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[...]
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July 5th, 2009 - 10:07 pm § in Uncategorized
Virtual sit-in at the Presidents palace
Apart from being an innovative use of geo-mapping – or geo-bombing – it’s also fun: Tunesian bloggers has made a virtual sit-in at the presidential palace [...]
June 19th, 2009 - 9:26 am § in Uncategorized
Why the Iranian government can‘t keep the twitter out
Following the previous post, here is an interesting explanation of why the Iranian government — which has attempted to block eveything from BBC Persia to text messaging — can’t keep the twitter out. Jeff Jarvis from the Buzz Machine explains a little about the architecture of twi[...]
June 4th, 2009 - 9:38 am § in Uncategorized
Another story on the cell in Africa – the way to better rural health care?
How will future development of health care in the global south come about in the future? A good guess is that brain drain of doctors migrating from Africa to Europe and USA will continue and that rural clinics will see few local doctors in the near future. In Malawi a new tech project FrontlineSMS M[...]
June 3rd, 2009 - 1:22 pm § in Uncategorized
Free … if you have money
If you thought that the internet would be free of the country borders of the “real” world, think again. There are now signs that the immigration authorities between the rich and the poor countries are being established in cybersspace, not by governments but by internet companies themselv[...]
May 19th, 2009 - 9:28 pm § in Uncategorized
Dagens link: Mobile Active
Her følger dagens inspirationslink: MobileActive.org er et fint blogger-projekt, der samler og giver overblik over brugen af mobile teknologier til at skabe sociale forandring. De har bl.a udgivet en fin rapport i november, der opsummerer brugen af mobilteknologi i borgermedierprojekter – læ[...]
May 5th, 2009 - 4:21 pm § in Uncategorized
No-nonsense 2.0 campaigning – The Atheist Busses
Jon Worth, a Brittish blogger and campaigner recently gave a great presentation at Re:publica in Berlin (the video starts after 5 min.) about the Atheist Bus Campaign. Over a short time span he and a Guardian journalist initiated a project which raised more than 100.000 pounds for adds on busses [...]
May 4th, 2009 - 2:22 pm § in Uncategorized
Ushahidi – citizen based mobile documentation
One of the most interesting projects about developing ways to include citizens in crisis reporting is definately Ushahidi. The principle is simply to bring together SMS-communication from citizens and reports in order to secure transparant ways of documenting conflicts in areas such as Uganda, Kenya[...]
April 27th, 2009 - 7:34 pm § in Uncategorized
The Kenyan blogosphere in 5
Vi har skrevet meget om revolutionen af medier i USA – men tiden er også inde til at kigge lidt på resten af verden. Via Global Voices – et super vigtigt projekt for at udvikle en trans-nationale opbygning af borgerdrevne medier – er jeg faldet over ‘Kenyas vigtigste blogge[...]
