Three Notes on World AIDS Day
As I wrote a couple weeks ago in an email to the Rising Voices mailing list, I have mixed feelings about World AIDS Day. On the one hand, it can help create the illusion that we only need to think about AIDS one day out of the year and then somehow everything will get...The GRID and South Africa's First Mobile Documentary
As if staying at the Rosebank Hotel didn’t already completely spoil us, we began our blogger’s road show of South Africa with a box full of gadget goodness thanks to the kind folks at Vodacom. Included in the bag was a Vodafone E172 Mobile Broadband USB...
Freedom is Just Another Word for Not Knowing What To Do
Today is the official start of the South Africa Bloggers Roadshow, which means that this is my last post for the next ten days not related to the roadshow. The young bloggers from Kwa Mashu continue to inspire me. I hung out with them all day on Friday. Once again, I...The South Africa Bloggers Roadshow and the Trade Versus Aid Hypothesis
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I am here thanks to a blog post by Matthew Buckland, a comment left by Mohamed Nanabhay, and the kind invitation of Simon Barber of the International Marketing Council of South Africa. Starting on November 30 I will be part of a...![[Review] The Conservationist](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2756688020_8cf7df2b06.jpg?w=425)
[Review] The Conservationist
This is the kind of book that college professors love to assign to their undergrads. Similar to Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz, in which Artemio’s life and death serve as metaphors for the historic arc of the Mexican Revolution and the corrupt...Thank You K-CAP
And you thought I was just throwing out complements when I said the kids at Kwa Mashu are amazing. Check it: It is always so hard for me to say goodbye to any of the Rising Voices groups, but it was especially hard to say goodbye at Kwa Mashu. They are so creative and...
Social Capital in South Africa
In 2000 sociologist Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone. No, I haven’t read it yet, but the title sums up his central observation: across the United States league bowling is on the decline. Putnam is concerned by this because it is representative of the...BarCamps Without Borders: Bringing Bloggers Together to Make Change
Originally published on Idea Lab. OK, So you’ve got your own blog. You’ve started taking pictures and posting them online. But what’s more, you’ve also trained some of your friends, family, and neighbors how to publish online. And, via the...Latest Photos
