If there are one link you click on today, make it this one. The BBC profiles the Kalleda Photo Project –
Children at a rural school in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are running a photoblog about daily life in their village, Kalleda. The school gives children from poor families a free education.
The [...]
Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Online Projects, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 4 Comments »
Global Voices Summit in Delhi is going great guns so far. I had loads of fun running around and moderating the discussion on Blogging and Outreach. The conversation is flying about all over the room so I am not really live blogging it – but I am taking pictures and there are tonnes of them [...]
Posted on December 16th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Global Voices, Online Projects, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 5 Comments »
Have an opinion on Corporate Social Responsibility? Necessary or not? Viable, irrelevant or pointless?
From Global Voices
On Thursday November 9th, at 6:30pm EST (23:30 GMT / 05:00am Friday in India), Reuters will be hosting a live conversation about corporate social responsibility at its New York headquarters. …
According to the special web page built for the [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Global Voices, India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Online Projects, South Asia | 1 Comment »
From RSF: Reporters without borders organises 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship
How to take part in the 24-hour online demo against censorship:
The Reporters Without Borders website will be given over to this protest from 11 a.m. on 7 November until 11 a.m. on 8 November.
Go to www.rsf.org during this 24-hour period, find the list [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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The NY Times on Second Life and Marketing. [Wikipedia link to Second Life]
This parallel universe, an online service called Second Life that allows computer users to create a new and improved digital version of themselves, began in 1999 as a kind of online video game.
But now, the budding fake world is not only attracting a [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Online Projects, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 3 Comments »
All you budding writers, if Science Fiction be your cup of inter-galactic tea, please head over to the The Scian Science Fiction Short Story Contest 2006.
And yes, I am on the panel. Be nice to me.
Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
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Thank you Lucy Hooberman of Mentoring Worldwide and the BBC, for a wonderful lunch last week at Lemonia at Primrose Hill. They had wonderful vegetarian options for the veggie hungry desi. Even on that exceptionally hot day, I pigged over a range of starters. The place was airy, beautiful and very Mediterranean. You almost feel [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Food and Gastronomy, London, Online Projects, People, Random Links | 3 Comments »
