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Flowers 04

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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:58:41 -0700

Flowers 03

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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:58:41 -0700

Foday, Masa, Chelsea, Abdulai

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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:58:41 -0700

Building Online Support Strategically: Lessons From the Obama Campaign

Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson, former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success.  Lots of what Sam talked about can be translated into useful tactics for small and large organizations who are building communities of people who care about their issues.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:53:19 -0700

BBC: Sudan women 'lashed for trousers'

Primitive and deplorable:
"I was wearing trousers and a blouse and the 10 girls who were lashed were wearing like me, there was no difference," [Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein] told the BBC's Arabic service.
Ms Hussein said some women pleaded guilty to "get it over with" but others, including herself, chose to speak to their lawyers and are awaiting their fates.
Under Sharia law in Khartoum, the normal punishment for "indecent" dressing is 40 lashes.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:40:15 -0700

Grading Obama's Africa speech

Bill Easterly grades Obama's Accra speech.  He comes away generally positive, but this bit irks him. 
“We welcome the steps that are being taken by organizations like the African Union and ECOWAS to better resolve conflicts, keep the peace, and support those in need. And we encourage the vision of a strong, regional security architecture that can bring effective, transnational force to bear when needed.”

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:33:37 -0700

Malaria ramblings

This week was a little rough. We had a misunderstanding with our NGO in which the program was temporarily threatened. Luckily, it’s all been worked out now. We made plans a few weeks ago to travel to Kibale this weekend to visit Ian, Matthew, and Francis’s deployment at Kasissi School. (Or lets be honest, mostly just to hang out in the national park and watch chimps and monkeys wandering around the forest.) Unfortunately, I’d been feeling kind of sick since Monday of last week. At first I just assumed it was from switching my malaria prophylaxis.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:40:26 -0700

GeoAméricas Project

GeoAméricas Project

RegionCaribbean, Latin America

Programme Summary

This project uses geographic information systems (GIS) to present cultural, tourist, educational, environmental, and health-related sites and sources of information in coordination with local institutions and authorities.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:18:03 -0700

The Million Dollar Homepage

Some of the best ideas are so incredibly simple that, after-the-event, we’re all left wondering why we never came up with them. When I first heard of The Million Dollar Homepage back in October 2005, that’s precisely how I felt (like millions of others, no doubt).

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:14:37 -0700