I spent a couple of days thinking about the Louise Linton debacle and I published the below piece on Medium for The Development Set. It usually starts with a trickle. Then a steady stream. Then a torrent…
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This is a very powerful, cogent —albeit painful—read in light of the events of the last five days. Professor Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times: You cannot know what terror we live in. You make…
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The US Embassy Mission in Kampala this afternoon facilitated, in partnership with ICTAU, an open dialog on Net Freedom in Uganda. In attendance were the usual suspects one can find at such brain gatherings in the…
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If you’ve been paying attention, then you already know I am the Educated Angry African co-founder of JadedAid, a card game to save humanitarians. This past week, we launched a SWAG section on our online store.…
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Last week, I got an email question from a colleague (we’ll call her ‘Amy’). I asked Amy for permission to answer her question in a more public forum, because this is a question I get quite often. And…
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Dear Quartz, it’s too early to make a call on the success of mobile money in Africa
March 17, 2016 technology UgandaTom Jackson, writing for Quartz Africa: The impact of mobile money, for one, has not been uniform across the continent. M-Pesa has been a resounding success in Kenya, where over half of adult consumers have an…
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A photo posted by TMS Ruge (@tmsruge) on Mar 15, 2016 at 9:56am PDT The days just add up; the sunsets, one after the other close out long hot days doing the menial 1000 things one…
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Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin – The New York Times
March 10, 2016 technologyBut there is much energy and raw materials to use elsewhere in the solar system, and eventually, he prophesies, there will be the “great inversion.” Instead of factories on Earth manufacturing sophisticated components that go into…
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On the FBI taking on Apple and what it means to the global village unified by tech
February 24, 2016 International Development technology UgandaLast week, Apple’s Tim Cook published a letter to its customers explaining why they plan to fight the FBI’s request to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernadino terrorist attackers: Specifically, the…
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Al Jazeera’s ‘The Stream’ show hosts Ugandans to discuss #UgandaDecides
February 23, 2016 Appearances International Development UgandaI joined three other Ugandans on Al Jazeera's The Stream to discuss the recent Ugandan presidential elections:…
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