Over at Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, David Sasaki has just announced the latest round of Rising Voices grant recipients. Among them is the Rising Voices project’s first Caribbean grantee: “Diary of an Inmate”, a Jamaica-based project which will attempt to counter the veneration of badboys and gang leaders by training prison [...]
From today’s edition of the New York Times: In an unusual ruling on Friday at the World Trade Organization, the Caribbean nation of Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States — an award worth up to $21 million — as part of a dispute [...]
Back in November I attempted to buy a One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computer under the Give One Get One programme, which allows buyers to purchase two units, one of which is donated to a child in either Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda. The offer, however, was limited to US and Canadian buyers and [...]
I’ll be the first to admit how awful I’ve been to CFR lately. A few days ago, I even posted a podcast at Global Voices and failed to let it know. It’s an interview I did in Egypt, with a blogger and activist called Shahinaz Abdelsalam, who also happens to be one of the most [...]