I'm honored to have been awarded a scholarship as a conference attendee and will be speaking on the panel: "Hey teacher, leave those kids alone!  The decentralization of expertise and the creation of community knowledge bases" on Tuesday afternoon.

I never in my life thought I would be attending a conference like this much less speaking on a panel!   Although I am open-minded and tend to learn quickly when it comes to any type of tool for social change, I am not a techie by any means.  Going in, I am bracing myself for many of the discussion topics to be completely over my head (I don't even know what the $100 laptop is referring to) but am eager to learn more so that I can bring back knowledge to enhance my work at Amnesty International USA and Never Again.  Being interested in transnational human rights advocacy, I think it's really important for me to understand online and techological tools because face-to-face or phone interaction across the globe is quite costly!