Category: World

Apr 08 2007

Language, Libraries, Public Libraries, USA, World

Framingham Library

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This week I got to visit the Framingham Public Library to see their Newcomer & Neighbors Center. The city has seen a large growth in their immigrant populations, and currently...

Apr 04 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OpenCourseWare in Chinese

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As mentioned in a previous post, OpenCourseWare is a project which aims at providing high quality educational material on the web for free. Lucifer Chu, a man who became wealthy...

Apr 01 2007

Technology, World

Brazilian Rainforest is Connecting to the Web

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Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva has just announced a plan to make the country’s Amazon region internet accessible! The belief is that Indigenous communities can participate in the struggle to...

Mar 31 2007

Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World

OLPC – One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...

Mar 28 2007

World

García Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude

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This week García Márquez has a lot to celebrate. 2007 marks the 40th anniversary since his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published; it also marks the...

Mar 23 2007

World

World Water Day

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In 1992 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution making March 22 World Water Day; This year’s theme is “Copying with Scarcity”. When thinking about water, a number of complex...

Mar 22 2007

Europe, World

Remittances

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A couple of days ago, the UK’s Guardian published a story about record breaking remittances going to Latin America. The high numbers involved shouldn’t really come as a surprise to...

Mar 16 2007

Women, World

Complicated Flowers

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Valentines Day and Mother’s Day are the biggest days of the year for flower sales around the globe, but do you know how those flowers come to you? It’s not...

Mar 16 2007

Archives, Libraries, Technology, USA, World

PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...

Mar 11 2007

World

“Hábleme de cosas serias”

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I could only find this article in Spanish, so sorry for those of you who won’t be able to read it. It’s an interview with Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Velez....