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Dear all,As I am still working on a storified account of the Sida talk from earlier this week below is a slightly belated and shorter weekly link review-nonetheless, there is some great stuff, or, more...
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Tech4Rural, box thinking & reflections on innovative ideas meeting...
Thanks to Jacob’s and Jonas’ invitation I participated in a very interesting and in many ways insightful event in Copenhagen yesterday, organized by colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark,...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 107
Dear all,This week's review is slightly belated again, but I spent an interesting day in Copenhagen yesterday and focused my energy 'offline'. As always, some new resources, a great discussion on...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 95
Hello all,Welcome to another weekly link review! This week's development section is focusing on a really broad range of topics-from news reporting in Philadelphia to why the ICRC does not like computer...
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Dear all,We had a great two-day seminar in Malmö last Friday and Saturday and it was fantastic that a many ComDev students participated in lively debates on-site, online and very often in-between. In...
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Getting ready for #smwcph, Social Media Week in Copenhagen
Dear all,The Social Media Week in Copenhagen is about to start and I will be involved in two very interesting and also very different events on Tuesday and Thursday, the 18th and 20th. Since there is a...
View ArticleNick Kristof, professors with smart minds and lots of impact are already...
Nick Kristof’s latest New York Times column with the telling title ‘Smart Minds, Slim Impact’in the print edition about the disappearance of public intellectuals and need for better academic policy...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 109
Dear all,There was a simple reason why there was a short hiatus in the link review last week and I wish I could insert some fancy policy-influencing, mind-changing education or undercover field...
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Hello all,As we are approaching the 100th link review we have another great week with great pieces written by some great friends!This week features IDS' new digital repository; a new report violence...
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ICT4D after Snowden
From the Snowden leaks to the ‘deep state’-why the surveillance state is an issue for development. Edward Snowden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Snowden-2.jpg)Maybe the...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 110
Dear all,This slightly more comprehensive link review makes for excellent end-of-beginning-of week reading! And best of all, it is a Ukraine-free round-up ;)! After a few announcements on crowd-sourced...
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Performing Peace-building: Conferences, Rituals and the Role of Ethnographic...
Hi all,It is always great to see a final product after a long and winding publication process! As part of a special double issue of the IDS Bulletin entitled 'New Perspectives from PhD Field Research',...
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Links & Contents I Liked 111
Hello all,Finally a weekly link review that's pretty much on time ;)! New research on peacebuilding rituals, old insights into Nepal development politics and how the ADB is only 'open' when it suits....
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 112
Hello all,A packed weekly review with a special 'Development +' section that focuses on tech & digital issues...but let's start with a great photo essay on Western people doing mundane things...
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100 weekly link reviews later: Why I still like curating #globaldev content
It is a nice coincidence that my 100th weekly development link review and a surprisingly widely shared curated link post on 9 post-Haiyan articles (which has grown to 11 links by now) have been...
View ArticleAidnography in Stellenbosch & Cape Town
Hi all,I will be part of our ComDev/Glocal Classroom team that is going to travel to South Africa for a conference on ICT and education organized by Stellenbosch University as well as a seminar with...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 113
Hi all,This week is a more essential and shorter link review as I am getting ready for my trip to South Africa. Great food for thought from MSF, WhyDev, on funding the revolution, aid in Kenya &...
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Post-conference reflections on 'Transforming education through technological...
I am back from Stellenbosch and Cape Town. The Glocal Classroom conference and ComDev seminar provided interesting food for thought for a researcher who is a relatively new professional in the field of...
View ArticleBurkas, ballots & the unbearable lightness of democratic rituals
I think it was the moment the elections in Afghanistan got ‘buzzfeeded’ (30 Powerful Photos From Afghanistan’s Historic 2014 Election) that I decided to write a short comment around the issues of...
View ArticleLinks & Contents I Liked 114
Dear all,The link review is back!A trip to South Africa, quick reflections on Afghanistan's elections (see posts below) and some work in Sweden later, the link review is back-a bit more comprehensive...
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