August 17, 2013
Categories: E-learning, Strategies
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August 12, 2013
Categories: Africa, Strategies
At TEDxStellenbosch 2012, Mmatshilo Motsei gives a powerful talk, asking some fundamental questions about Africa and the liberation of oneself. She speaks about African women, leadership, medicine, our relationship with the environment, and the importance of oneness, mutual dependance, and generational equality for sustainability. She calls for an end to Africa’s “colonial hangover” and to […]
August 12, 2013
Categories: Advocacy, Africa, Strategies
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Abstract: Patricia Glyn was a radio and TV broadcaster for 13 years before making eco-adventure her living. Her most recent expedition was a two month journey into the Kalahari with a family of Khomani San/Bushmen. Patricia has published two best-selling books about her journeys and is currently writing about her latest. She has spoken at […]
August 12, 2013
Categories: Competitiveness, E-learning, Strategies
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The tablets offer local digital content to engage the pupils. When parents in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, found out that two schools in the vicinity had “special” new computers, they started signing their children up to attend. Such was the level of interest that Amaf Primary and Elim Academy in Kawangware, a low-income settlement in […]
August 9, 2013
Categories: Solar
Tags: green energy, ICT, solar
Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: Needless to say that if primary and secondary education was similarly privatized in the industrialized world we would experience higher illiteracy rates. Access to education and quality education in a sovereign nation are the result of political and fiscal policy. Most nations rich in natural resources are economically poor with weak […]