Big Wide World

Highlights, recommendations, lessons and links from this week’s Positive Change International Careers Conference at LSE.

Each year in South East Asia, the months from June through October see monsoon rains, consisting of torrential daily rainfall. This is a predicable annual event in Cambodia, where 75% of the country lies no more than 100m above sea level, and sophisticated irrigation systems and reservoirs were built a thousand years ago. As increasing population, tourism and industrialisation hamper Cambodia’s ability to manage flooding, what can we in the UK still learn from Cambodia about flood management?

“What is Twitter?” I was asked the other day in work, with the emphasis on the is, said in the rather exasperated tone of someone who has been hearing all about this Twitter thing on the BBC and, quite reasonably, just doesn’t get what all the fuss is about when they’ve only just buckled under the pestering of their mates and joined Facebook.