Hi all, and again sorry for another extended leave of absence. I’ve just got back from overseeing communications at a UK Department for International Development workshop in Bangladesh. This was a really fascinating event as it brought together movers and shakers from the development world in Asia who are working on many important projects. These range from tackling climate change and its impact on the poor in India, to helping to improve the lives of ultra-poor people on temporary islands that form on large rivers in the north of Bangladesh.

Finding new and interesting ways to record the messages from the event was perhaps the most interesting part of the job for me – as I know it’s key to ensuring that the good work they’re doing gets taken up and continued, both by other governments and by international development agencies.

I also got the chance to visit one of the projects and get some communications work done in the field. More on this within the next couple of days – as by then Scriptoria’s team will have put together a short multimedia presentation/video based on this to take you on a trip around one of these islands and see the work being done there.

All the best,

Jim