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by Matthew Garza
2 years ago
[good morning mali] This morning was my first day in Mali and it was great to wake up to the Djoumanzana sunshine from my window. Despite a late-night arrival and little sleep, I decided to wake up “carpe diem style” at 9am to catch up and have...
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by The Editors
2 years ago
Parachute Radio on the Global Conversation has been dropping small packages of India down for our readers over the summer. As Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon and colleague Paul McCarthy traversed India, they filed vivid shorts, vividly...
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by Saul Lustgarten
2 years ago
I had the privilege to attend the UN Public Service Awards Forum and Ceremony by the end of June in Barcelona. The conference intended to recognize citizen engagement initiatives and promote their diffusion, but also ask how we can use Citizen...
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by Chris Lydon
2 years ago
Click to listen to Chris' conversation with Paul Zacharia. (33 minutes, 15 mb mp3)
Paul Zacharia is a novelist and story writer eminent in the Malayalam language and in Trivandrum, the southernmost big city in India and the capital of the famously...
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by Matthew Garza
2 years ago
[is everything peaceful?] After an exploit of public transit from Providence to Boston to New York to the JFK Airport, I’m waiting in terminal one feeling excited, anxious, and somewhat bemused. I am of course excited for the adventure I know is to...
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by Innessa Colaiacovo
2 years ago
Smart Things that Lawyers Have Said to Me (or, that were said by lawyers while I was in earshot) ---------- “If there’s one thing I can say to you young people, one piece of wisdom that I can impart… it’s that when you’re adjudicating something,...
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by Anthony Badami
2 years ago
I set out now to relate my last few days of London to you. This leg of my trip has been exhilarating, but often challenging. You arrive at a place with a set of expectations and, more often than not, these expectations are disappointed. But,...
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by Chris Lydon
2 years ago
Click to listen in on Chris' slum tour with Brindge Adige. (54 minutes, 26 mb mp3)
BANGALORE -- Brinda Adige, a self-starting social activist, in yellow sari, is our guide to the slum side of Bangalore and the virtual canyon between the public...
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by The Editors
2 years ago
Think globally, act locally. It’s been said before.
Here, we will be concentrating globally. Meaning, we will look at international academic concentrations at Brown, where students often engage in quite rigorous research and thesis writing on some...
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by Innessa Colaiacovo
2 years ago
ed: I thought this situation was really fascinating. I love these case studies, but they are kind of frustrating to write because there is so much more to research and write about each situation. I have to stop myself at a certain point because the...
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by Eric Johnson
2 years ago
On Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in theOn Tuesday, I posted this article about how our bloggers were received in the countries they visited. When I emailed all of them last month, I also asked for stories about...
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by Innessa Colaiacovo
2 years ago
Three posts in one day! Remember the 10th Anniversary Celebrations? CBC Radio was there, and the piece came out today. It was really well done (aside from a few minor factual errors... you'll note that I am not actually a law student. But take any...
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by Chris Lydon
2 years ago
"First I hit. And if he still has his senses, then we talk." This is Kamakshi speaking. In the smelly slum that houses about 10,000 families or 50,000 souls near the heart of India's digital boomtown, Bangalore, Kamakshi is the first and...
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by Chris Lydon
2 years ago
Click to listen in on the conversation at Koshys Cafe. (35 minutes, 16 mb mp3) "... And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy or punctuality, does have...
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by Innessa Colaiacovo
2 years ago
Internship (Celebrity) Note! A movie is being filmed in Halifax right now. On screen Halifax can pass for New England, so back when the Canadian dollar was a lot lower than the American dollar we would get a lot of film crews up here. They once...
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by Innessa Colaiacovo
2 years ago
This internship has given me exposure to how decisions are made in refugee law. I get acquainted with the beginning of the process by reading the legislation that creates each application. This explains, for example, the purpose of a refugee claim...
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by Avraham Kenny
2 years ago
Just a few weeks into my stay in Rwanda, and I noticed that something had changed. When I first arrived and started working for Gardens For Health, I would say things like, “I think the new field officer model will make taking surveys a lot easier...
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by M Doyle
2 years ago
I have finished my starter kit! This is not to say there will not be any more edits, but the general content as well as proper format is all there.
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by Chris Lydon
2 years ago
Click to listen in on Chris's visit to the Ubuntu workshop in Ramanagar. (22 minutes, 11 mb mp3)
RAMANAGAR -- We drove out about 50 kilometers south and west of Bangalore to see a busted "silk city" and a social "silver bullet" in action. Vibha...
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by Zak Leonard
2 years ago
Being in the business of new media, I have a particular interest in the journalistic representation of events and issues for public consumption. The role of the media in modern India is an issue worthy of a blog discussion, given the often...
