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- ↑ 8th Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture Archived 2009-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1 2 Ashoka, Innovators for the Public Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Experiencia peruana se ha extendido a Argentina, Brasil, Chile y España Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine