This Broadband Commission met under the Chairmanship of Rwanda s President Paul Kagame and the Mexican communications mogul Carlos Slim.

Countering narco gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.

Admittedly, not all of this giving is altruistic. New York s Lincoln Center announced last month that the billionaire entertainment industry mogul David Geffen has donated 100 million toward the renovation of its concert facility, Avery Fisher Hall, on the condition that it is renamed David Geffen Hall.