Their founders, owners and leaders are almost universally well-educated white Europeans and Americans, as are the overwhelming majority of their senior staff. Most bingos were founded for a specific purpose like protecting wildlife or the environment, providing medical services to the world’s poorest, helping developing countries in times of famine or working for greater transparency in financial markets. They are funded by governments, commercial corporations and the philanthropic foundations of billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros. This article is about this last kind of bingo less fun than the other two, certainly, but still worthy of examination.īingos typically have their headquarters in a major city of a developed state New York, Washington and London are popular, as are Berlin, Bonn and Geneva. Bingo is also an acronym for Big International Non Governmental Organisation.
More exotically, it is also the name of the gorilla drummer in the psychedelic ‘Banana Splits’ band from the eponymous US TV series and movie.
Bingo is a game of chance popular across the world.
