Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Mobiles in Classrooms

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    BridgeIT is a program that uses mobile phones to bring educational videos to rural classrooms – a mobile teaching tool deployed in The Philippines and Tanzania, which is changing the way teachers and students interact. Read more

  • Negative Effects of Remittances

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    Last year, the official amount of remittances in the Phillipines reached US$14.4 billion, more than 10 per cent of the country’s GDP. Thus, the country is now the world’s third highest remittance-recipient country after India and Mexico. But how much do the Philippines pay for the remittances? How do natives […]