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Hello all,As some of the more political science-minded among you have probably noticed, this week's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) got cancelled. I wasn't planning...
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Reflections on #virtualapsa2012 & using HangOut for academic events
Last week, a core group of participants of the original APSA panel 40-3 'Issues of and responses to Internet governance' decided to take advantage of modern technology and try out a virtual panel via...
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The role of graduate studies in the 'flawed development system'- a reply to...
As development students submit their theses and finish their programs, Karen Attiah’s post ‘Who Gets to Criticize the International Aid System? Not Grad Students, Apparently’ is an interesting reminder...
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Hello all,In addition to two new blog posts quite a few interesting stories ended up on my link list this week. From great collections of resources for studying/reading development to immersions,...
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Hello all,A nice selection of good reads found its way on this week's list: We start with three contributions on capitalism and development: The pitfalls of the 'Green Economy', privatising entire...
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How the EU is creating the need for humanitarian volunteers
We as academics and bloggers often criticise small projects, organisations or individual initiatives. But one of the unique strategic skills that only people in large aid organisation seem to posses is...
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Hello all,This is one of those weeks where scrolling all the way down to an excellent speech by Makerere professor Mahmood Mamdani on the state of research at the university and an excellent...
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Hello all,Welcome to another weekly link review!Guiding questions for this collection: Who won the 'alternative Nobel Prize' this year?Are immersions voluntourism for 'adults' and if so, does it...
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Hello all,Sometimes I wish there were more days to a week...I have been prevented from 'proper' blogging due to some academic publication deadlines and other projects. However, there is always time for...
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The Kony 2012 video franchise, or: Invisible Children’s latest ‘Move’
It was interesting to watch Oprah’s Next Chapter on Sunday with Jason Russell. As the format suggests, this was all about Jason with a particular focus on his breakdown after the Kony 2012 video went...
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Hello all,Invisible Children are back with a new video/documentary-and the blogosphere is not exactly exploding with reactions...still, if you haven't done yet, check out Tom Murphy's post (and maybe...
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Hello all,This has been a great week for picking up interesting stuff from around the blogosphere! Some insights from Nepal, Afghanistan and Cyprus first before a substantial section on reflections on...
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How Do We Help? (book review)
There is a fair amount of competition for attention on introductory texts on the history and concepts of‘development’. Since a new academic year has started recently and students (and teachers...) are...
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Hello all,Maybe I should rename this post to 'links I dislike', because there are really a few links I like for the fact that I can disagree with them, e.g. referring to Rio Tinto as a 'shared value'...
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The rough guide for setting up fake-ish academic conferences
Like many academics, I receive invitations to obscure global conferences on a fairly regular basis. They usually go hand in hand with links to so-called ‘open access journals’. Since I may get into...
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Hello all,African governance issues, personal branding, reflections on the 'purity' of life & development, the Post-2015 development agenda and a noteworthy new report on how teens (who may be...
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OLPC in Ethiopia: The thin line between digital innovation, cargo cult and...
It is quite remarkable that the article on One Laptop Per Child’s experiment in Ethiopia at MIT's Technology Reviewis framed in a very technological, maybe even ‘nerdy’ language around hardware and...
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Links & Contents I Liked 50
Hello all,Welcome to the 50th anniversary post of my weekly link review!Before I jump to the 'business as usual' part, I'd like to say thank you to all of you for visiting and re-visiting this humble...
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Is Coca-Cola a social enterprise now? Why ‘development’ needs to be more...
When CocaCola launched its new website Coca Cola Journey a few days ago, marketing and social media experts and even journalists at the New York Times were full of delight about the future of brand...
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Hello all,This looks like a nice link round-up of the week. There are 'development news' featuring interesting reports and more factual stuff, followed by 'development opinion'-from a 'polemic against...
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