Warfare is disruptive. The economist Paul Collier likes to call it “development in reverse.” And one of the way that war erases hard fought social and economic development gains is by interrupting children’s schooling.
New technologies are opening up all kinds of possibilities for improving monitoring and evaluation. From on-going feedback and crowd-sourced input to more structured digital data collection, to access to large data sets and improved data visualization, the field is changing quickly.
Innovation in Communication Project Director:Internews is seeking a Project Director to be based in Beijing to perform high level tasks and program implementation focused on mainstreaming I
At the global level, a very small percentage of development funding goes to urban spaces, yet hard-hitting issues impact many of the urban poor: lack of tenure, lack of legality of land, informal settlements, lack of birth registration and civil registration in general, waste disposal, clean water, politicizing of local authorities and more.
We all know that technology helps shape the way we work, learn, interact, and behave. We have also seen countless social issues come out of our own technology –online predators, pornography, piracy.
If you happen to be in New York City and have a couple of hours to spare, come on by to this panel today from 12-2 at UNICEF’s Danny Kaye Center. I’ll be doing an overview of some research that Keshet Bachan and I worked on late last year for UNICEF.
Last October, UNICEF West Africa wrote up a nice briefing note on mobile tech and its relevance in child protection programming. You can download it here.
Warfare is disruptive. The economist Paul Collier likes to call it “development in reverse.” And one of the way that war erases hard fought social and economic development gains is by interrupting children’s schooling.
