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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Consortium is made up of six island nations, commonwealths or territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia (including Chuuk and Pohnpei), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think it's one of the great perks of my job, working in the nonprofit sector. The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests. Some of these interactions lead to disabilities, such as the children blind from Vitamin A deficiency, which didn't happen before rice supplanted traditional foods.