Development
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Film on the Pulse Pilot in Ahmedabad
Above is a short film my teammate Karl Oscar Teien put together of some of the key stages we went through in our pilot of the Pulse Active Food Savings concept in the slums of Ahmedabad, India this summer. Here you will see us as we developed the prototypes, brought them back to users for…
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I’m back in India.
That’s right, again. A couple months ago I got recruited by a couple classmates to spend the last module of my master’s program in Ahmedabad to help run a pilot of social enterprise they had been working on. I arrived on Monday morning and will be here until mid-August, from which point I will have…
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The Baha’i Academy (where I have been for the past two months)
I have always been fascinated by how Baha’i and Baha’i-inspired organizations tend to evolve so drastically to meet changing conditions and build on experience. The Baha’i Academy is a perfect example. It began in 1982 to provide an academic home for some of the many Baha’i scholars who were forced to flee Iran during the Islamic…
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Was that you on TV?
Yes. I’m the one with the big hair, the helmet and the engraved hunk of plastic. Watch it here. I was accepting the hunk of plastic on behalf of the Otesha Project, where I now work. More on that later.
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The End of an Internship
My internship is over and I have just posted a new set of pictures from the debriefing in Delhi that reunited six of the seven interns sent to India by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The set includes some from the Canadian High Commissioner to India’s crib, a sit-in by Bhopal disaster survivors, multiple draggings of…
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Return to NEDI – oops, I mean NETTC
The third and last stop of my personal pilgrimage through Panchgani was to my parent’s workplace and the buildings my father helped to build when we were there. In the summer of 1996, an old friend, Sherif Rushdy saw that my father was inbetween project management jobs and asked him to bring us over to…
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