by Pamela Whitby | Feb 2, 2011 | Stories
For parents over, give-or-take, the age of the 35 the ease and familiarity with which children use technology today is at best perplexing and at worst terrifying. Now, according to the editorial in the latest issue of Psychologies magazine, there is some evidence to...
by Pamela Whitby | Dec 15, 2010 | Stories
Recently I started blogging for Better Cities Now, a relatively new site that describes itself as providing “news and insights for the people that run cities”. It is an interesting concept and thought it would offer a forum to write a about a recent trip...
by Pamela Whitby | Nov 7, 2010 | Stories
The energy in Vietnam is palpable. In a place where not more that 20 years ago towns and cities teemed with bicycles, the roads of Vietnam now pulse with scooters carrying everybody from heavily pregnant women to babies sandwiched between their parents, middle-aged...
by Pamela Whitby | Nov 1, 2010 | Stories
This Friday (November 5, 2010) I’m off to Vietnam on a fact-finding field trip. My journey begins in Ho Chi Minh city where we set off to Can Tho, the main city of the Mekong Delta. From here we will visit the Soc Trang Province where I’ll be meeting...
by Pamela Whitby | Oct 15, 2010 | Stories
Africa is organised and ready for business in agriculture. But Africa must call the shots in any deal done with European partners. This was the underlying message from Dr Lindiwe Sibanda , one of three African members who sat on the 10-strong Montpellier Panel, an...
