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Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

My preambular comments followed by Dr Yunus’s address: Gandhi once observed that “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Peace and justice are inextricably linked. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize … Continue reading

14 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Bridging the Digital Divide with $150 laptops

Its all too easy to see why this commendable initiative is being derided by MS and Intel – it doesn’t use Windows and runs in competition with their attempts to … Continue reading

3 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Serious games: tackling real world problems through video games

Games People Play SMH LiveWire | November 16, 2006 Game makers are tackling real-world problems, writes Chuck McCutcheon. IF YOU’RE a video game player whose social conscience isn’t fulfilled by … Continue reading

16 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cities of Joy: Sustainable Practises

Enrique Peñalosa is one of the most inspirational speakers I’ve had the good fortune to encounter. What he has done for Bogotá I wish could be done for other cities … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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