Lonely Planet guide to Cambodia, 6th ed, 2008, introduction:
“For every illegal eviction of the city dwellers or land grab by a general, there will be a new NGO school offering better education, or a new clean-water initiative to improve the lives of hte average villager. Such is the yin and yang of Cambodia, a [...]
Another meeting with AppLab, this time including Eric Cantor and Whitney Gantt. I’m feeling optimistic about the field research part of this summer. We’ll all head in different directions to try to learn more about the ways that farmers farm, learn, communicate, live; to study the implementation of government and ngo ag development [...]
Visited Chimp Island (http://www.ngambaisland.org/) today, in the middle of Lake Victoria. We rode a speedy boat to the island, crossing the equator, arriving on Chimp Island to view a feeding of the 40+ chimps who live there. All were rescued from captivity – some as babies, some as adults – and now reside [...]
We took the day off, scheduled no meetings, went to the American Recreation Association in the late afternoon for an independence day bbq and fireworks celebration. The ARA is in a neighborhood on the other side of Kampala; includes clay tennis courts, a bar/restaurant, a pool, wifi. Is a bit out of place, [...]
Today we met with Bridget Naggagga from AppLab (http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/section/applab-initiatives), a Grameen Foundation initiative in Uganda that develops mobile applications to reach vulnerable populations and Jon Gosier, head of Appfrica, an organization that invests in local entrepreneurs with the goal of helping to develop the local technology industry by linking developers with funders.
It’s an auspicious [...]
I’m in Uganda through mid August, with fellow researchers Charlene Chen, an ‘09 MBA student from UC Berkeley Haas and Michael Manoochehri, a masters student in the same class as myself at the UC Berkeley iSchool. We’re here to study agriculture and the roles that information, communication, technology (ICTs) might play in further developing [...]
Georgia School as a Laboratory for Getting Along
By WARREN ST. JOHN
Published: December 25, 2007
an article in the nytimes about a charter school in georgia focused on the education of refugees
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Sis sent me the link. The story includes a video piece. I watched it with some Burmese speakers — they dug the [...]
I’m leaving mae sot again, going back to Chiang Mai where I’ll finish some of the web work I started here, visit with some student groups, perhaps teach more people to maintain sites in Chiang Mai (pending a few return calls), definitely to practice some anusara (it’s been nearly a year since i have), and [...]
Three F’s
We want three F’s
Three Fs we want
First, we want Freedom
We want freedom for our future
Second, we want Friendship
We want friendship between our army and our people
Third, we want food
We want food to live peacefully
-Aung Way, Burmese poet
Before walking out the door of the nondescript home in the outskirts of Mae Sot, Aung Way – [...]
i taught at umphium camp this week — led a narrative writing workshop with some students, ages 17-25. we did a little oral storytelling and then the students made short narratives about their lives — some wrote about their journey from burma to thailand, some about their villages in burma, some about their lives [...]