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Something about drive and calmness

June 6, 2010

…today makes these links feel appropriate. It’s a near-lazy day in Oxford, hinting at mugginess. I’m calm and partially refreshed after a couple days away. It’s a day for exploration and productivity, but mostly for those intriguing spaces between the two. Here are some of today’s better links.
Pictory’s Profile of NYC. Pictory takes the weekly “sites I [...]

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Phone Power

January 3, 2010

A powerful, reoccuring theme for me recently recently has been the growing importance of mobile technology. This is as profound a shift in many parts of the developing world as it is in the richer nations. Mobile adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is ocurring at staggering rates. The International Telecommunications Union puts out a report each [...]

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Shot of the Day: Obama

April 12, 2009

President Obama, are you listening? Africa’s got some high expectations.
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Canadian voices from Africa

November 26, 2008

Not Ethio-specific, but there are a couple of good blogs I’ve stumbled upon recently:
Stephanie Nolen, award-winning Canadian journalist with the Globe and Mail. I’ve always loved her writing, which has at times been beautiful, real, disturbing, insightful and penetrating.
Also check out Colleen’s blog, a good friend and new EWB volunteer in Malawi.
On a side note, [...]

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