Category Archives: Mapping

Elections Canada Suppresses Youth Vote

Young People .. Rise Up! .. and stay home. In light of the focus on youth and student electoral participation at the 41 st general election, and on efforts to increase voter interest and turnout among this group, a well-intentioned returning officer undertook a special initiative to create an opportunity for students at the University…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

Pradically All the Time is out! http://bit.ly/cb0ShI ▸ Top stories today via @maguimartinez @sdv_duras # Al Jazeera: Kenyan youth map their home (another amazing MapKibera video). http://ow.ly/3R3GR # Sunday Nation (kenya): Youth unemployment and Egyptian lesson http://ow.ly/3R7YS # The Standard: We ignore Egypt’s chaos at our own peril. http://ow.ly/3R3jG # Pradically All the Time is…

Pradical Post: Places of Hope and Despair.

Slums are one of the fastest growing forms of human settlement in the world. They as well have one of the youngest demographics. We cannot move forward sustainably as a planet without engaging the people of these communities. They are our hope, and, if ignored, our despair. Here are a series of aerial shots of…

Youth, Technology and the Vote in Nigeria

Repost from ICTworks Great to see this process going on, driven by the Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps, and sorry to see that it has some bumps. Its as well interesting to see how social media – in this case a blog and twitter – are monitoring this process. Great to see a Usahidi site…

Repost: Update from Harrassmap

Conclusions from HarassMap’s First Progress Report
November 1st, 2010 to December 29th, 2010

Pradical Tweets for 2010-12-05

Pradical Tweets ‘Oceans of poverty, islands of wealth’ – Africa warned of ‘slum’ cities danger as its population passes 1bn: http://ow.ly/3glxc # Pradically All the Time is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://bit.ly/cb0ShI (271 contributions today) # RT @DougSaunders: love it! The documents were burned onto a CD-RW disguised as a Lady Gaga…

Tech/Touch Matrix – See it, feel it, touch it

There seems to be a lot of interest in the tech/touch matrix, so I thought I would update it from my previous post of October 4th. The Tech/Touch Matrix (above) was put together after my twitter attendance of the International Conference on Crisismapping 2010 and as part of my response to a great summary of…

Growing up in Cities (Canada)

A few years back I was honored to be able to participate in a Growing up in Cities (Canada) project focused on engaging youth in cities. GUIC (Canada) was based on the very successful international GUIC projects that have been run globally for over 2 decades. These projects, based on the initial GUIC project undertaken…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

Some stories of hope … by @practicalrad http://t.co/Yni2fhk # Wonder if Ford will attend events like this? Bloomberg, Miller&C40 mayors on sustainable cities- http://huff.to/b2tjYU @richard_florida # George “Sulu” Takei speaks out against Anti-Gay School Board Member. I respect Star Trek, a show ahead of its time. http://ow.ly/33y5Z # facebook .. she be down, down, down….

Twitter Weekly Updates for Pradical.org 2010-10-24

You be thinking that social media is a fad? Watch this .. http://ow.ly/2TJIe # Is the mobile phone the greatest technological advancement in 20 years? Some states: more than 80% of the earth has mobile phone coverage. # Pradically All the Time is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://bit.ly/cb0ShI (358 contributions today) #…