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    A Flower in the Dust

    Saturday, October 11th, 2008

    Timor-Leste is saving its own life, with little insight or assistance from the outside world. But like a bright flower in an arid land, this sudden outburst of life is an arresting sight. Or would be, if the world would stop to look.

    The View From There

    Saturday, October 11th, 2008

    [This week's Communications column for the Vanuatu Independent.]
    I spent a couple of weeks last month in Timor-Leste, the world’s youngest nation. I’d gone to lend a hand to civil society there, to apply a few of the lessons learned in Vanuatu to the communications needs of this nascent nation.
    The lessons learned were mostly mine.
    Five years [...]