Skoll World Forum: internet, mobile technology and cross-cultural communication

This session at the Skoll World Foum was a natural choice to me. I met Katrin Verclas at the first ever NetSquared two years ago when I went to research how to set up Mentoring Worldwide. Now, like then, I took leave from my job and paid my own way to the conference [...]

I’m a global mentor, are you?

A big thank you to everyone who has kept in touch throughout this year of blog silence. I have been taking some time out of work to attend London’s School for Social Entrepreneurs as a student in their block group and I graduate tomorrow. For me it’s been time to think [...]

Collaboration and the Voluntary sector

There has been a lot going on in the UK in the field of collaboration and the Voluntary Sector while I have been hibernating.
Noticeably for Mentoring Worldwide a mention in the new published I-See-T project report to download as an Adobe PDF. It’s also available to read and comment on online in [...]

Mentoring Worldwide in Business Week

Bruno Giussani came to London and had lunch with me a few months ago now. He didn’t take notes. This great article was published last week on his blog and in Business Week. Now I know why his blog is called Lunch Over IP. You take him to lunch , he [...]

old media is the new new media

the netsquared session on the developing world was fascinating. It contrasted two approaches to thinking about connectivity – one in India the other in Africa.
Partha Pratim Sarka from Bytes For All talked about how the telecentre network in India was being used in creative and ingenious ways far beyond the humble [...]

Don’t speak! Point! (thanks to Ethan)

So, NetSquared. Lots of good posts and commentary here. Great gathering by Compumentor of clans from charity, ngo, philanthropy, funders, technology partners and activisits to discuss where next for remixing the web of social change. This is something we don’t do yet in the UK, I wonder why..I feel a plan coming [...]

netsquared

I’m taking a week of the day job and going on holiday to see friends and to go to this conference. Meeting up with various pledgers, and people who have blogged the pledge and the project some of whom have offered to help and take on specific roles. I’ll be introducing them [...]

we media conference

I’m at the WE MEDIA conference in London all about participatory media. It’s sponsored by the BBC and by Reuters and we are in the second day of talks. We have just been listening to Jeffrey Sachs live by satellite link from the Earth Institute at Columbia University as he was asked by [...]

mentoring for america

At TED 2004 the first seeds for a mentoring project were sown. 100 Tedsters entered a TED Cruise Challenge (on Monterey Bay…) and had to brainstorm then compete to produce one winner of an idea to change the world. The winning idea was the product of a coalition of three groups who had [...]

meet-ups!

Love the idea of meeting everyone on the pledge list, but how on earth to do it? So grateful to the generosity of the organisers of the TED Conference this year who hosted five lunches on one day of the conference and posed a difficult choice to all conference goers. Think too about [...]