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The past 30 days in technology for development

Weekly: Upcoming Events in San Fran, NYC

Happy Week! We have a number of upcoming community events both online and in person: SanFran, NYC and even a livestream from Stockholm!

Integra to assist in USAID’s Finance and Business Services (FaBS) Project

Integra LLC is pleased to announce the award of a subcontract with CARANA Corporation to implement the Finance and Business Services (FaBs) project in Ethiopia. FaBS will assist the Government of Ethiopia in achieving their targets in financial reform, business development services, and trade facilitation.

Building Powerful Constituencies to Address the Health Workforce Crisis: The Importance of Global Partnerships

To foster action on the global human resources for health (HRH) crisis, a sense of urgency must be sustained at global, regional, and national levels. Many organizations, governments, and agencies are engaged in promoting sound HRH policies and practices; however, no single entity can resolve health workforce challenges on its own.

Analyze Business Processes Before Automating Them: An iHRIS Manage Case Study

This post was originally published on the iHRIS blog. CapacityPlus develops the core iHRIS so

Celebrating 20 Years of Supporting Eurasia’s Emerging Leaders

Nearly 5,000 leaders across Eurasia successfully completed the Muskie Fellowship Program over the last twenty years. Many alumni are now high-ra

We use the BRCK

We already use BRCK. The Ushahidi team spends a lot of time on conference calls. It’s what you do when you have a team spread across seven time zones. Every Monday the whole team gets on a call, but today, as is often the case, the net was down in Nairobi.

Russian Students Promote Global Diversity on a Local Scale

In honor of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21 and the campaign to “do one thing for diversity,” IREX is pleased to highlight the recent efforts of two Russian students,  Anastasia and Alina,  who coordinated

Upgrade Day 2.7: May 30 – 31, 2013

We’re hosting the 3rd Community-wide Upgrade Day on the May 30 – 31, 2013, to help those of you running older versions of the platform get upgraded to the latest and most secure version of Ushahidi.

Listen to Me: LGBT Perspectives on International Development

Listen to Me: LGBT Perspectives on What's Helpful & What's Harmful in International Development
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 
11:30am - 1:30pm 
Location: IREX, 1275 K ST, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005 

Regarding Humanity

Imagery and stories used to frame issues of humanitarian development for advocacy and funding are often sensational and culturally disrespectful, representing those living in poverty as helpless victims in need, rather than as empowered and capable individuals.

USAID Assessment of Market Information Systems in Africa

This Assessment of Market Information Systems in Africa briefing paper presents the results of an assessment carried out to explore the current use of sustainable (without on-going donor support) and scalable (potentially to millions of farmers) agricultural market price information systems (MIS) in Africa, with a particular fo

Crowdfunding Checkbook Journalism: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” and its implications

Toronto mayor Rob Ford is a controversial character. 2300 words in his 7600 word Wikipedia biography make up a section titled “other controversies“.

IREX Welcomes New Board Member

IREX is pleased to announce the appointment of its newest Board member, Ms.

Surveying ICT use in education in five Arab States

revisiting the past while looking to the futureWhen I was back in school, and long before I had come across names like
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