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December 1, 2011

DGC student Rumeet Toor is named one of Canada's Most Powerful Women for 2011

Toor joins a community of 584 women who have received the Top 100™ Award, recognizing the highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in Canada. Winners are selected based on their strategic vision and leadership, their organization’s financial performance, and their commitment to their communities.

Toor continues to successfully integrate her business and doctoral studies with her passion for driving global change through education. Over the past six years, she has contributed to school building initiatives in Africa and South America. In 2010, her vision for enabling access to higher learning opportunities and training for educators in Africa led to the founding of The Toor Centre for Teacher Education (www.thetoorcentre.com)in the rural community of Nzeveni, Kenya.

The Canada’s Most Powerful Woman: Top 100 Awards is Canada’s most recognizable Award for the country’s highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. The 28 year old social entrepreneur, educator, and doctoral student will be celebrated December 1, 2011, at the Top 100 Awards Gala Dinner at the Allstream Centre in Toronto. The theme of this year’s Summit is the Power of Connected Leadership. Details are available at top100women.ca.

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Shaping the Global Conversation Speakers Series 2011-2012- More events coming soon!

Past DGC events:

Regardless of Frontiers: the Principles of World Communication

with Ted Magder

Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication New York University

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, includes the first clear enunciation of a right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right, according to Article 19, “includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” This talk will situate Article 19 within the various legal and regulatory principles that underpin the movement of media and cultural artifacts across borders as they appear in the most significant supranational agreements and instruments, including treaties, covenants, protocols, declarations, and charters. These agreements date back to the creation of the International Telegraph Union in 1865 and the Universal Postal Union in 1874, arguably two of the earliest examples of the thicket of international institutions that shape contemporary politics and social life, and include such contemporary agreements as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the General Agreement of Trade in Services under the administration of the WTO. The talk will highlight the recurring principles that animate these agreements and trace key features in the debate over the management and ethics of world communication.

Ted Magder is currently an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.  His research focuses on the legal and regulatory regimes that influence the flow of both media and culture across borders.

 

Dynamics of Democratic Governance: India in the World Today

Dr. Rajesh Tandon, Speaker, Founder & Chief Functionary, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

The 9% growth rate of India in recent years is to be viewed in the context of mere 1% growth in Human Development. What are the democratic governance opportunities and deficits in India today as it joins the emerging markets? How does India play out its democratic credentials in the world today, as it sits on the high table of G20?

Dr Rajesh Tandon is founder-president of Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), an international centre for learning and promotion of participation and democratic governance. An electronics engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, he completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and after teaching there left to pursue his PhD in Organisational Science at Cleveland University. The University of Victoria, Canada, awarded Dr. Tandon the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) in June 2008. In 2010, he became the first Indian to be inducted to the International Adult and Continuing Education (IACE) Hall of Fame (class of 2010).

For nearly 30 years Dr Tandon has advocated and promoted the twin processes of collectivisation and learning for empowerment and inclusion in areas ranging from right to know, control over natural resources, gender mainstreaming, citizen leadership, accountable local self-governance, global solidarity and responsive civil society in India, South Asia and beyond. Building alliances and partnerships among diverse sectors in societal development is another current area of his work.

Article on the DGC Program in The Bulletin

 

Please visit the Munk School of Global Affairs Website for more information on this seminar and how to register.