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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Since 1986, the country has been transitioning from a central-planned economy to a free-market system and trying to move from its dependency on agriculture to industry. Vietnam is an S-shaped country that is slightly larger than New Mexico.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.