August 2009
East Timor celebrates its tenth birthday →
24 year occupation by Indonesia
100,000 deaths during the occupation
10 year anniversary of East Timor’s independence.
East Timor may be one of the youngest countries in the world but it has a long…
Global Swarming →
In his 2003 book, Smart Mobs, futurist Howard Rheingold predicted the next social revolution would be triggered by the ubiquity of mobile phones and computers. Their ability to send…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind →
Hi friends. I’m not quite back online yet, though the eye is healing very well, and more quickly than last time. You’ll probably hear from me at Ars Electronica this weekend, and I’ll be back at…
Summer volunteer program comes to an end →
Pakistan: Ex President's Trial - Treason Or... →
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation on the 18th of August, 2008. The much anticipated resignation came amid speculations of an impeachment move against him.…
Greenpeace - Making Waves: 10,000 Dance for a... →
10,000 people danced on a beach in Belgium to demand action at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December.
The dance will be incorporated into a 2-d and 3-d video clip to be…
Japan: Voting for Change →
Diary of A Singaporean Mind comments on the Japanese election result that ended the LDP 54 years of continuous rule. The blogger pointed out that Japanese people had voted for change even…
India: Mobile Value Added Services For Rural... →
Dina Mehta writes about an innovative value added service from mobile operator(s) which can empower people in rural areas in India with minimum cost. […]
Sri Lanka: Let The IDPs Go →
Indrajit Samarajiva at Indi.ca visits a Sri Lankan IDP camp and shares his observations: “Everyone just wants to go home, or at least to stay with relatives. They don’t need charity…
Food for thought →
Who could have thought that the average Jill and James, at the bottom of the pyramid, would be somehow be the hope to a nation’s economic plague? But this is the case, according to the Food for…
Help the United Nations 'Seal the Deal' in... →
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Bangladesh: Justice Denied →
The Online Citizen, a citizen media outlet of Singapore reports on a Bangladeshi labor, who was physically abused repeatedly by his Singaporean employer and denied 5 months salary. He…
Al-Amud al-Akhdar: Strata of Conflict in Darfur’s... →
The establishment, development and destruction of the settlement of al-Amud al-Akhdar in Darfur’s deep south forest belt provides a microcosm of Sudan’s modernization projects and their…
Introducing Tactical Philanthropy Advisors →
I am pleased to announce the launch of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors. Over the past three years, I have written the Tactical Philanthropy blog while providing advice to high net worth donors…
The Weekend Entrepreneur: Technology (and China)... →
SoCap made it to the front page of the Huffington Post this week based on this article.
Does Social Entrepreneurship Exist in China?: An important, important question.
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Iran: “United for Baha'i Human Rights” →
The Muslim Network for Bahai’s Rights share with us a short animation video about Bahais’ problems in Iran since 1979. […]
Myanmar: Tension in the Sino-Burmese border →
ESWN collects news reports on the military conflict between the Burmese government and the Kokang Ceasefire Group near the Sino-Burmese border. The situation has been getting worse in the…
Great Cartoon: How Scientific Research is Reported →
The below cartoon is brilliant (h/t boingboing), click to read the whole cartoon, worth it. For detailed writing on how mainstream media gets it wrong with respect to health check out a…
HIV free babies by 2015: Dream or Possibility? →
Last May, the director of UN AIDS declared the goal to “virtually eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015.” To better understand the challenges as well as the accessibility of this…
Microrate: The State of Microfinance Investment →
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Links and Tweets of the Week: August 30, 2009 →
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China and Taiwan: Dalai Lama's visit, inevitably... →
Yesterday Dalai Lama arrived in Taiwan on a visit that has been denounced by China. The trip, requested by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to President Ma Ying-jeou, aimed at comforting…
Online Translations At Your Fingertips →
For years I have relied on machine translations online to help get the gist of sites and conversations in languages I cannot read. It was always a somewhat laborious process of cutting/pasting…
Isn’t it ironic? →
It is indeed a paradox, an anachronistic piece of art that really got me thinking. Make no mistakes, the painting itself is beautiful. With precise oil paint brushstrokes, the piece, entitled “A…
Videos to Watch: Home Building for an Unstable... →
The chances are very good that East Biloxi, Missippi will be hit again by a future hurricane at least as severe as 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming are…
Like Kofi, like Ban Nepotism returns to United... →
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Qualifiers bound to get you a “jammy job” at the high-handed, diplomatic immunity protected United Nations? Other
In which I don’t care about genocides that kill... →
