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Dear all,Due to a longer post on The Global Journal's Top 100 NGO ranking (see below) and another forthcoming piece co-written with WhyDev's Brendan Rigby, this week's link review is a bit shorter than...
View ArticleWhyDev guest post: The state of HR in development work 2013
Last week, Brendan Rigby and I published a post together over at WhyDev.org, reflecting on People in Aid’s annual report‘The State of HR in International Humanitarian and Development Organisations’. I...
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Hello all,This week, the highlights of the link review are distributed evenly across the three sections: In Development there are interesting debates on 'Generation Z' & HR, the ethics and value of...
View Article3 reasons why I didn’t blog on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Yes, the debate on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition issue showed up in my facebook and Twitter newsfeeds and some friends even sent me direct messages with links to critical comments and...
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Understanding development (book review)
It may be a bit unusual to put a disclaimer at the beginning of a review, but I have the privilege to approach the review of Understanding Development as a bit more than just a reader: Not only do I...
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Hello all,This was definitely a good week for the blogging review...it just so happens that two interesting themes emerged: First, Harvard scholar Carol Vance kicks off an interesting discussion on how...
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Are journals hindering creative academic writing & engagement with research?
tl;dr (for those who find blog posts on academic publishing too long) The focus on‘open access publishing’ and ‘better academic writing’ may be overrated when it comes to fostering creative writing,...
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Dear all,Another week is coming to an end and some interesting readings have found there way into my Inbox...after a reminder that the debate on unpaid internships in development is far from over yet...
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Is silence still golden? The curious case of Jim Kim's World Bank leadership
That's the World BankHave you heard from the World Bank recently? Or, more precisely, have you read much about the Bank recently? I haven’t. Well, that’s not entirely true: I read about the 'Big Idea...
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Hello all,First a rather technical announcement: Since I have received a few messages regarding subscription options I have updated the forms for email subscription and RSS - so you will hopefully...
View Article4 reasons why MOOCs should be discussed in international development
I have been following the debate around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for a while now. In my own imaginary Wordle cloud, the word ‘disruptive’ probably features most prominently, but this post...
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Hello all!Welcome to another great weekly link review! The 'development' section features some interesting material including whether the mistreatment of children in conflict zones is a perverse form...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 68
Dear all,I have been a bit busy this week - for all the right and good reasons - and fresh & exciting content will be added very soon! In the meantime, enjoy some great reads!Although there are...
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Paved with Good Intentions–Canada’s development NGOs from idealism to...
Strange how reality works in mysterious ways sometimes: While I had started feeling guilty that I had not started to read and review Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay’s book Paved with Good Intentions...
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Hello all,This week's review is quite an eclectic mix - including cats and sex (in the blog-appropriate form of ethnographic research on Ugandan Internet memes and a 'sex strike' of Indonesian women...
View ArticleResiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Are Joi Ito’s ‘Tools for the Coming...
I recently came across an interview in Wired magazine from mid-2012 with MIT Media Lab ‘guru’ Joi Ito onResiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming Chaos. He concluded the interview with...
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Hello all,The post-holiday week link review features some unspectacular, but very readable development related policy-issues from inequality to the conflict in the Central African Republic, new donors'...
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Hello all,It really pays off to be part of a vibrant network of development blogging friends and colleagues! Whether on Madonna's visit to Malawi, the use of consultant's in development projects, a...
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Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities (book review)
It may be a bit unusual to start a book review with the Contributors’ biographies (pp. xvi-xxvii), but to understand the context of Zachary D. Kaufman’s edited volume Social Entrepreneurship in the Age...
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Hello all,Sometimes the intro feels like more work than the actual link review...in short: as with previous weeks, there's lot of great stuff to discover. It's broadly along the 'words' and 'action'...
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