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Enhancing Girls’ Participation in Schools in Pakistan via Oxfam Innovation prize set to reward African inventors via @SciDevNet Schools in Pakistan’s Sindh province to teach Chinese via @BBCNews Study Shows School Uniforms Improve Attendance, But Not Grades via @Freakonomics How good is published academic research? via @MargRev
Here are some of the latest links I posted to Twitter…for those who aren’t active on Twitter. Getting Africa’s big ideas out of the lab via @SciDevNet What is an “entrepreneur”? Probably not what you think. h/t to @DaveAlgoso Is There a Failure of Imagination in International Development? via Hauser Center Why Charities Should Have [...]
Here are some of the latest links I posted to Twitter…for those who aren’t active on Twitter. World’s Biggest Tree Planting Project: 60 Million Mangroves (in Senegal) Lehigh Valley businessman Abraham Zegeye to build school in father’s native village in Ethiopia Did you know there are over 9,000 Kenyans on Twitter? Check out some of [...]
The Annoyance of International Justice via Eric Reeves/Dissent Magazine How to self-publish an e-book via CNET Is Web Accessibility a Social Responsibility? via NTEN Big brother just got bigger Live Aid, Dead Aid and Smart Aid via Dochasnetwork’s Blog
Is the Title “Freelancer” a Turn-Off? via Freelance Folder How Web Designers Can Adopt a Global Mindset via Six Revisions 25 Beautiful Travel and Tourism Websites via Vandelay Design Best Tools for Testing Cross Browser Compatibility via DJDesignerLab 5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website via Six Revisions
Heading to Africa or the tropics anytime soon? Consider Chris Blattman’s list of essentials. And don’t forget to read the original list too. Good stuff from @cblatts as usual. Reasons to buy a pink car via RovingBandit It’s now legal to jailbreak your iPhone. But proceed with caution. Flying cars? God save us all. Why [...]
A Complete Guide To Tumblr via Smashing Magazine Energy retrofits could save $41 billion a year via CNET Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions via Appfrica Report : Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education via SocioLingo Africa Why Don’t The French Get As Fat As Americans? via Barking [...]
It’s official, Facebook hits 500 million members (but how long will the growth last?) Ushahidi in the classroom (a simple simulation as to how Ushahidi works) The Dichotomies in Personal Learning Environments and Institutions Open Source Design: Can Non-Devs Contribute to Open Source Software Projects? (my personal favorite link of the day) HOW TO: Crowdsource [...]
Africa: Charity vs. Investment via @emeka_okafor (I vote for investment) Must-have browser: Safari 5 Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, moves to Boston from Antwerp for two years via @dries Google launches new search engine: Caffeine How to tell a fake NGO from a real one via @itsjina
Kenya ICT Board to offer grants for (local) digital content and software applications Does the size of that Gucci logo tell you something about the wearer? Twitter Hiring White House Liaison To Help Politicos ‘Tweet More Effectively’ 12-year-old Ghana boy crowned the national winner of the Doodle 4 Google ‘Love Football’ competition Cartoons in Burkina [...]
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