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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

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Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface. This article was originally posted at: [link].

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. We see the tragic consequences when fear and hatred win out over the Golden Rule in places like the Middle East, Iran, North Korea, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar. King understood just how deeply racism is buried in the human soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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After taking degrees at UCLA and Tel Aviv University and completing a tour of duty with the Israeli Army, Keyes became coordinator for democracy programs under famed Soviet dissident and Israeli minister Natan Sharansky. It caused a social media furor, and the Iranian government released Tavakoli for a time.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were supposed to start our visit with a very high government official, but instead Kipp took me over to Nairobi Women’s Hospital. Visiting the Hon.

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