How does your country measure up? 180 countries – 180 scores The perceived levels of public sector corruptionin 180 countries/territories around the world. Executive Summary Two years into the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) reveals that corruption levels have stagnated worldwide. Despite commitments on paper, 131 countries have made no significant…
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Surviving in a healthy Suriname eyesonsuriname.com Amsterdam, January 20, 2022– That we cannot just and simply understand and understand each other well will not really surprise anyone who thinks about it a bit. This is not only the case in politics and our political system, but also on the football pitch, in the field of culture or…
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São Paulo, 21 January 202– Olinda Bonturi Bolsonaro, the mother of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has died early Friday in the city of São Paulo after being hospitalized last Monday. She was 94. With regret [I announce] the passing of my dear mother. May God welcome you in his infinite goodness. At this moment I…
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Zaouli or the Zaouli mask dance is a traditional dance in the center of Côte d’Ivoire in the Sassandra-Marahoué district, the region of the Guro-speaking people. The dance is based on a very fast movement of the legs, while the upper part of the body appears immobile or moves only slowly horizontally. The masks used…
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The next level: Web 3.0 eyesonsuriname.com Amsterdam, January 20, 2021– At a recent Zoom conference, Humphrey Polanen from Palo Alto, the heart of California’s Silicon Valleypatiently explains that traditional and ordinary websites have had their day and are far outdated. Web1.0 is from twenty, twenty-five years ago,” he says, “a relic and dinosaur of the 1990s.…
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Suriname present ? Amsterdam, January 22nd 2022– The Government of the United States in Washington DC has chosen the City of Los Angeles in the State of California to host the next Summit of the Americas the week of June 6 this year after the event was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.…
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Initiative Women on Waves Rebecca Gomperts, (*Paramaribo 29 juli 1966) is a Surinamese Dutch physician who was named among the 100 most influential people in the world. She studied medicine and visual arts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating Gomperts became an abortion doctor and sailed with the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, as its doctor…
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Revolution in Suriname ? MIT Technology Review / James Temple Amsterdam, January 6, 2021– No way to escape today. Whether you are in Timbuktu or Antarctica, but in addition to climate change, a broad sustainable energy – but especially the digital and educational – transformation policy is a necessity for countries that want to experience…
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Example for Suriname ? Redactie ICT mag. // Anton JieSamFoek Amsterdam, January 4th 2022 — Planning an IT strategy and fundamental changing for social and development, with the pandemic fresh in mind and still going strong worldwide, poses a twofold question for countries as well as for companies and ( governmental ) organizations. How can…
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Current system does not work by: educationalcommunity the netherlands Amsterdam, January 4, 2022– Many educationalists seem to be jealous and squint at Harold Bekkering: “That’s because as a neuroscientist I work in the educational domain. Moreover, I am against a system determined by cognitive development alone. It is about meaningful learning, where we teach children to…
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