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Posted on July 2, 2013 - W. Robert Pearson in
Pearson at CSP

This month, in honor of IREX’s 45th anniversary, Allen Kassof, a founder of IREX, gives us a fascinating account of the power of...

Posted on February 1, 2013 - W. Robert Pearson in

Heisenberg's famous uncertainty theory in quantum physics  states that either the location or the speed of an object can be determined but not both simultaneously.  That’s the way some...

Posted on November 2, 2012 - W. Robert Pearson in Youth
African Youth Volunteer with the Bus Project in Liberia

Yesterday, USAID launched their first-ever ...

FA Budget Pie

The Thanksgiving holiday in America gives us all a chance to reflect on gratitude, on generosity, and on reaching out to those in need.  As we Americans from every background recall our...

Public Libraries can be a wonderful place for sustainable development.

IREX has been working with public access to information / telecenters for more than 15 years. In that time we’ve encountered many of the difficulties. How do the telecenters continue...

Some of the American, oil-company-based engineers with whom I play basketball in Atyrau, Kazakhstan understand what “Peace Corps” service means—thanks in part to its...

There is an old Moldavian proverb that says: your life has been worthwhile if you have built a house, raised a son, planted a tree, and dug a well.

A survey of the latest discussions in the library blogosphere quickly reveals that public libraries in many parts of the world are...