Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Apr09'
Cultural Challenges and Personal Sacrifices: Is the Journey Worth it for Hispanic Women in Hi-Tech?
by Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk - USA - Talking to my friend Nevada Flores* about her decision to leave her comfortable engineering job reminded me of one of our scary trips into the Cuyamaca Mountains outside San Diego. An avid hiker,...
Remote Warfare Radically Changes the Front Lines
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In ancient times, warriors could look one another in the eye on the battlefield. War was fought with minimal weaponry, a person-to-person test of bravery and strength. Battlefields were clearly demarcated, extending only...
E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump
by Michelle Chen - USA - The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, embodies a collision between past and future. Amid acidic plumes of smoke and vast mountains of trash, migrants scour for valuable scraps using...
More Internet Equals More Jobs: Reviving the Economy with Broadband
by Megan Tady - USA - Connie Toops would be content photographing birds all day long. In fact, she’s made a business of it, working as a professional freelance nature photographer. Her office could be her backyard – she moved...
Silver Surfers: Senior Citizens in India Embrace the Internet to Cope with a Lonely Future
by Lesley D. Biswas - India - Dennis Meredith has two sprawling bungalows on 15 acres of rich fertile country land in McCluskiegunj where he has spent his life nurturing a beautiful garden and orchard. Dennis has lived here since...
Kashmir's Private Industry Offers Solutions Where Government Falls Short
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - With soaring unemployment and a private sector still in troubled infancy, for the last few decades, government has provided the bulk of Kashmir’s jobs. Yet today this may be changing; on the heels...
Lonely in an Electronic Wilderness: “the great emotional sickness of our era”
by Handan T. Satiroglu - USA/Turkey - “Technology allows us to separate ourselves from reality – moving people away from the real to the imagined, from the emotional to the controlled,” observes Derek V. Smith in an email interview. The...
The Pink Chaddi Campaign: Landing a Pink Slap on the Face of Moral Policing in India
by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - India is now the land of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women. Who would have thought?...
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