Background India is a country that I can never figure out. As striking as the poverty and mismanagement was when I visited it this summer, I am continually struck by the stream of innovation and wonderful initiatives coming from institutions and individuals. I have written earlier about the open access to primary school textbooks in [...]

IssueLab, whose energetic staff member Lisa Brooks I met at Open Ed 2008, is a place for non-profits to share their research. Having worked at CARE Indonesia, I certainly know first hand that much great research is produced, and never shared, often even lost among staff changes and USB keys, so this is a very [...]

I got Reddit’ed! Two weeks ago I wrote a brief entry about the Chinese translation of Python, with both Chinese function names and Unicode enabling you to use Chinese identifiers. Not only did I get some good comments on the post locally, but it ended up on Reddit, which brought a small spike in traffic [...]