[from Minneapolis] ICT & Empowerment
After Los Angeles, I had another conference trip. This time it was Minneapolis conference on Media and Human Right. Honestly, being drugged all the time didn’t help much in preparing me for the presentation. And for this presentation, I couldn’t recycle from my old powerpoint files. I hadn’t presented this one before.
But anyway, between sleepy and drowsy (biggest chunk of my time in LA and Minnesota was spent for sleeping!) I managed to finish my powerpoint before my turn. In order to hinder me from rambling too much, I decided not to take the painkiller before my panel. So I was kinda in pain. The result was I became a different person. This time my presentation was serious. No usual jokes. I was fast. And perhaps furious :p. Pain kept me awake too. And perhaps it’s good to be ‘different’, since I only had 10 minutes ++ to tell all!
It was funny that Pete Tridish from the Prometheus Radio Project introduced me not only as a professor bla bla bla but also as someone who was jailed in Turkey with 9 Russian pros…ooops ladies. Arrgh, he really googled me!!!
I enjoyed the whole conference and was pretty impressed by some presenters. Two other speakers in my panel are great people I admire: Doug McGill from McGill Report — a professor of journalism at Carlton College, a journalist and a human right activist and Jim Ellinger from World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC). It was my honor and my great pleasure to share the same panel with them.
About my presentation, I basically shared stories from 5 case studies in Southeast Asia and some lessons to learn from these cases to contrast them with typical ICT & Community Empowerment projects. Please find below my slideshow.
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You leave me breathless again. And I (and others who devour the pieces of yourself you reveal here)can’t but conclude you are a daredevil in many ways.
Whatever Mr Tridish did reveal about the “Turkish Affair” (this, I suggest, may well be the title of the next James Bond movie), it’s nothing compared to traveling far and working hard when you’re still convalescent.
Yes, I stand in awe and admiration (but would I be your father I would be concerned and ask you to be more careful and take your time to recover)(Sorry).
mer: daredevil? hahaha….. luckily, my father never read my blog, so he wouldn’t worry too much
btw, yes, i was traveling far, but wasn’t working hard, mostly sleeping on the trips!
By colson on 06.08.08 5:47 am
a simple and nice slide presentation mer..
gue melarang mahasiswa2 gue ber-powerpoint tanpa gambar. teks harus kurang dari 50%, bahkan 30% kalau bisa. kalau cuma menampilkan kata2 yang akan diucapkan, gue bilang, powerpoint-nya harus diban :)) lebih baik jangan pake! :p
not my style but i really want to be like that, someday..
gue gak bisa ngomong banyak euy kalo presentasi gitu..
mer: thanks
By aaqq on 06.08.08 10:17 am
I remember the one tambon one product campaign… geee… it was long time ago
mer: i’m impressed you know about OTOP… yes, it started long time ago!
By melly on 06.08.08 10:30 pm
LOL .. seeing how serious your presentation was and hearing you had spent sometime in jail, audience might have mistaken you as a ’sangar’ professor .. LOL.
mer: hahaha, didn’t think of it… but i think you’re sooooo right!!
By santi on 06.09.08 10:58 am
Mbak Mer,
Saya kemarin nggak bisa ikut gabung di Minnesota.
Gagal dapat Visa US, padahal sudah dibantu sama FF Jakarta. Moga-moga bisa ketemu lagi di lain kesempatan.
Kapan ke Indonesia?
Nasir di Combine Yogya
mer: iya, sayang ya ngga bisa gabung…… aku ke Indonesia akhir Juli/awal Agustus…. ketemuan di Yogya?
By nasir on 06.10.08 4:36 am
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