Paula Góes
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Multi-Lingual EditorBrazilian journalist and translator living in London since 2002, GV editor and proud volunteer translator for the Global Voices Lingua Project in Portuguese. I believe the peace of the world starts with us, and that everyone has a role in promoting it. Be a better person, and if everyone does the same, the world will soon be a better place.
Latest posts by Paula Góes
31 December 2011
Brazil: “We Have Overtaken the United Kingdom's GDP. So What?”
The news, published in the international press and echoed by the country's media, filled nationalist Brazilians with with pride and optimism, and left those who analysed the numbers more closely concerned. Bloggers ponder the meaning of being the world's sixth largest country in terms of Gross Domestic Product, and occupying the 84th position in Human Development Index.
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16 December 2011
Education
Internet en el Aula [es] invites everyone to take part of “The future of education” blogging carnival. The main issues revolve around the following questions: “How do you think education will be in 10 or 20 years? Will we still use textbooks? Will the use of digital media online be widespread? Will teachers and students change roles and ways of working? Will there be different learning and assessment methodologies? Will the appearance and layout of classrooms and school areas be different?”
14 November 2011
Comoros
The nomansland blog publishes a post [fr] stating: “Due to its geostrategic position and its socio-economic and political difficulties, the Comoros archipelago has become a hub for international drug trafficking to Europe and Indian Ocean”.
10 November 2011
Tunisia
Writing about the 2011 African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) held on November 10-11 in Tunis, EVINA in the africapress.over-blog.com provides possible reasons [fr] for the increase in the number of participants: 55 people attended the first edition that took place in Dakar (Senegal) in November 2008, and 250 participants gathered in Yaounde, Cameroon in 2010.
Next time we will be there again :)