The cell phone may hold with it the power to unite the world, but there is a darker side to mobile communications, writes Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old from Belize. Cell phones are an integral part of our lives today. Most of us cannot live without our cell phone. It is the first thing we see …
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Technology is changing the way educational content is developed and delivered. A workshop offered campus radio stations in Nigeria the skills to be part of that change, writes Tayo Elegbede, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria. The stake of media and technology in education delivery is fast becoming irresistible in today’s world. Technological innovations are reforming …
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The disappearance of Malaysian flight MH370 launched a massive search but also underlined the importance of communication, writes Geetha Kanniah, 17, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Malaysia, who argues that both communication technology and style of communication are important in times of disaster. MH 370 made world headlines in the past few weeks; a sad story …
Updates from West Africa describe the Ebola outbreak in the number of people contracting and dying from the virus, but as Timi Olagunju, 28, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria explains, the outbreak is also affecting the way people communicate and do business. For a start, let us put a perspective to the term ‘language’. …
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Dennis Ekwere, 34, of Kaduna, Nigeria, is a ‘Youth Practitioner’ who is making a difference by role modelling and teaching social change aimed at peace. Here, he describes the results of lack of information about Ebola virus. The world woke up one day and discovered the resurgence of the Ebola virus disease, which was first known in …
While education is a highly-valued goal, there can be hurdles along the way. Nutifafa Geh, 29, a Correspondent from Ho in Ghana, writes that sharing stories about those struggles is one way of solving problems and helping students. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon and unlike the way I normally spend my break time, I …
Youth live in a tech-savvy world but Tiloma Chandrasekera, 28, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Sri Lanka now living in the UK, asks whether social media is creating a world of endless self marketing and attention seeking. Digital natives are considered to be a generation of the populace being born into digital technology, and are highly acclimatised with computers and …
Infrastructure is regarded as a prerequisite for sustainable and balanced economic growth in any economy, writes Naim Ebna Rahman, 20, a Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, who looks at how Bangladesh is facing that issue. Bangladesh is approaching healthy economic growth, estimated at more than seven per cent within the next five years, and the transport …
Information and computer technology offers both employment and empowerment for Nigeria’s youth, writes Isah Babayo, 28, a Correspondent from Gombe in Nigeria, who says the technology offers skills and networking opportunity. The current trend is of young people migrating from rural to urban areas in search of white collar jobs that are nowhere to be …
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