help governments to carry out ten-year plans focusing on education, employment, health and housing.
And David Davis has got no answer to the fact that however good your border controls we now live in a globalised society, in a very open society with hundreds of thousands of people going backwards and forwards each year.
Its launch was the culmination of a conference on 6-7 March, hosted by Intermedia Pakistan with support of International Media Support (IMS), Open Society Foundations (OSF) and UNESCO, and attended by many local stakeholders, including members of parliament.
At the Open Society Institute in Brussels, though, director Heather Grabbe called it a "wake-up call to European leaders to look up from the endless euro negotiations and remember what the project is ultimately all about - peace as well as prosperity".
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Heinz ( HNZ - news - people ) Kerry Foundation award, public advocate for husband John's presidential bid, and was listed as a "grantee" on the 2006 Soros Foundation Network Report within their Open Society Institute's "Politicization of Science Program".
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