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Our staff are actively working in the region in SriLanka and East Timor, but on December 26th were not in harm's way. Our partner groups and friends in SriLanka have also fared well, to our relief. Like the rest of the world, we have been following the Asian disaster closely.
This is based on a talk I gave in SriLanka last year at the University of Peradeniya, but with a heavier technology component given the engineering audience. I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year).
I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, SriLanka. Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.
She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in SriLanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India.
Maya recently launched in SriLanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011.
We've also had major efforts in Burma, SriLanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. We're hoping to revive it with new funding, and have already committed to developing more content with our partner, the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer. I also lived in SriLanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. He wrote a brilliant piece about the moral crusade of this issue, and that's not to say that it's not to be taken seriously.
We already have universal access provisions for things like telephones. Like SriLanka where pictures weren’t getting out. Do you think access to technology will be acknowledge as a basic human right like water and shelter? Is it trivializing human rights by associating the internet with it? Kevin Anderson: Yes.
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