Becky Blab

I turned 30 on Monday. While I used to wonder why people felt shy about announcing their age, I think I’m beginning to understand. As I approached this milestone last week, I began to feel more like I was marching to the grave than I ever have before. It wasn’t necessarily scary, but it made [...]

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[Chindia=China & India] The concept of Chindia has taken on a new relevance for me since arriving in the US. On Saturday I visited Flushing, Queens for the first time. As I stepped out of the subway, I felt as though I was stepping into Hong Kong–tons of hanging signs in Chinese, crowds. Yet as [...]

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It’s been almost a month since I returned from the US and the TSG summit. While I was there, I got a lot of ideas from other Netsquared organizers and I was eager to share them with the community in Jaipur, though there’s not much community yet to speak of. But it certainly enabled me [...]

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On Wednesday I attended the Regional Conference and Market Place for Labour Migration hosted by the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Jaipur. My previous colleague now works there and invited me. Compared to the last conference I attended one month ago in Silicon Valley, (the TSG summit) this crowd was much less plugged in–and people were [...]

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JRF communications strategy View more presentations from Becky Jain. I have almost completed the first stage of my consultancy project at Jaipur Rugs: formulating a communications strategy for Jaipur Rugs Foundation. See the above first draft which I just presented on Saturday. These past weeks I have had many informal meetings with employees from various [...]

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