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Caroline Casey on Charlie Rose
Author admin | 03.03.2008 | Category Ireland, Pakistan
Here’s Caroline’s interview on Charlie Rose!!! Yes!! She finally sent me the link so I could post up the video here!!
Rabia Garib on Pakistan’s Breakfast with Dawn
Author admin | 03.03.2008 | Category Pakistan
Here’s a clip of my interview on a popular morning show called Breakfast with Dawn…
Fellows Give Feedback!
Author admin | 24.02.2008 | Category Chile, Finland, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Updates
Earlier this year, I had sent out an email asking each of the fellows some questions, to reflect if the fellowship had helped them professionally or personally. I have taken the liberty to put together a few of the responses and am posting them here so you can read their responses and assess for yourself what the impact has been. While the Fellowship is a long-term association to a progressive cause, this is a very short-term insight into their lives!
What was the biggest achievement(s) since your return from the Fellowship
Gunvor Kronman: I survived and actually won a few very tough battles in the Public Radio and TV Board, resulting in the sanctity of minority channels. This is a fight that will continue. I have successfully started the re-orientation of my center. Strategy processes are going well, and of course, I managed to reconnected with a number of old friends.
Farith Rithauddeen: I managed to learn to delegate responsibilities and coach my new team to allow them to learn and resolve issues in their own way. I also brought
Roberto Guerrero: I was able to start a fund raising program for our law school shortly after my return. We launched it in October and in less than two months we have raised half of the targeted amount. I also implemented many of the management tools I learned for a law firm which helped 2007 become one of our best years in sales, revenues and internal organization.
Emine Kaya: Sharing my experiences of the Fellowship with my collegues from both the Dutch Ministry and the European Commission. The lectures I gave will be published in an article , dealing with the topic on linking integration-immigration issues with experiences from the EU-USA.
Everybody has to deal with diversity, not only societies, but also multinationals. Can the models of the profit and private sector be compared and if yes, what are the results? The private sector has already established, as a vision and a mission, that diversity leads to creativity which leads to inspiring working environments, innovative products and outputs.
On a societal level, diversity is dealt within the historical, judicial and cultural framework of a particular country. There can be discrepancies in national policy approaches (for example racist, multi-cultural, liberal etc) however pressing demographic and economic challenges are urging factors to re-design new answers to issues of integration and immigration in this global society.
Susie Perera: I faced the biggest challenge in my life up to now when I got back from the
Ratish Runs Around Boston!
Author admin | 05.01.2008 | Category India, Looking Back, Pakistan
So, when we were waiting to hop over for a quick dinner right after the Reception at the State House, here was Ratish (MNP 2007 Fellow, India) insisting on wearing his big “B” cap in public! Of course, if you look closely at the left portion of the photograph, Mandira DID run after him and put a stop to that! I would know! I was there! *giggles
Garib Meets Ginger!
Author admin | 16.10.2007 | Category Pakistan, Reunions, Reunions, USA Fellow
Whilst walking around aimlessly through the streets of Chicago, I DID happen to remember to let Suzanne Ginger know that I JUST MIGHT be sitting in a Starbucks out in the Naperville area… She was GREAT about driving out and meeting with me! Yay! Here’s a photograph (like the proof we need to know that this meeting actually happened!)
Tim Cahill Meets with Me!
Author admin | 13.10.2007 | Category Pakistan, Reunions, USA Fellow
State Treasurer for Massachusetts and USA Fellow to India and Ireland, was great about meeting me at short notice, while I was on my way to the airport. We sat and chatted for about 45 minutes and discussed possible collaborative ideas and well, just had a wonderful time. Whilst welcoming me into his office, he smiles and says, “Well, it’s the least I can do for an Eisenhower Fellow!” Thank you Treasurer Cahill and wish you all the very best!
Rabia Garib’s article gets Published in India’s Digital Learning Magazine (July Edition)
Author admin | 17.09.2007 | Category India, Pakistan, Updates
As the name suggests, the Digital Learning Magazine has everything to do about Technology and its role in Education. They had put out a call for papers back in June, requested a few of the entries to submit articles for the July edition of their magazine, and invited all of us to present our papers at the Conference in August.
I was unable to make it to the conference because I got my visa issued very late, but they were great about putting the issue online and sharing it with everyone. You can read the article that was published in the July edition of Digital Learning, from the link below:
Fellowship Impact: Pakistan!!
Author admin | 07.09.2007 | Category Pakistan, Updates, announcements
The Our Stories project is a collective effort of One Laptop Per Child, UNICEF, StoryCorps, and Google to leverage digital technologies to help capture and share these stories online. In particular, the project will leverage the distribution of millions of laptops to children in developing countries through the One Laptop Per Child program as a platform for helping to capture these stories. As part of the introductory training materials, children will be asked to interview and record the stories of their parents and grandparents using the audio microphone embedded in the laptop. These stories will then be uploaded to the Our Stories site at Google, where they will be made available for searching and sharing throughout the world.
The pilot program for the “Our Stories” project is being run in Uganda, Africa and Karachi, Pakistan. Eisenhower Fellow 2007 from Pakistan and CEO, Rasala Publications, Rabia Garib, interacted with the UniWiki team in April and will be running the pilot program for Pakistan
Shirlene, Ratish and Caroline Get Interviewed by Pakistani Publication
Author admin | 03.09.2007 | Category Pakistan, Singapore, Updates
Shirlene Noordin, fellow from Singapore; Ratish Nanda, fellow from India; and Caroline Casey, fellow from Ireland, were all interviewed by a Pakistani media publication for an event called the Media and Marketing Festival, which took place today, September 3, 2007. You can read their interviews at: www.media4pakistan.com
The portal is one that I have launched to cover trends and the business of media in Pakistan and the South Asian region. Will keep you guys posted for other fellows that are interviewed for the same site later on!
First stop: Dublin!
Author admin | 19.05.2007 | Category Ireland, Pakistan, Reunions
I finally managed to get my visa (courtesy some GRRREAT people at the Irish Embassy in Chicago) and went to see Caroline and Fergal - Let the reuinions begin!! The self-snapped photograph is of myself, Caroline and Shakira
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