Dear World End of another year and another decade. Check out these news stories which gives us a snapshot, of what has been going on in our world this year. January EUROPE EU Nationals – Suicidal and Depressed because No Deal Brexit Likely Heavy climate of uncertainty and insecurity …
2018 WORLD NEWS
Dear World Here are a few global news highlights this year For more – please go to Twitter @BinaPattel January 2018 USA Oregon state athletes’ suicide – new mental health initiative launched to help students with depression (1) Salt Lake City Utah Teen suicides – 140% increase (2) CANADA Newfoundland …
911 – EMERGENCY
DEAR WORLD OUR WORLD IS IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY THIS IS A BIG WAKE-UP CALL WE HAVE A 911 RIGHT NOW CHECK THIS OUT – Alcohol 2016 2.8 million deaths 20% of deaths age 15 – 49 There is no safe level of drinking alcohol – Worldwide Study (Global …
Politics
Do we need to ask some simple questions about Politics? Read this –
Our World as a Business
Dear World What if our world was a real business? Who would be responsible for this business? How are we doing if our world was a business? Have we got the right people in the right place? Have we got an infrastructure that supports us all? Is this business going …
Video Games
What on earth is Video Games Day? Who comes up with this stuff? What do we need to know about Video Games? What global awareness would we benefit from knowing? What is Google and the websites relating to video games telling us? Are we ready to know more about the …
Social Media
Dear World We have Social Media Day on 30th June to celebrate the impact that social media has on global communication. (1) So what on earth is Social Media? Are we in the know about all this stuff? Who invented this booming business? Do we really understand the ins and …
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation – 6 February
Dear World – THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL. The United Nations website has a message from the Secretary General “The Sustainable Development Goals contain a specific target calling for an end to FGM. When this practice is fully abandoned, positive effects will reverberate across societies as girls and women …
INTERNET
What is the Internet? The dictionary tells us it is ‘the large system of connected computers around the world that allows people to share information and communicate with each other. (1) What are we sharing on the Internet? What are we really communicating? What are we connecting to on our computers? Next – What …