Posts Tagged ‘information’5 results found.If we’re on the information superhighway, can we slow down?
… or at least learn to enjoy the ride (like this photo of the drive along Lac Leman between Geneva and Lausanne)? In the day and age of having information at our fingertips and spending probably 8 hours a day of a computer, how do we learn to slow down? With most of us on email or some kind of social media platform to bombard us with news, interests, and follow what … Read more → Life’s a whirlwind tour… time to make a change.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything in this blog. I think it’s time for a change to coincide with the change in what my blog’s going to be about. If you look at the sidebar of my blog, I’ve been writing seriously in this blog since 2006. But most of it’s been about my travels and life living abroad. I guess it’s a bit of a change now … Read more → UN Virtual Library in Timor-Leste
While working for the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s office in Timor-Leste, I was asked to put together a virtual library so that all the UN’s publications from Timor-Leste could be accessed online. At the time there was no systematic organization of the UN’s publications in an easy place to find. The virtual library was built using WordPress and featured tags and categories to organize the publications. Day 4 (#GISDay) – It's all about the data!
More and more people keep attending the afternoon seminars… including today’s presentation by the National Statistics Directorate of Timor-Leste. One of the key things in this 10-year old country is to get a better understanding about its population and what are the challenges to its growth. Timor-Leste will be conducting its national census next year in July 2010.
OCHA ROAP Map Atlas
As part of an ongoing project on Natural Hazard Risk for UNOCHA’s regional office in Asia and the Pacific, after analyzing and producing a hazard risk map for each country in the region, the final accumulation was to produce a publication. This was the cover I designed using Wordle. The rest of the publication was also prepared using Adobe InDesign. The publication was not produced as far as I know since … Read more → |
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