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Founded in 2006, the Ghana ThinkTank is a worldwide network of think tanks creating strategies to resolve local problems in the “developed” world. The network began with think tanks from Ghana, Cuba and El Salvador, and has since expanded to include Serbia, Mexico and Ethiopia. In our most recent project, we sent problems collected in …
For most of my life, all I knew of Ivan Illich was that he was the was the author of Tools for Conviviality, particularly this excerpt, which was ironically his restating of a comment by Swedish economist Staffan Linder: …there is a strong tendency for us to over-commit the future, so that when the future …
A lot of people said that before I went away… ‘you’ll come back a different person’. I’m not sure if this is based on experience, it feels like something you’re supposed to say, or because a lot of people who go away on gap years are younger than twenty and do a bit of growing …
I know other people’s holiday snaps aren’t always so appealing… oohh really another sunset, gosh that’s lovely and so on, but I’ve put together a slide show of my photos from India. This one is animated and includes music, so hopefully it’s a bit more fun than the usual. I loved India – can you …
It seems like a very long time ago now, but just a few weeks ago I finished the trip in Bolivia. After leaving Puno and hopping over a hectic border crossing, we stopped briefly at Tihuanacu, an archaeological site and home to the Subterranean Temple and the Kalasasaya, pre-Inca ruins of comparable importance in Bolivia …
Friends are away travelling at the moment, and they’re blogging like crazy. This is great because I’m getting to travel further, vicariously, through them (and I swear they’re all seeing more and having a better time than I did), and it’s also great because I’m spared getting those ‘biblical epic’ e-mails detailing what someone had …
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