Regards,
Jonathan Custer
Lakeland, Florida (soon Birmingham, England)
Dear Mr. Custer,
Congrats on your tour de force demolishing my argument that nobody should care about genocides that…
Challenging Inheritance Traditions-Village Diary →
Village Diary seeks to overturn traditional inheritance customs within Cameroon that disenfranchise children and widows:
In our region of Cameroon, when the head of a household…
Fleeing in the time of Biafra →
No one speaks of Biafra but scrape the surface and half of the yellow sun still rises. This short story published in 234NEXT goes some way to break the silence. Going Home by Chika Unigwe
She said it…
Israel: Where Translations Go Wrong →
Literal translations aren’t always your best bet when moving between Hebrew and English, explains Maya of How to Be Israeli. She writes that the movie title “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”…
A Big Brand Doing It Right: Avery Block And Claim... →
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Hungary: St. Stephen →
Hungarian Spectrum writes: “Because there are so many references to St. Stephen nowadays in Hungary I thought I ought to write a post on what ‘Hungary’ looked liked in his days.” […]
Israel: Hollywood in the Holy Land →
September is a major month for Hollywood hot shots in the Holy Land. Israel is set to welcome the following performers: Madonna, Leonard Cohen, Faith No More, Julio Iglesias, MGMT, and Dinosaur…
Israel: Social Media Advances Jewish Identity →
eJewishPhilanthropy reports on how social media has enhanced Jewish identity. “For a people who have fretted over a loss of identity for generation after generation… innovations like…
Hurricane Katrina and the Urgency of Clean Energy... →
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But we have an opportunity to make a change.
President Obama made a commitment to address climate change and energy bill when he laid out his plans before Congress earlier this year….
East Timor: “Happy Day” of freedom vote →
Timorese bloggers have celebrated the 10th anniversary of the popular referendum which led to the territory’s formal independence. Alf@ Montenegro wrote [Tet]
Ohin loron , loron ALEGRIA…
Online campaigns to combat spread of HIV/AIDS →
All across the world stigma and discrimination against those who carry the HIV virus is rampant. In many countries cultural practices and social norms hinder people to discuss about these…
Vietnam: Blogger fired by newspaper →
Blogger Huy Duc, who writes under the pen name “Osin,” was fired from his job in a Saigon newspaper after Communist authorities in Vietnam complained about his writings […]
Malaysia: Muslims can’t watch “immoral” concerts →
To protect the morals of society, the youth arm of Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS Youth) wants to ban the forthcoming Michael Learns to Rock reunion concert in Malaysia. This is the same…
Huge Bird deaths in Thika, Kenya →
We have just recieved reports that there has been a huge die off of birds at the Thika sewage works just north of Nairobi. This sewage works has been a favourite place for birders as it attracts…
Myanmar: Cooking oil ban removed →
According to The Irrawaddy News, seven brands of cooking oil that had been banned for health reasons in Myanmar are now on sale again in Yangon after government authorities recommended…
The New Wives Club →
The show brings up a lot of different thoughts about past and present gender roles, and I think it makes women come to terms with history and previous obligations to fulfill the role of wife,…
Missed Connections →
blog, Missed Connections. In it, Blackall uses her considerable skills as a childrens’ book illustrator to draw versions of some of the strange/heartbreaking/hopeful ads that pop up…
In which I don’t care about genocides that kill... →
My WSJ review on Tracy Kidder’s book on the Burundian genocide survivor
generated this comment from a reader (abbreviated here, the full version is posted as a comment on the blog): Mr….
Missed Connections →
The digital and physical worlds get reconciled beautifully in Sophie Blackall’s five-month-old blog, Missed Connections, in which Blackall uses her skills as an artist to illustrate…
Costa Rica: Manuel Mora Valverde Founder of... →
Marco of ¡Que Clío nos guarde! [es] commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Manuel Mora Valverde, who was the founder and leader of the Communist Party in Costa Rica. […]
There is no conservation issue more pressing than... →
Here is a good article that outlines the effectiveness of Family Planning and, sadly, the consequences of cutting its funding. Population is the issue that international and domestic…
This Week in Darfur: Commander's Comments Spark... →
outgoing commander caused quite a stir among Darfur advocates this week, but seem to be, at least in part, the casualty of a news media and blogosphere thirsty for controversy. General…
Ted on Sunday: Remembering Ted Kennedy →
And so it ends.
I was born in Massachusetts and am old enough to remember where I was (sitting in a kindergarten classroom) the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My memory of that…
Chile: Technology Platform of Candidate Sebastian... →
Luis Ramirez writes about the technology platform of Chilean Presidential candidate Sebastian Piñera [es] and notes that his proposals include funding for a computer and broadband internet…