Wednesday, 9th June was spent attending the Mobile Tech portion of the Net Change 2010 conference here in Toronto. Following are some highlights and notes related to it: Mobile Takeover: How cell phones are leading to economic and democratic progress Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir (Founder, GrameenPhone) Professor Quadir works at the Legatum Centre for MIT … Read More →
Category Archives: Workshops & Seminars
TechKnowFile 2010
TechKnowFile 2010 was held on the 26th of May at University of Toronto. It was basically a one day conference with the usual keynote speaker and multiple breakout sessions you could choose from. In this post I am going to be sharing some highlights and my thoughts on the content. Oddly enough I wasn’t supposed … Read More →
Workshop: Working Across Cultures
Presenter: Ben Yan Date: 7th April 2010 “Seek First to Understand, then to be understood” – Stephen Covey This was a fairly short presentation, barely spanning an hour. Interesting however due to the myriad examples presented with regard to day to day interactions based on cultural differences. Ben compared culture itself to a large tree … Read More →

