President Obama calls on federal agencies to build more alliances with charities and community groups abroad and ensure that foreign governments do not "dictate the nature of U.S. assistance to civil society."
Obama recently gave a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, where he denounced regimes in Russia, Venezuela, and other countries that he and his administration believe are "vilifying legitimate dissent as subversive."
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.