On the fringe of the Burma border with Thailand, children play outside the straw hut school in their refugee camp. On my first night at this camp, mosquitoes were biting and buzzing around my face and legs, and the refugee camp director invited me to teach some English to some students. I will remember this.
It was nearly midnight. I had driven for four hours in a bus, then on the back of a pickup truck, then on the back of a scooter, to arrive in this dusty camp of Burmese refugees.
I walk into the grass hut and sitting around a table on low benches are at least a dozen children, pencils in hand, workbooks open, and ready to learn English.
Douglas Crets is an intelligence officer and expert network builder for the social web. Using his training in journalism, digital media, anthropology and the humanities, he creates social media research projects for and about the leading social web entrepreneurs of today. His company, dB C Media provides companies and individuals with data, behavioral research studies, branding advice, consulting on social media execution and meaningful media content to create efficient interactions with consumers, and influencers and on the web, so that brands, companies and individuals can form relationships that matter. His traveling takes him to at least 12 countries a year. He speaks Russian and understands Chinese.
