South Africa-based Design Indaba stopped in to see what we are up to at Hive Colab and recording this video interview. Came together well (for whatever reason, I can’t seem to embed it here). “All the…
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#UgandaDecides: Breaking down the eligible voter count
February 12, 2016 International Development PoliticsAfter discovering 20,000 ghost voters in the 2016 voter registry, we spent yesterday deep-diving into the reported number of registered voters against the number of citizens eligible to register as voters in the country. You can find…
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In defense of the Afropolitan narrative
February 11, 2016 Art & Entertainment International DevelopmentLast week, I finished reading Adichie’s Americannah and promptly threw it across the room. The book infuriated me. It wasn’t because it was yet another book with Adichie’s predictable pace and prose. The book infuriated me because I saw in each…
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Yeah, I said it, Kampala beats any other East African capital for the best place to live and work. The appeal may not be immediately obvious. It is not as clean as Kigali, or by the…
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A deep dive in Uganda’s Electoral Commission’s registered voter register
February 10, 2016 International Development Politics UgandaHere’s 1st of many infographics I’ll be creating to break down Uganda’s electoral commission data #UgandaDecides. While the inaccuracy in the data is statistically minor, it’s what it says about @UgandaEc attention to detail. After all, they…
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Obama signs Africa power initiative into law; looks to bring electricity to 50 million people | MG Africa
February 9, 2016 Climate Change Economy International Development Sustainable EnergyUS President Barack Obama signed into law Monday a measure aimed at expanding electricity to millions of households in sub-Saharan Africa, a measure supporters say will save lives and accelerate growth on the continent. Source: Obama signs…
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JESSE EISINGER writing for NYT on Mark Zuckerberg’s latest announcement: Of course, nobody thinks our government representatives do a good job of allocating resources. Politicians — a bunch of bums! Maybe Mr. Zuckerberg will make wonderful…
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Over the last month, my colleagues Wayan Vota, Jessica Heinzelman, and myself launched a Kickstarter project to help all those jaded humanitarians out there saving the world unleash their long-held skepticism about their own industry – in…
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The downside to modernization – in this case the village moving from fossil fuel burning as an energy source to solar-powered everything – is that you lose some long-held traditions. The village used to be a…
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Just discovered Mark Manson, blogging on relationships for Business Insider(?). I suppose business people are human and must, at some point in their time off, have relationships with real life people. Either way this is some…
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