Over the last few months I’ve noticed the sunset moving across Toronto’s skyline. I know that the Northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun while heading into the winter months, but it is another thing watching…
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2015 International forum for young leaders call for applications
September 12, 2014 Events & Conferences International DevelopmentI had the pleasure of chairing the 2013 Echenberg Fellows program. If you are reading this and you would like a chance to engage with a group of your peers doing amazing things around the world,…
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Remit.ug featured in Masters thesis on mobile entrepreneurship by Guy Shmuel
September 12, 2014 Projects technologyGuy Samuel interviewed yours truly about our little remittances startup a few months back for his Masters thesis in International Relations at Institut Barcelona. Remit.ug is exemplary of the benefit that can be created when mobile…
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The Economists review of my book reveals how white people still refuse to believe black people about being black | Edward E Baptist | Comment is free | theguardian.com
September 8, 2014 International DevelopmentEdward E. Baptist responds to the Economist’s deplorable review of his new book about slavery: If you write about the history of slavery, you become used to the pattern: No matter how many accounts you cite…
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O3b Is Now Bringing Its High Speed Satellite Internet To Emerging Markets
September 5, 2014 technologyMost satellite internet and data services are from satellites in geosynchronous orbit – a little over 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. That distance increases the time it takes for data signals to travel. O3b’s satellites,…
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Othering, Ebola and the history and politics of pointing at immigrants as potential disease vectors – The Washington Post
August 25, 2014 #AfriFAIL Health International DevelopmentGreat takedown of the Newsweek ebola cover By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne in the Washington Post: Newsweek’s use of a chimpanzee to represent a scientifically invalid story about an African disease is a classic case…
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Can we have a conversation about not allowing each other to think of ourselves as less than anyone? We are equal in every sense to any other human. We need to have pride in ourselves, in…
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Dan Evans visited Hive Colab last year while I was in Uganda: Based on the maturity and business viability of many of the small tech firms that we have met with over our data collection visits,…
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Woke up early to the song of birds greeting each other and walked into the garden to snap a few shots. Every leaf was swaying heavily with balls of rain drops. A cool soft breeze swayed…
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BBC News on the launch of Internet.org: Mark Zuckerberg’s passionate interest in internet.org’s mission certainly seems genuine. But a business with 1.3 billion users that needs to to show investors that those numbers are continuing to…
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