Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian Crisis, I think most of his work…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian Crisis, I think most of his work…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian Crisis, I think most of his work…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian Crisis, I think most of his work…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian Crisis, I think most of his work…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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About an year ago, I helped arrange a lecture by Christopher Lingle on Globalization and Culture. It’s now up on youtube. Among other things, Cris predicts an impending crash in China. He correctly called the last Asian crisis before it happened, so I’…
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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” HandZ is a community service project undertaken by the Rotaract Club of the University of Moratuwa.This unique project will focus on solution based aid rather than material based aid. HandZ will enhance the standards of living of a targeted community through the application of technological know-how rather than providing donation”
Last Sunday, I was able […]
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(Pic courtesy: The Daily Mirror)In view of the SAARC summit, the Sri Lankan government decided to demolish the homes of a bunch of poor people living in ‘unauthorized dwellings’. Apparently aesthetics are more important for the government than life and…
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For the past few years, despite high inflation, despite the war, there’s one statistic that the government had been harping about — Sri Lanka’s GDP growth has managed to hover at around 7%.Writing for her regular column in the DM Financial Times, Anil…
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Filed Under ( Activism, Democracy, Development, Events-Activities-Announcements, Opinions, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, Youth, Youth Participation, Youth-Culture-Society, Youth-led development) by Deane on July-7-2008
We were most Impressed with the set of (draft) guidelines put together by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program on the “Principles of Meaningful Youth Participation”. In our work in the sphere of youth-led development both in Sri Lanka and internationally, we have encountered two basic views among young people in their understanding of […]
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This really touched me..Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous. At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, he asked the audience for total quiet. Then,…
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A live webcast of the presentations delivered to the youth forum of the Copenhagen Consensus, a process which aims to prioritize solutions to the world’s biggest problems is now available on the event website.
The remaining sessions for 27th and 28th of May will focus on issues like diseases, water and sanitations, global warming, subsidies & […]
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I wrote this post on prioritizing funding for global development issues on the Beyond Borders blog. The post is based on the Bjorn Lomborg’s work at the Copenhagen consensus and this highly recommendable TED Talk. The key insight from Lomborg is basic…
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Filed Under ( Beyond Borders, Bjorn Lomborg, Copenhagen consensus, Development, Environmentalism, Media, NGOs, Opinions, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, Youth Development) by Deane on May-25-2008
One of the most controversial videos at Unreel, the documentary festival organized by us a few weeks back, was this one, a A Ted Talk by Bjron Lomborg in which he talks about prioritizing global development issues based on his experience with the Copenhagen Consensus.
I’m not going to comment much on the video (I […]
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In typical Sri Lankan fashion - about a month late and for a few more than one hour. Ok so it was an island-wide power failure. Given the frequency of these failures, (multiple times a month where I live) the folks at Greenpeace or WWF should nominate…
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According to recent reports, Christina Caldera, a Sri Lankan student at the University of Texas made it to the PlayBoy Magazine.Sri Lanka is really coming along, blond bimbos - check, gay celebrity - check, PlayBoy Mag - check. Next stop, um.. MILF Hun…
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BB-ite and the author of the ST Mirror’s Godaya Column, Dinidu De Alwis has started a (somewhat) novel concept aimed at helping the poor - Peer2Peer charity.
Dinidu has this his to say about what he calls The Godaya Initiative on his site :
The Godaya Initiative is a result of one of my travels to Hambantota […]
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The Sri Lanka Youth Parliament is a youth led, youth run initiative, whose aim is to mobilize and create a network of young people to bring about positive and sustainable change to issues that affect youth and their communities in Sri Lanka .
The first step towards this endeavor was the ‘first sitting of the […]
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