When an NGO’s website is “live” but nobody dares to edit it, when the contact list is spread across multiple spreadsheets, or when a funded digital tool doesn’t make the team more autonomous, the issue isn’t purely technical. It’s an autonomy issue — and often a governance issue. Today, MonASBL…
I landed in Chiang Mai carrying two things: a backpack and a question I’d been circling for months—how do we “give back” in ways that are useful for local organizations and sustainable for the people who want to help? I’ve always loved the idea of showing up, rolling up sleeves,…
I left in August 2022 with my laptop and a stubborn curiosity. Two years on the roads of Asia, until May 2024. We loved the strangeness of a daily life reinventing itself: dawn markets, over-air-conditioned buses, hospitality overflowing from one cup of tea to the next. And then, amid those…
There are platforms where you “save” elephants in the morning and teach a French class in the afternoon. You pay, you post a photo, you leave with the feeling you’ve “helped.” I’ve often brushed up against that world, drawn in by its energy and urgency. Yet, when you look…
Documentation is rarely discussed. It is considered secondary, too “procedural,” not heroic enough. Yet it is what remains when the computer is put away. I have made it my guiding principle: to document is to love a project enough to be able to walk away from it. The first…