Fill the GAP – Netherlands
My 2008 is off to a running start, with my first transatlantic flight in the second week of the new year. I’m in the Netherlands for a couple of days, meeting with Hivos, one of the sponsors of Global...
View ArticleFill the Gap II, and an update on the Kenyan situation
Firoze Manji from Fahamu and Pambazuka News gave the Fill the Gap conference a thorough overview of the current crisis in Kenya. He was last in his home country four weeks ago, shortly before the...
View ArticleVisualizing Social Networks… in Excel
In the spirit of attending OPCs – “other people’s conferences”, conferences where you’re invited, but not part of the demographic/professional group the conference is aimed at – I’m now at the...
View ArticleJennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance
For the past decade or so, there’s been a movement to bring computers, telephones and other “information and communication technology” into developing nations to increase economic development and...
View ArticleHarvard Forum: ICT4D and, and, and…
Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center are convening a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication technology and...
View ArticleHarvard Forum – what do we need to know?
Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center are convening a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication technology and...
View ArticleHarvard Forum: Focus and Faith
Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center are convening a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication technology and...
View ArticleHighlights of our workshop on ICT and Elections in Nigeria
The past two days, I’ve been participating in the first day of a two-day event on information technology and government transparency in Nigeria. It’s a conversation that’s both timely, and also a bit...
View ArticleAirplanes, Faith and Latent Networks
Earlier this week, I met with Evan Paul, a smart urban planner just out of a master’s program at MIT. He’s working with colleagues on a new idea – “Global Planning Partners”, a nonprofit intended to...
View ArticleWhat comes after election monitoring? Citizen monitoring of infrastructure.
I spent last week in Senegal at a board meeting for Open Society Foundation, meeting organizations the foundation supports around the continent. Two projects in particular stuck in my mind. One is Y’en...
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