Just the Facts About Online Youth Victimization
The research now about victimisation on the Internet turns out to be vastly different from what is reported in the media. This is leading me to believe South Africa needs to invest heavily in researching the impact of the Internet and mobile phones on young children and teenagers. So many assumptions are turning out to […]
What can I do to make me feel better about me?
This is a question from Yahoo! Answers that I answered and was voted Best Answer by the person who asked the question… As the week keeps going, I’m feeling more and more depressed. I feel like pretty soon something is going to happen to me because of my bad decisions. What can I do to […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, Distinguished Fellow at Brookings Institution and former Finance Minister of Nigeria, presented the final talk at TEDGlobal: Africa, the next chapter. She spoke at the TED conference in Monterey, California, in February 2007. Africa the old: the next chapter. The growth in sub-Saharan Africa is strong and inflation is under control, but the […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Patrick Awuah
Patrick Awuah left Microsoft to found Ashesi University. The question of transformation in Africa is a question of leadership. He gives a shocking example of two incidents at a hospital when they lost power. Learned about courage when stopped at age 16 and was taken by soldiers who wanted me to join some protesters. He […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Noah Samara
Noah Samara is a pioneer in satellite radio. Growing up, I saw many people battered by numerous problems, but there has always been hope. He is impassioned about empowering people with information. Because of HIV/AIDS, 17 million people would die by the end of the decade in 1990s would die and simply because of a […]