Next weeks will be spend on reading up on the drought and climate change issues in Kenya before excitingly going there in October with Global Change. People in the Northern part around Lake Turkana have experienced huge lack in rainfalls and over the summer the situation have worsened. The region is[...]
Archive for the ‘Link of the day’ Category
August 26th, 2009 - 9:06 pm § in Link of the day
Learning from Obama
A clear, straightforward and rather comprehensive manual of what key insights to be gathered from the Obama campaign-landslide last year with regards to online campaigning and organizing is just out from Colin Delany of epolitics.com – that we already linked once – and I think its great:[...]
August 4th, 2009 - 3:00 pm § in Link of the day
Long tail of sociale mobiles
Ken Banks from the crowdsourcing mobile project FrontlineSMS has a sharp pitch tying the ends of mobile developments in Africa with Chris Andersons “The Long Tail” – which has been the talk of town in management circles since 2006. Ken Banks points out the obvious that big technolo[...]
July 26th, 2009 - 10:22 am § in Link of the day
Change your tools – two-pages in 'Udvikling'
For the Danish speaking audience, your favourite blogger at this site – Anders – just ran a two-page feature on mobile-tech in Africa in the Danish dev.-newspaper Udvikling. Click the image to download in pdf. [...]
June 14th, 2009 - 9:58 pm § in Link of the day
Online Politics 101
Via Josh Levy – behind change.org among other interesting projects, and coming up skype-lecturer at Communicator for Social Change that I’m wrapping up these weeks – I was introduced to epolitics.com and the guide Online Politics 101 (pdf). It’s a nice introductory read for a[...]
June 10th, 2009 - 8:48 pm § in Link of the day
WorldWideVideo
While I’m not to convinced on the examples proposed by Max Gladwll on how social media might produce social change he gave me a chance to see a rather thrilling example of how strong webvideo can be, when kept as simple as in this one, by now seen by more than 21 millions viewers worldwide: [y[...]
