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  Are you ready to unlock your creativity and achieve transformative solutions, no matter the obstacles? My new book,  Innovation Within Constraints Handbook :  Actionable ideas, techniques, and exercises for transformative solutions despite limitations,  is out now on Amazon in paperback and ebook.    To celebrate the launch, the ebook is FREE for a limited time from  January 28 to February 1, 2025 !   Why  y ou’ll  appreciate the   “ Innovation Within Constraints Handbook .” ✅   Practical techniques to turn challenges into opportunities. ✅   Step-by-step exercises to spark creativity and resilience. ✅   Real-world case studies from industries, nonprofits, and startups. ✅   Proven frameworks to help you thrive, even with limited resources.   Why  this  Handbook  is   different:   While many books focus on innovation,   this  Handbook   acknowledg es  the real-wor...

  I have joined and established a space on the writing platform Substack. It’s a platform where I can consolidate, integrate, and promulgate all of my varied writings – blogs, websites, and publication – and create new content for subscribers.    The name for my Substack is called “Nearing Completion” – in which I can share content in all forms – newsletters, journaling, poems, podcasts, articles, sketches, photographs, learnings, musings, and random views – all in one place. All my websites will continue to exist – but Substack will enable me to communicate with the subscribers of each of my websites on a more consistent and easy-to-use space.    I’ve written my first blog – provided here below – and look forward to connecting more regularly with my family, friends, readers, and supporters.    The Substack “Nearing Completion” begins  HERE  ! Much more to come. Subscribe! Spread the news!  But most of all, enjoy the content – exclusive,...

Every year since 2001, the UNESCO  World Science Day for Peace and Development has been celibrated on 10 November.    The day highlights the important role of science in society and the call to engage in publc debates on emerging scientific issues.     The theme for the 2023 World Science Day for Peace and Development is ‘Building Trust in Science.’ UNESCO acknowledges that trust in science is complex, affecting the way in which scientists conduct their work, and the way science is perceived in society.    UNESCO is celebrating the day in two major ways: 1) a roundtable called ‘Building Trust in Science at the Nexus of Science, Policy, and Society’ and 2) a ceremony for the 2023 UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.   The roundtable will be held in UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on 13 November 2023. It offers an opportunity to discuss the links between science, policy, society, and science-based policy making, particularly to g...

Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner  by Jamie Bowman (2022) is the memoir of a  legal advisor in post-conflict and emerging market countries from 2002 to 2011. It covers Kosovo, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Russian Federation, Afghanistan, Southern Sudan, Rwanda, and closes in France.  Full disclosure: I have known the author, an attorney from California, since 2006, working together in Southern Sudan. Many countries mentioned in this book, I have also worked in – and I appear in this book! The prologue introduces characters that appear throughout most chapters of the book, one of whom the author met in 2002 in Kosovo – her starting point.    Her job – mainly related to updating national laws – was not an easy one. She explains the challenges with an anecdote from her work in Ukraine. An ancient Ukranian artist had drawn a picture of an elephant, and a rather simple, little one, from a description because he had never seen one – in ...