by Clint | Oct 18, 2008 | ICT4D, Intercultural communication, Key Questions, Religion
What can one person do to make the world a better, safer place? In a previous blog entry I talked about meeting Nelson Mandela, who is such an inspirational character. On Tuesday of this week I met and shook hands with his predecessor as president of South Africa,...
by Clint | Sep 21, 2008 | ICT4D, Innovation, Key Questions, Technologies for Intercultural Communication
I am back in Finland again. (Have I ever mention how much I like this place? – If you have never been to Finland before, you need to reconsider your life goals) 🙂 Part of why I like the University of Joensuu is because of their strong international programs, and...
by Clint | Aug 8, 2008 | Conferences, ICT4D, Intercultural communication
At first it was way more work than I expected to organize a conference and workshop like TEDC – but in the end, it was a lot of fun to see it all come together and to have so much participation from local Ugandans and from the people from all around the world...
by Clint | Aug 2, 2008 | ICT4D, Key Lessons, Technologies for Intercultural Communication
Taking the ideas from the last two entries (about mistakes that was nick-named the “wireless village”. Essentially, in the middle of nowhere Africa, some people from the US (Inveneo) had spent a ton of money to create a way for 5 remote huts (in an area...
