FN: Frederick Noronha’s blog

John Eric Gomes, the never-say-die campaigner from Porvorim, wrote in to point to Praja.org, which has a BMC-Praja Online Complaint Management System. Can Goa replicate this?

Fishing Boat
Originally uploaded by chris_wilson.

Can we move from BytesForAll to PhotosForAll? (Alongside is Chris Wilson’s photo from Africa, thanks to his Flickr.com page.

Please see PhotosForAll: Looking at the unseen face of our planet… which is at
this URL.

Earlier called PhotosForDevelopment, but now have had it’s name changed to reflect wider coverage beyond just India. Please feel free to join this network, share your (suitable) photos there, and copy ones which you would like to from here.

Thanks to all those who offered their early support: Chris Wilson who wrote, “Nice idea, but why only India? I have some photos from the recent Aidworld trip to Ghana at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_wilson/ which people
working in development (especially in Africa) might be interested in, all under Creative Commons license.”

And also: jeansack2004 who wrote, “This is an excellent initiative for IT in Development. I hope that this site will also welcome photos with adequate metadata labels from the SARC region: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka all have wonderful It initiatives to encourage development in a variety of communities. How are these photos being indexed for searchability? One problem is that professional photographers may not chose to post their pictures for free use. Another huge photo library in health and development is available from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs. Your group might remind bytesforall readers of this repository that includes communications programmes around the world. Here is the link to their July newsletter: www.photoshare.org/jul06new.php. “

There are 56 photos there at the moment, but we hope to scale up. Certainly looks do-able.

Here’s what Dr Cornal DaCosta has to say about Goanet in the latest issue of GoanVoiceUK:

The Football World Cup tournament has unsurprisingly generated many posts on Goanet. One line of thought asked why India does not produce footballers of the calibre of many small nations as represented by this year’s tournament? The responses have been varied including the lament that football crazy Goa is not entitled to send a team. Others have claimed that, India has excelled in field hockey many times and should concentrate on this game rather than football. GV(UK) readers are invited to provide their views on this and other matters.

Is there something called “a rock solid Christian moral code?” Discussion on this theme has been ongoing for some time but there are some new considerations currently being examined in this controversial theme.

There is much on Goanet about the Konkani stage in Goa and elsewhere. An unusual performance as a disabled girl by Rosy Alvares in Mario Menezes’ tiatr receives many plaudits and is definitely worth finding out much more about it.

Whether pupils should wear school uniforms or not is an ongoing controversy the world over. Now, Goa seems to be gripped by this issue but with an unusual twist. Tension has emerged between those who seem happy with Indian attire and those wanting western attire in schools.

Domnic Fernandes presents an insight into life in the 1950s and 1960s in his excellent piece on the Cuckoo. This time, Domnic has been good enough to present his material in Konkani but with an English translation. Clearly, this is helpful when a command of Konkani may not be that sound among some GV (UK) readers.

Finally, do read a scholarly article by Priyamvada Gopal of Cambridge University. Apart from Goanet, this article has appeared in several sources and is well worth reading for much thought about revisionist British Imperial history. The title of her essay is “Imperial apologists peddle poisonous fairy tale.” Readers’ comments on this piece would be very welcome to Goanet administration.

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