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Thorkil Sonne was the technical director of a Danish telecommunications company when his son Lars was diagnosed with autism, at the age of three. As Lars grew up Sonne began to see unusual abilities in his son that he looked for in his own employees and had an idea that convinced him to leave his job, mortgage his house and take a two-day accounting course.
“Why wait for others to fight Ebola?”
So asks Mike Feerick, Founder and CEO of ALISON, the world’s first massive open online course (MOOC) platform. Providing 600 free educational courses to over 4 million people, with 250,000 in West Africa, his call to action is rooted in common sense as much as the social imperative.
The New Year and its resolutions come with a refreshing sense that we can live better. Whether driven by the guilt and expense of Christmas or the simple turn of the calendar, we each resurface with an individual vision of a new way of life.
Should we feel sorry for Africa? It's a question that tags along behind me on my journey from Cairo to Cape Town. At the various hubs where travellers gather, it is alluded to through anecdotes and theories, but is never asked directly. In some cases it is the reason for coming, and often the question is asked long before arrival, entrenched in us from the first fistful of coppers that we drop in the Trócaire box.