Afghanistan Watch: New Year, New Start

December 31, 2007

New Year, New Start

I wanted to wish you all a happy New Year, and to apologize for the lack of action in the past few weeks. This month I left my position at The Century Foundation in order to work with a startup technology company that is making solar energy more accessible, reliable, and efficient. I am still committed to Afghanistan, and I plan to continue managing Afghanistan Watch -- though the website will undoubtedly evolve.

I have already had a number of excellent discussions with people about what shape and direction the new Afghanistan Watch will take. There are a lot of possibilities, and I'm excited about the opportunity to make this a more expansive and collaborative forum, and I welcome your feedback in this regard...

Having said this, I may not be able to offer a quick reply to your email -- I am travelling for the rest of the month and will have only intermittent access to email.

If all goes well, we plan to launch the new Afghanistan Watch this March. In the meantime, Bipasha Ray will be curating Afghanistan Watch during my absence. Bipasha is a fine journalist and longtime editor of The Project on Defense Alternative's "War Report" -- an indispensible resource. She's great at finding useful data and separating the wheat from the chaff. In the coming month I hope you appreciate her keen eye and thoughtful commentary. Her brief bio is below:

Bipasha Ray is research associate and web editor at the Project on Defense Alternatives, where she works with issues related to Iraq, Afghanistan, terrorism and U.S. military and defense policy. She edits War Report, a web compilation of news, reports, analyses and official documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and Occupation Distress on the impact of the wars on U.S. armed forces. Previously she was a reporter at The Associated Press in Boston, where she covered issues ranging from post-9/11 airport security to the Boston Catholic Church clergy abuse crisis. She has a MA in International Politics from Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Thanks to everyone for all your support over the years -- and be in touch. Sincerely, Carl

Posted by Carl Robichaud on December 31, 2007 at 03:09 PM | Permalink

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