Cape Town, South Africa, 27 March 2017: Regulators from around the world are set to attend the fifth annual Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit, to continue discussions on effective spectrum management and the role of dynamic spectrum access in enabling new connectivity solutions. The Summit, which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from […]
Global Connectivity Agenda to be Highlighted by Argentinian Undersecretary of Communications Planning at Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit
Driving the Americas digital ecosystem top of Global Summit agenda Bogota, Colombia, 28 April 2016: Mr. Hugo Miguel, Undersecretary of Communications Planning in the Argentinian Ministry of Communications will present a keynote speech today at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) Global Summit 2016. The keynote address marks the beginning of the second day of sessions […]
Saigon Horn: A TCM doctor’s perspective of sung te giac
Early this year on a visit to Vietnam I interviewed a university trained Traditional Medicine Doctor at a respected clinic in HCMC. Though he shares the same medical views on rhino horn as the generations of doctors in Vietnam and China that have practiced before him, he says rhino poaching is stupid and should stop. […]
Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Groups and Citizenship
By Sara Moreira In a country which has experienced constant political instability, how can civil society mobilise itself to prevent further coups d’état and to build a participative democracy based upon its communities? Some possible ways forward were suggested [1] [pt] by a group of 70 young people at a meeting promoted by the Movimento Ação […]
Brazil: ‘Hands That Cure, Words That Heal’
Written by Paula Góes With their herbs, gestures, prayers and comforting words, the “doctors of the people” are an important element of Brazilian popular culture and religious syncretism. Folk healers are found throughout the country, but play a special role in remote areas, where medical professionals are scarce and allopathic medicine is inaccessible. In a […]