Last year, when Amazon.com released a their 6 inch Kindle with global wireless but not a Kindle DX I was excited. I was not impressed with the plan they put in place for Americans who roam around with their Kindle, and hoped that the reason they hadn’t released a Kindle DX, which has a 9 inch screen that is large enough to comfortable read PDF files formatted for 81/2″ x 11″ inch or A4 sized paper, was that they were planning on upgrading it.
Unfortunately, the Kindle DX with International Roaming was just released, and not only have they not improved the deal offered to Americans traveling abroad, the hardware has remained the same. The only real difference, it seems, between the old Kindle DX… Continue reading
The more I’ve traveled, the more I’ve seen how, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) youth are too often the target of human rights violations. In many cases, these abuses go undocumented, since the young victims of gender-based violence are fearful of revealing themselves to the authorities. This is understandable, since too often it the same authorities who are supposed to be protecting youth that are intolerant of young members of the LGBTI community and perpetrators rights abuses against. Even worse, sometimes the legal system itself sanctions these rights abuses.
This spring, I will be attending an event in Kenya, AfriCamp, that will highlight the work young people are doing to promote open society in Africa. The majority of people living in Africa are under thirty, and many African countries are experiencing a “youth bulge” in their population. Too often, African youth are seen as threat to and not a force for open society. I am hoping that the AfriCamp will help people to gain a better understanding what young people in Africa are already doing to promote open society and what more they can do with the right support.
Peer education and new media are two ways in which young people are working for positive change in Africa. Today… Continue reading
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