I think many cheered when Ms. dePape flashed her Stop Harper sign during the throne speech. It was an act that was inspirational and most likely a taste of what’s to come over the next 4 years. There are two reasons for this: first, young people are now represented in our government like never before…
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…
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…
Conclusions from HarassMap’s First Progress Report
November 1st, 2010 to December 29th, 2010
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…
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…
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…
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….
Having worked with youth to establish One Stop Youth Centres in Kampala, Uganda, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kigali, Rwanda, I have seen the power of mobile phones both to convene people as well as disseminate important information. What I find really exciting is to see how quickly and to what success mobile…
I have been struggling to get my head around Usahidi, the Swahili for “witness” or “testimony.” I knew it was created during the post-election violence in Kenya in early 2008. I had many friends who went through that terrible time, and felt equally horrified and powerless. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet