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Category Archives: social issues

Take a breather …

This week’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane …it’s a life saver

Brian Lim and his small team at Wise Networking have been innovating an air-deployable mobile cell network solution – a miniature mobile phone tower that can be air dropped into a disaster area to quickly restore mobile coverage. Each miniature tower sits within its ‘Gyrochute’ which gently drops the tower to the ground. Read the full story featured in this month’s International Fire Fighter Magazine, pages 84-86, and watch the prototype Gyrochute in action here. These are some of the drawings to help explain the concept and its potential.

Change in a change infused world …

Some of the illustrations for the new Kinnford Consulting website. ‘…bringing creative facilitation & social science insight and real-world experience to your complex organisational and policy challenges’. Visit the site for more.

Being well ….

‘It’s a no-brainer, momentum grows for Victoria to deliver a wellbeing budget‘ (Pro Bono news post) -New Zealand delivered a wellbeing budget in May last year – it is thought that the approach would help social recovery after COVID-19. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.

Learning …

Out of the blue, A virtual journey through resilience, reimagining and recovery for higher education in the new coronavirus distorted world. A few of the cartoons recording the CAULLT (Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching) virtual conference, 12 & 13 November – disruption, adaption, the value of AI and re-assessing assessment.

Golf cart to oblivion …

Bagged …

Today’s cartoon for Pro Bono news.

Loaded …

A cartoon illustrating an article on the Culturico website: The explanatory Failure of ‘Luck’ by Steven D. Hales. Contrasting ‘lucky’ Donald Trump, born into wealth and privilege, with ‘unlucky’ Frederick Douglass, born into slavery; the point is made that ‘instead of passively dismissing life outcomes as matters of luck, we should work towards making those nations and cultures truly equitable ones for all‘.

Future gassed ….

Zero sum emissions targets?! Pfffft….

Trusted…!

Despite headlines claiming a crisis of confidence in charities and not-for-profits, there is no evidence for a global trust crisis in the not-for-profit sector. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.