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…
It has always been my belief that the best way to test anything is to go into the most challenging conditions and see if it works there. I used this philosophy in my youth work – moving with my agency from the more affluent west side of Vancouver, to the east side, and then to…
Sometimes you just love what people post … as it goes with me for Kris Krug.
Though I have not been yet, there is a great buzz around the iHub in Nairobi, described as an “open Space for technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in Nairobi.” (I have also been told they sell great coffee). They just clocked their first year in existance last week, and it is great to see…
Mr. Ghonim says it all – the internet and social media facilitated the coming together of the revolution. It broke down the feeling of isolation that the Egyptian regime banked on. Social capital was created. Enough said by me, Ghonim says it better. For other posts on the role of social media in affecting change…
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…
I have been blogging on the huge advancements going on in Africa, specifically in the mobile phone industry. Two articles, one from the blog Floating Sheep (love that name), and another from the bastion of capitalism, the Wall Street Journal, tell the story of this growth. — Map of per-capita mobile phone subscriptions Using World…
Conclusions from HarassMap’s First Progress Report
November 1st, 2010 to December 29th, 2010
I am very proud to be a Senior Associate with Sustainable Cities, an international development agency based out of Vancouver, Canada. Last year we were able to do some outstanding work with UN-HABITAT in advancing the issue of youth and cities through the publication of the World Urban Forum Dialogue Series: Youth in Cities, and…
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…