Becky Blab

Nowadays “creativity” has become such a buzzword, it’s no longer something relegated to the fringes of society, but becoming more and more an integral aspect of surviving in a tough economic climate. Whether it’s innovating a new solution to an old, pesky problem to writing a blog post, to even traditionally analog activities like drawing–creativity [...]

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I’ve been with MobileActive.org for one month now, working as an intern on communications for the Mobile Media Toolkit project. The toolkit aims to be an all-inclusive asset for media creators of all persuasions. The site is now available in Spanish, Russian and Arabic translations and we expect to add more languages in the near future! [...]

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[youtube o7ltWjmozFs] The above is a trailer about the book “Dreaming in Hindi” by Katherine Russel Rich. I recommend reading the excerpt: One time in India, I appeared half-naked in a temple, just up and flashed the worshippers. This was not something I’d been planning to do; I surprised myself on the Lord God Shiva’s [...]

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I feel so refreshed after attending NASSCOM Foundation‘s workshop with Gaurav Mishra (aka Gauravonomics). It was informative and inspiring. Not to mention I was totally impressed by Gaurav’s humility and approachability, his genuine eagerness to share his business and marketing knowledge for activism and social change. I have been doing tons of research on how [...]

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For my dissertation at LSE, I wrote about a UNICEF project for girl’s education and questioned its assumption that education was automatically empowering. A contact of mine currently at the LSE, Layla, has posted some very interesting research–conducted by the LSE, no less–that again brings these questions to my mind:  Cleverest women are the heaviest [...]

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