Posts Tagged ‘aid’
Vox Populi. Maybe, sort of.
For all the information swirling around about Congo these days, this map is interesting. It’s from Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, a site designed to aggregate crisis information sent by ordinary people, via emails or–here’s the specialness–SMS. Because cell phones are ubiquitous here, and virtually nothing else is, the SMS is the real key [...]
Women in Rwanda are all the rage
I seem to always miss the proper news. In the parliamentary elections held earlier this week–only the second election in the country since the genocide–52 percent of the newly elected were women, making Rwanda the first country in the world to have a majority female parliament. In his speech at MIT on Thursday, Rwanda’s President [...]
It is your moral responsiblity to begin growing rice
Food prices are high, blah blah, we all know. Not that that’s not important. But this seems more important: Donors–who presumably (she says with typical glibness) apply the same sound business judgment to their philanthropy budgets as they do to the books of the corporations that made them all that money in the first place–have [...]
Aid-ing the poor
It doesn’t take all that much time in a place like Rwanda to start wondering if aid works, or how it might work better. Here’s an excerpt from a blog I just happened upon, in which a guy from Europe (Germany?) who’s been here a lot longer than I raises a few difficult questions: The [...]
Decoding the news
Here’s an article from Agence France Press, which is like the A.P. or Reuters–those big news organizations that cover the world in “traditional journalism style.” You’ll recognize it; it’s that thing Jon Stewart mocks so brilliantly. The article is short, but I made it shorter, so I can get to the point: BUJUMBURA (AFP) — [...]
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