We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Gourevich’s book on the 1994 genocide goes so far beyond just a history, it almost feels timeless. This half-hour is amazing–take the time to watch it to see just how attainable conquering AIDS in Africa really is. ...Tags: Tags: Afric I’m just about complete with my preparations for my trip to Rwanda. It’s been a whirlwind 6 weeks from when I first was asked to go.

Blogging catches on in Africa, despite technology limitations » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire:"In a sign that the medium is maturing, Were said that many of the sites saw a surge in traffic from in Kenya in the days after the plane crash.“More More Kenyans are looking to blogs for news and information, like people do in the States,” said Were, who first began experimenting with blogs as a ...Tags: Tags: NPtech NPBlog

This morning I had the pleasure (and some anxiety, to be honest) of presenting to the SANGONeT Conference taking place this week and next in South Africa.  I also use a story of a friend and colleague, Leah Williams , to help highlight the role individuals play in moving and informing the social media strategy and practice of their organizations (her story of discovering social media tools on her own and applying her knowledge and experiences to social media application for the Women’s Resource Center ). My presentation includes some brief highlights from research done in the US and the UK around social media use by nonprofit organizations (including the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey and the eCampaigning Report ). 

This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy .   They describe the theme of 'knowledge economy' here:  "The emergence of economies based on the production, distribution, use of knowledge and information was charted by the OECD (1996) in the report "The Knowledge Economy".  Economies  are more and more becoming reliant  upon an effective gathering and utilization of  knowledge and the creation and sharing of knowledge is rapid in the new economy. OECD suggests that innovation has changed

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. But, in Africa, where we work, there are very, very few jobs in the formal private sector. All of the other people are involved in what we call the informal sector. About three years ago, I watched a fabulous documentary series sponsored by the Skoll Foundation called The New Heroes . The series featured stories of 12 social entrepreneurs including Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, the co-Founders of KickStart (which was called ApproTEC

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa.  The video bloggers Marcus Prior their spokesperson from East Africa.   This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger   which has only intensified with the financial crisis.   There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting.  In the last year or so, I've gotten

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi In quot;Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Jim Craner , MapTogether Geographic Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training

Via GlobalVoices , information about the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 1 million people have fled the province of North Kivu. (Newsfeed Welcome to Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, where we are building a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. From Newsfeed here .) An An

in the information age and the rapid and flexible flow of information is critical to the business of government, to commerce, to education, and to individual development. These groups do share and coordinate their efforts in various ways, but it is still difficult to get accurate and timely information online about who is doing what work, where, and what work is successful ? These development This is the first of a series of blog posts we?re re

Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive . They will then distribute them throughout Africa . MFFO Underwear For Africa 27943 Seco Canyon RD #533 Santa Clarita, CA 91350 And, while I'm on the topic of creative ways to support projects in the Africa. Some of the best grassroots fundraising for projects in developing countries take the form of clothing donation campaigns. Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts .