December 2011
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Dec 11th
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devonwood: We just wanna hold this up every time someone puts out one of those twitterable stats or says their project has “a 100% success rate.”
Dec 11th
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Lost in the Sahel
cubiculo: (beginning excerpt from Paul Salopek’s beautiful National Geographic piece on the Sahel, recounting his kidnapping in Darfur and the issues of the area. Read the whole thing. Apart from the problematic “we had become Sahelian” appropriation, it’s gorgeous. I want - no, I need to write like this.) The road was not really a road. Its two ruts led into Darfur, to the war in western...
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“One event that illustrated the gap between the Africa of conjecture and the real...”
– - From a series of 11 tweets by novelist Teju Cole on the #firstworldproblems meme HT @SolarSister via The Atlantic  (via tumblingfromthecave)
Dec 7th
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nerdorabled: Daily Show interview with Liberian Women’s Rights Activist Leymah Gbowee What a fantastic interview - such a powerful speaker and figure for women’s rights. We <3 her. (Canadians, this interview is up online on the Comedy Network.()
Dec 7th
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Second Hand Clothing is a Big Deal
cubiculo: tumblingfromthecave: Trade between the two countries is modest, totalling just under $15 million in 2010. Canadian exports (primarily used clothing) were worth just over $11 million, while imported Ugandan goods (primarily vanilla beans, coffee, tea and cobalt) totalled $3.7 million.  For anyone who had questions about the impact of second hand clothing on recipient countries, the...
Dec 6th
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Liberian Artist Ehi Obinyan
37thstate: An energetic and free spirited artist, Ehi Obinyan has developed mastery for the combined use of watercolour and gouache. Ehi is a product of the famous Auchi Polytechnic where he graduated with distinctions. He is eclectic in his style and distinct in his chosen theme. Passion and zeal rule his brushes as he creates unforgettable works of art. Ehi recently moved to San Francisco...
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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An exciting time in Liberia - and we're not...
(This is a post by Matt Jones, originally posted to our blog on November 29th.) Right now is an exciting time in Liberia. Completely apart from the presidential elections – the country’s first election to be primarily administered by the National Elections Commission since the end of the civil war in 2003 – there are a lot of exciting development projects underway. Despite continuing to rank...
Dec 5th
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un-library: INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY By resolution 40/212 (A/RES/40/212), the General Assembly invited Governments to observe annually on 5 December, International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development.   “On International Volunteer Day, we recognize the dedication of volunteers, their spirit of service, and their wide-ranging efforts to promote the goals of the United Nations.”...
Dec 5th
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“I’ve said repeatedly that our waste is not the solution to other people’s...”
– Saundra of Good Intents on SWEDOW and the focus of charity efforts in repurposing used Western goods for developing communities. The whole piece (‘Daily Small Humiliations’) is excellent.
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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The cake test of freedom
At last week’s Jornadas SIG Libre in Girona, Ivan Sanchez of the Spanish OpenStreetmap community told me about the cake test of data freedom. What is the cake test? Easy: geographic data, or a map, is open only if someone can make you a gift of a cake with your map on it. The cake test is inspired by the dissident test and thedesert island test used by the Debian community to gauge software...
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Michael Clemens: No, BMJ, the emigration of... →
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Documents and Disasters: can proper ID save the...
This post was originally written by Kyle Knight for the Good Intents blog. Read the full piece here. —— Last summer when Bhumika Shrestha travelled to New York City to represent Nepal at the United Nations, she encountered some special questions during her layover in Doha. Shrestha, who is transgender — or, in Nepal, third-gender — presents as an elegant young woman. Her passport...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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“If ministries of health do not receive stable and predictable funding, there is...”
–  MSF International President Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria funding crisis and what needs to be done (via doctorswithoutborders)
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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“An end to poverty is being figured out by a small entrepreneur, a new NGO or an...”
– Scott Gilmore of PDT  (via tumblingfromthecave) Preach, bossman.
Dec 1st
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