Visited WiserEarth’s Sausalito office with Keshav today, to pitch Locra to them and see how we could use WiserEarth’s current resources. If you haven’t heard of WiserEarth, they seek to connect every and anyone who is part of the movement towards sustainability and making the world a better place. In short, somewhat like a social [...]
Stumbled upon Give.sg today, and got really excited. Founded by a group of NUS students and based in a NUS Business incubator, their work “supports charity and fundraising efforts across Singapore”. My guess is that it is a Kiva approach to charity in Singapore, where charities put up requests for donations online, and Give.sg provides [...]
Attended a talk about “Global Edupreneurs” by the Harriet Business Group today, fully expecting to hear about ideas about education- and instead found myself being sold a ~$4,999 training to become a salesperson to push the company’s education products to “foreign students”. I got to see the private sector and the government from different perspective [...]
Cambridge is as different from Stanford (or the US system of education) as I can possibly imagine. Where Stanford allocates rooms based on a lottery system, Cambridge’s policy of pricing rooms differently results in the well off people living in nicer rooms. Where Stanford programs always ended off with the reminder that anybody could “approach [...]
Source: The Independent, UK
I lived for a few days in Cambridge University, visiting many of the Singaporeans there. One of the world’s oldest universities, its halls were once graced by greats such as Newton, Marlowe and so many other legends. It is a charming town full of tradition with little shophouses and narrow, winding streets; [...]
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