Communicating in a networked world
I’m impressed that over the years there has been more and more ICT education taking place in the wake of the DITG founding (that we participated in, in 2005). Recently this took the form of a four-day Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) session for Tibetans in exile in Dharamsala.
You can see what I’ve written about in this blog related to the DITG.
Our Project Happiness students from three continents met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama this afternoon.
We had scheduled a thirty-minute audience and in fact His Holiness was so interested in the students’ questions that we ran nearly 90 minutes.
Among the students were three who had emigrated from Tibet by crossing high passes in the Himalayas – they’re students at Upper TCV now – and two Nigerian students. Both groups were accompanied by their teachers. The California students came by air, train and car and we’ve documented some of their activities already – with more to come.
Until we can get more student experience online, you can read about them at the web site of the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Here’s an interesting story about His Holiness the Dalai Lama first coming to Dharamsala, India. By one who knows it first-hand. Tenzin N. Tethong is President of The Dalai Lama Foundation. Sky (me) and Ward Mailliard had a discussion with Tenzin while the Project Happiness students awaited lunch.
The interview lasts approximately 7 minutes. Play it with QuickTime or VLC Media Player.
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The railroad will open up access to Tibet in ways we cannot predict. CNN has an interesting and long article on the railway to Tibet, and there are many others online. We know that the “Tibetan way of life” will become a thing of the past, and will uniquely adapt to contact with China and the rest of the world, but many things will survive. The discussion of what will survive has only begun.
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From March 4th thru March 10th, a delegation of Information and Communication Technology [ICT] experts visited Dharamsala, India, at the invitation of the Tibetan Computer Resource Center within the Department of Information and International Relations. Dharamsala is in Himachal Pradesh (state) in India – in the Himalayan foothills.