About us
Ina having fun
Hello, we’re the Bookers! We’re an international family, currently in Germany. As this website is about our work and travels, you should know what we do. Between us, we have training and experience working in these fields:
- Nursing and services for the disabled,
- Social work, including women’s programs,
- Agriculture,
- Health services research,
Dave on a sunny day
- Construction,
- Adventure sports guiding,
- Project management and fund-raising,
- Website development,
- Documentary film-making,
- Food aid logistics, and even
- Juggling and puppet theater (well, that wasn’t work) !
2009/Dave: I’m on my way out of Europe now, finishing up 7 years of work with The Cochrane Collaboration (makes the world’s largest collection of systematic reviews in medicine), now as the Director of Online Community Development – a nice title for an ex-manager (by choice) moving on to a less-stressful period getting my hands dirty in Asia, Nepal to be specific. There’s no current CV or anything like that on this site now. Just a blog (see the homepage), where you can follow my wanderings and thoughts. Thanks for visiting!
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Here’s an older “I’m so great” paragraph with some pre-2002 history, if you really want to know: Dave Booker has a complex history. Born in Ithaca, New York (U.S.A), he has lived and worked in a dozen countries, thus the web site’s name, “Nomad.” Originally trained as an agriculturalist, he followed a dream into Africa in the early 90s with the Peace Corps and two voluntary organizations to set up systems helping poor farmers better survive droughts and dislocation. The tools and technologies of this agricultural training caught Dave’s imagination. Eventually he wandered back to graduate school at Cornell University in Ithaca, and the Institute for Mass Communications in New Delhi, Inida, earning a Masters degree in 1996, in the somewhat obscure field of Development Communications. After a short stint at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., he was in Africa again. This time he was the manager of monitoring and evaluation for a food security program covering the Sahel countries of Africa. The heavy database design and programming was so fascinating, that, upon return to the U.S., Dave took further courses in database work and web design, and in 1999 Nomad Digital was born as a web site development business, providing affordable sites to small businesses.
All these travels, were, of course, not without R&R and development of interesting hobbies. Dave is an avid mountaineer and photographer, as well as a continual student of the world’s religious traditions. International travel also taught him the skills of “getting by” as so many are able to on limited financing in the developing world. Dave has also been fascinated for years with adaptive technologies of for the disabled, stemming from dealing with his own visual disability. Finally,
Look at Nomad Digital’s section for travelers and the Ends of the Earth Journal, for some great stories from a few of Dave’s travels.