Children's Education in Afghanistan
Anahita Maghami, Hanna Zhu
Wed Jan 27, 06-07:30pm, E51-325
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Barakat is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that does work in Afghanistan and the region around it. Their mission is to advance literacy and to strengthen education systems in these areas. Come learn directly from representatives of Barakat about the work they have been doing and how you can take action to aid the human rights situation in Afghanistan.
Contact: Anahita Maghami, mitai-exec@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Graduate Student Council
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Designing a Peace Builder Toolkit for Congressional Districts: a Hands-on Workshop
Donna Baranski-Walker, MIT ’81 Course VI-A Executive Director, The Rebuilding Alliance, Kaj Telenar
Mon Jan 11, 04-07:00pm, 4-253
Wed Jan 13, 04-07:00pm, 4-145
Fri Jan 15, 02-05:00pm, 4-253
Mon Jan 25, 04-07:00pm, 4-253
Wed Jan 27, 04-07:00pm, 2-139
Fri Jan 29, 02-05:00pm, 4-145
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2010
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Undergraduates and graduate students encouraged to apply
Congress does not pay enough attention to constituents on issues of human rights, peace, and justice. Individuals stop trying to reach their elected representatives when they feel their voice does not count. Join in this hands-on workshop to create a prototype real-time Peace-Builder Toolkit for Congressional Districts using cloud computing (Salesforce.com), GovTrack, and Google maps. These new tools help individuals who care about human rights, peace and justice form and connect to groups, help groups build their own membership and join coalitions, and easily show the size of their membership to policy-makers to press for better representation.
If you want to learn how to design interactive software tools that make a difference, and see them used in the world to build peace and justice, make sure you register for this workshop.
Web: http://RebuildingAlliance.org/MITWorkshop
Contact: Donna Baranski-Walker, dbw@alum.mit.edu
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