Paradoxically when I hear the word “responsibility” I think of freedom. (I’m talking a philosophical freedom that existed before George W damaged the word.)
A couple of years back, I “quit” international development. I never considered myself an “aid worker”, but I’d spent 5 years in total working in INGOs and international agencies in the sector.
Years of working alongside movements in Mozambique and Brazil have given me an appreciation of their importance and complexity.
Living in East Timor, a far-away, post-colonial place (not my own city which lived its own fraught history), I became fascinated with the gaps in history.
I am working with a friend from London’s ICT4D community on a project which uses fun, creativity and smarts to change our relationship with electronics.
Through my work with Global Voices, I have collaborated with some really inspiring people working to promote citizen voices, people expanding the definitions of media.
| seeking common languages
| prototyping alternatives
