Over the next few months, I am switching focus to my fledgling agricultural startup, Raintree Farms. For the last six years I’ve been nipping at the heels of an idea I wanted to explore: how much…
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Building a Self-Reliant Africa from the Bottom-Up | Tiny Spark
July 13, 2015 Appearances Diaspora at work International DevelopmentHigh-level policies aren’t his only frustration. Ruge has also called out celebrity-led charities, like actor Ashton Kutcher’s 2009 campaign against malaria, which had him racing CNN for a million Twitter followers. The Hollywood star promised to…
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Africa Responds Tweetchat: Local Heroes: A focus on the local health workers in the ebola response
December 10, 2014 Diaspora at workFor a while now, we’ve been talking about raising support for the local organizations that have been at the forefront of the ebola response in the 4 most affect countries in West Africa. In previous tweet…
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Tweetchat Wednesday: Ebola, Media, Technology and the challenge of getting it right
November 4, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development newsFor almost 3 weeks now, Africa Responds – an initiative we started to promote and support Africa’s efforts in the ebola crisis – has been holding a weekly Twitter discussion on wide-ranging topics around the ebola…
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On launching Africa Responds – a collective effort to stop ebola in West Africa
November 3, 2014 Diaspora at work Health International Development news ProjectsAbout a month ago, my colleague Solome Lemma and I started looking at the international response campaigns to ebola in West Africa and got to wondering why all the attention was on international governments and NGOs.…
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IDEX, Africans in the Diaspora Announce New Partnership
September 18, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development newsCongrats to Solome Lemma and Africans in the Diaspora: “AiD was formed with the belief Africans abroad and on the continent have an important role to play in development in Africa” said Solome Lemma, AiD’s founder…
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How US evangelicals are shaping development in Uganda – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
July 25, 2014 Diaspora at workJames Kassaga Arinaitwe is a rising Ugandan voice to watch. I’ve had the pleasure of sharing a conversational meal with him in New York and in Kampala. I find him to be a kindred spirit, both as a…
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From Poverty to Power » Why are Africans getting ripped off on remittances?
April 27, 2014 Diaspora at work EconomyDuncan Green writing for Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power blog: ‘Remittances to Africa are rising. In 2013, transfers to the region were valued at $32 billion, or around 2% of GDP. Charges on remittances to Africa…
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Catherine Phiri: Lack of a choice is not a choice. Just because that’s what we are given all the time doesn’t mean that’s what we want. Debunking the made-for-Africa script: Catherine Phiri at TEDxEuston – YouTube.…
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Small steps to building a better remittances engine to Uganda
April 19, 2014 Diaspora at work Economy Projects UgandaPost by remit.ug. Building something to solve a long-faced problem is one of the hardest and most satisfying things to undertake. Steve Jobs is famous for saying “we build things we want to use.” Remit.ug has…
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