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Voices of the World

My Lazy TEDIndia Post

November 8, 2009

Actually, my super lazy blogpost post TEDIndia. It was an absolutely fantastic experience and the best part was meeting such a great group of people. I feel incredibly fortunate, and humbled to have been a TEDIndia Fellow.
I’ll be blogging more thoughts and pictures in the next few days, but for now, here’s a compilation of [...]

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A day in the life of …

February 5, 2009

…. a mobile phone in Seoul, South Korea. Neat observations and statistics from Rudy de Waele. And more insights on youth and mobile phones in South Korea. I’d love to see more posts like this covering different parts of the world, including India! [links via @grahamdbrown on Twitter]
Here’s a presentation from him on Mobile [...]

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Kids for Mumbai

December 5, 2008

Priyanka Kargupta is an 8 year old living in Maryland, USA. She’s set up Kids for Mumbai – to help those affected by the Mumbai Terror Attacks.  I personally don’t know her, just got an email from her, and would encourage you to assess it for yourselves before donating.  She’s provided links to her Dad [...]

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Woman: Inspiration and Celebration

November 3, 2008

A celebration of women.
“Last month 26 women from around the world took a moment to write an inspiring sentence. Each woman has shared something unique – please take the time to read the message on each slide.”
A Woman’s Investment
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It takes disasters …

May 13, 2008

…. to break my blogging hiatus. How helpless we are under the force of nature’s fury. Myanmar Cyclone 28,458 deaths & 33,416 missing. China Earthquake almost 10000 dead & mounting. All of this in less than 10 days.
There’s been a huge load of blogging and tweeting live as the earthquake and its [...]

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Take Back the Tech …

November 23, 2007

November seems to be full of online activism days and weeks! Today’s the Buy Nothing Day, here’s another one – to end Violence Against Women:

Cheekay Cinco of APC Women writes to inform me of this campaign to end violence against women. This is a collaborative campaign by ICT users, advocates, collectives and organisations [...]

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New Round of Microgrants available for Rising Voices

November 6, 2007

Application Deadline: November 30, 2007
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the second round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for citizen media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and [...]

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Word of Mouth – more powerful in Asian countries

October 23, 2007

There’s been some recent discussion around whether Word of Mouth and Viral Marketing are indeed different. In my view, viral marketing is the outcome of word-of-mouth recommendations. And it’s not surprising to see Asians rely a lot on word of mouth in this study from Neilsen that reveals some interesting trends:
- 7 of [...]

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Panties for Democracy

October 22, 2007

Send your panties to Burmese embassies as a sign of protest for the atrocities being committed by the Burmese regime. A new wave of activism, Panties for Peace – a manoeuvre meant to embarrass and insult the Junta:
“The manoeuvre is a calculated insult to the junta and its leader, General Than Shwe. Superstitious junta [...]

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A Vision of Students (in the US) Today – Digital Ethnography

October 18, 2007

A new video from Mike Wesch, who had earlier made the fab video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. Mike Wesch’s videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology.

In a blog post describing this video, Prof Wesch says:
It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what [...]

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wf07 – am wondering …

October 13, 2007

….. why weren’t any of these amazing ladies at the Women’s Forum? (apart from Anina and yours truly)
A day in an astrologer’s life by Jacqueline Bigar
A Girl Must Shop by Megan Garnhum
A Little Pregnant by Julie
A Luminous Halo by Cicily Corbett
Alkamar by Susan Reid
Allied by Jeneane Sessum

A Look at Art & Design: by Lisa Mikulski [...]

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In the media we trust, or should we? wf07

October 11, 2007

One of the sessions that I felt would be interesting was this one. I sorely missed the fact that there was no blogger on the panel – surely bloggers are the Media too .. and one of the concerns mainstream media has around blogging is around veracity and trust! Would have loved to [...]

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Opening Session – wf07

October 11, 2007

Started off with a great violin recital by Vera Tsu from China.  Followed by the opening speech by Aude Zieseniss de Thuin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Womens Forum for  the Economy and Society  who thanked us for being here – 1200 participants — 70 countries – 150 speakers in 60 sessions. More than [...]

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Off to Deauville, France

October 9, 2007

Am speaking at the World Women’s Forum on the 11th and leaving for Paris tonight. Thought I’d just bring back a post I did a few days ago at Mosoci, on our session. There’s also going to be live-blogging from there, and I will do my bit too.
Women’s Forum for the Economy [...]

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