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Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens) is a non-profit organisation focuses on establishing children’s libraries in remote areas of eastern Indonesia.
We aim to encourage and nurture children’s interest in reading by providing access to good books. We believe this is critical for a child’s education, and broadens their horizons and opportunities.
At Taman Bacaan Pelangi [Rainbow Reading Gardens], we encourage children to dream big. And books will inspire, broaden their horizon and motivate them to reach their dream.
Through our programs, we also want to develop their skills. Kids will then realize their potentials and be a true star in the field. In the future, they will be able to give positive contribution to the local community, be the agent of change and source of inspiration for others. And they will be the ones who help break the cycle of poverty and change lives.
Taman Bacaan Pelangi [Rainbow Reading Gardens] also acts as a place where people can share and contribute. The more people contribute, the more children in remote areas in Eastern Indonesia will have access to books and develop their skills.
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Programme Officer, Adaptation Programme, Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University. As an ethnographer, I have explored gendered and generational aspects of parenting and family life; affect, embodied action and identity making of children, youth, and violent men. I have been involved in several government investigations on men, gender equality and gender-based violence.
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An experienced qualitative researcher specializing in sexuality and gender identity in South Asia.
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Martina (BA, MPhil) is a PhD Candidate at the Deparment of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She specializes in gender, sexual and reproductive health, time, inequality and development. Martina has worked as a consultant for the Human Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the United Nations Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC).
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Acting Director of Iriss, a charitable company that promotes positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland's social services.
Improving lives through knowledge, evidence and innovation.
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Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Social Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada.
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Rebekah graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). Her thesis on the historical and political development of the Internet protocols (TCP/IP) won the Society of the College prize. She spent two years working at a law firm and with a digital rights NGO in the United States prior to Cambridge. Rebekah graduated in 2015 with an MPhil in Technology Policy from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. She started a PhD in October 2015 in the Cambridge Sociology department.
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Dr. Jennifer A. Delaney is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education at the University of Illinois. Dr. Delaney’s research focuses on higher education policy, with an emphasis on finance. She has published extensively in the areas of student financial aid, state budgeting for higher education, and on related topics of higher education policy. She worked for the US Department of Education and the US Congress on issues of student financial aid with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance from 2000-2002. From 2003-2005, she was a policy analyst with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, where she contributed to the Measuring Up reports, state-by-state report cards on higher education performance. She also served as a consultant for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education (under US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) in 2005-2006. Dr. Delaney served as chair of the Council for Public Policy in Higher Education from 2011-2014 with the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2014, she was the Faculty Fellow for the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Previously she was an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Delaney earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Stanford University, an Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.
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PhD researchers and policy advisor at University of Cambridge. Looking at online social interactions and future use of virtual assistants.