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International Students Struggle to Work and Stay Legally in the U.S
I’m an international graduate student in the US, just like million other students who come from different countries to the US to pursue good education. As a major part of any good program, experience alongside studying or summer internships are highly encouraged. However, once these international students graduate, including myself... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at International Development
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Which non-profit should you donate to?
We live in a world where we yelp everywhere we go before going to read crowd-sourced reviews on various businesses. Although we go online to find movie reviews, restaurant reviews, and even nail salons reviews until recently there was no way we can find reviews on non-profits and charities. There... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at International Development
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Big Data for Development: Challenges & Opportunities
Earlier this month I attended a workshop called New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Children and Youth on the Move that gathered many organizations and individuals that are interested in both ICTs and migration, especially children and youth migration. One particular presentation that was very interesting was on “Big... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at International Development
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FrontlineSMS - Text Messages to Monitor Elections
Open source systems proved to have many advantages in recent years, not only for the private sector but also for the world of international development. The main advantage for open source systems is that it’s cost effective, especially in developing countries. One of the free open source software systems that... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at International Development
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Why Cutting U.S Foreign Aid to Egypt is Not a Good Idea?
Many Republican Senators have been publicly criticizing the Obama administration on the huge number of aid sent to countries in the Middle East. The Washington Times polled people online on September 13th after the attack on American embassies asking “Do you think the U.S. should stop giving foreign aid to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at International Development
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Open Government In Egypt
After taking a close look on what open government is, I couldn’t help but think what is the state of open government in my county, Egypt. One would think that especially after the revolution and the call for democracy that forced the previous president and the government to resign, open... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at International Development
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Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation - Interview with Sanjay Patel
Last week I had a chance to speak with Sanjay Patel, the Founder of Perpetuating a mobile and web app strategy and development, user experience and design firm. Most recently, Sanjay has helped launch Perpetuating Ventures, which has sponsored a number of investments in enterprise and consumer technology, within the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2013 at International Development
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To Combat Corruption in Russia It Requires More Than Public Technology and Internet Portals
Russia seems to have a comprehensive yet too wishful open government plan. I will be focusing on the implementation of the plan for corruption reduction. The Russian government is attempting to reduce corruption through this plan even when the statistics on Russia demonstrate that it is one of the most... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2013 at International Development
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