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Hey London, your books are needed for Sudan

As reported by Roving Bandit, one of my favorite bloggers from Sudan:
“This looks like a great project. There is a container at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London waiting to be filled with academic books for Juba University. Get down there if you have any and you are based in London; the [...]

Circumventing Internet Censorship: The Next Frontier for Human Rights Activists

By far, one of the more insightful posts I’ve ever read by Ethan Zuckerman: “Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention”
I recommend by starting with Secretary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom before moving on to reading Zuckerman’s blog post. Regardless of your political persuasion, this speech is a powerful one that touches on an issue of increasingly profound [...]

Link Roundup: Farm Radio to Eric Reeves

Farm Radio International Launches 3rd Radio Scriptwriting Competition
Google Steps Up Its Darfur Genocide Coverage In Google Earth (via TechCrunch)
When Society Expects Us to Fail, We Usually Do (from Nathaniel Whittemore via Change.org Social Entrepreneurship blog)
Ten reasons why Chinese are despised in Africa (via African Politics Portal)
Navigating Africa With OpenStreetMap (via 27 months blog)
US Sudan Envoy [...]

Putting the term “third world” to sleep

I’ve been ranting about this for several years now: the continued use of the term “third world” to describe countries currently in development, also known as “developing countries”. While I don’t get into heated discussions about it’s use, as most people are simply uninformed of how improper it is, I do think it’s worth exploring [...]

African Summer Event Wrap-up

This is a great summer for exciting tech events happening throughout Africa. Be sure to check out some of the latest events coming up and spread the word:

International Development and Design Summit (IDDS)-Ghana
Mediatech Africa ‘09, South Africa
Barcamp Abidjan-Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Maker Faire Africa (MFA)-Ghana
AFRICON-Nairobi, Kenya

Lastest finds in the blogoshpere

On June 15th, I was musing over the (growing) problem of information overload. I’ve since siphoned my Google Reader collection of RSS feeds down to 335. Not too bad, but I still have a ways to go to bring it to a manageable amount.
Here are some good finds I have in my Google Reader you [...]

Speaking of Bashir’s indictment by the ICC…

I’ve read multiple write-ups on the indictment of Sudanese President Omar Bashir and have been asked just as many times on my thoughts on the whole ordeal. Some are asking because I have an interest in human rights in general and others are asking because I started studying human rights law with the University of [...]

5 Inspiring Blogs I Follow on a Daily Basis

People love lists, don’t they? Grocery lists. To-do lists. Blog lists. I decided to write up a list of some blogs I’m so thankful they exist I can’t help but show my appreciation for them by passing them to you my readers. So here they are along with my own personal commentary:

Change.org’s Social Entrepreneurship–Led by [...]

7 Noteworthy Links

I decided to increase 5 Noteworthy Links to 7 Noteworthy Links. I have such a large plethora of links to share that I feel the need to get them out in the open to people who might benefit from them. As always, if you have something to add to next weeks list, please send them [...]

Debut of “5 Noteworthy Links”

I subscribe to a massive amount of RSS feeds in my Google Reader to keep me up-to-date with the Internet’s pulse. As many people can’t live without their morning coffee, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my daily dose of Google Reader. While it would take me eons to visit all of [...]

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