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Some writing took position ‘behind the scene’ this week, but there’s soundless fourth dimension for a keen link review with lots to explore across all the themes!

Development news: Diabetes inwards Mexico; malpractice inwards Ghana; immersive storytelling; organizational growth-what is it goodness for?; United Nations bureaucracy inwards Lebanon; the forests of the Congo Basin; BBC Media Action’s novel information portal; gender security for aid workers; representative studies on drones for humanitarian use; African podcasts.

Our digital lives: Digital newsrooms inwards Republic of Botswana & Sri Lanka; the demands of friendliness; beloved inwards the fourth dimension of cryptography.

Publications: New books on industrialization, doughnut economics, cultural anthropology, women inwards the digital sector & Nepal’s peace process.

Academia: H5N1 twenty-four lx minutes menses inwards the life of an academic mom; rules for academic commentary inwards media; crowdsourcing needs to a greater extent than scrutiny; the myth of tenured radicals inwards the neoliberal university.
Enjoy!

Development news

Some keen tweet to explore at #WCPH2017!

How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
At the midpoint of this deviation of views were also dissimilar visions of the United Nations together with its potential together with utility inwards managing the procedure of decolonization. The ending of the secession past times United Nations forces inwards 1962 reflected that African together with Asian countries could implement anti-colonial policies through the UN, fifty-fifty when this was opposite to the interests of European colonial powers. By destroying Western consensus, highlighting the agency of anti-colonial actors together with demolishing the concluding vestiges of Belgian colonial dominion inwards the Congo, the United Nations activity thereby represented the offset of import defeat of imperialist internationalism inwards Central Africa.
Alanna O'Malley for Africa is a Country with a historical essay on the crisis inwards Congo together with how it changed international relations-not to the lowest degree it because the interrogation 'Who killed Hammarskjöld?' soundless needs answers.

Five questions our information portal tin plough over notice aid answer
Enter our novel Data Portal (view on desktop), which brings together data, reports together with visualisations from surveys conducted inwards thirteen developing countries that in that place aren't a lot of statistics about. Over v years, nosotros asked to a greater extent than than 75,000 (rarely polled) people nearly what they think, experience together with want. The portal covers a gain of issues from what they’re most worried nearly to how interested they are inwards politics.
We desire these insights to aid evolution leaders, practitioners together with researchers improve empathise ordinary people inwards the developing globe hence they tin plough over notice make to a greater extent than effective strategies, projects together with communications.
Sonia Whitehead for BBC Media Action presents their novel information portal.

Gender Security for Aid Workers Part 2
Perhaps the most of import learning I remove maintain taken from this experience is the rarity of these conversations. Most participants tell that this is the offset fourth dimension they remove maintain always had this give-and-take inwards a work-related context. The absence of discussions nearly gender security alongside aid workers is a security job inwards itself. Unless men together with women tin plough over notice acquire comfortable talking openly nearly the varying security risks they face, in that place is less that tin plough over notice hold out done to mitigate the likelihood of the events or the comport on that they volition have.
In closing, I would similar to challenge you lot to make 2 things.
First, enquire yourself, what are the security issues that concern you lot the most inwards your piece of work context? And, what are you lot personally doing to mitigate the run a peril that you lot mightiness hold out involved inwards a critical incident?
Linda Wagener for the Headington Institute with to a greater extent than nutrient for thought on the emerging issues on gender together with security inwards humanitarian aid.

How Drones Can Help inwards Humanitarian Crises
At the inwardness of the enquiry were fourteen representative studies from 10 countries that looked at the comport on of drones inwards situations ranging from search together with rescue, to harm assessments together with army camp management to transporting medical samples.
Denise Soesilo & Timo Luege for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action presenting their latest study on Unarmed Aerial Vehicles inwards humanitarian contexts.

How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
At the midpoint of this deviation of views were also dissimilar visions of the United Nations together with its potential together with utility inwards managing the procedure of decolonization. The ending of the secession past times United Nations forces inwards 1962 reflected that African together with Asian countries could implement anti-colonial policies through the UN, fifty-fifty when this was opposite to the interests of European colonial powers. By destroying Western consensus, highlighting the agency of anti-colonial actors together with demolishing the concluding vestiges of Belgian colonial dominion inwards the Congo, the United Nations activity thereby represented the offset of import defeat of imperialist internationalism inwards Central Africa.
Alanna O'Malley for Africa is a Country with a historical essay on the crisis inwards Congo together with how it changed international relations-not to the lowest degree it because the interrogation 'Women’s Pathways to the Digital Sector: Stories of Opportunities together with Challenges
This study aims at agreement the operate of ICT inwards realising women’s rights, gender equality together with women’s economical empowerment inwards gild to position the challenges together with opportunities for women together with girls to partake inwards ICT didactics together with employment. The next presents a two-fold approach, consisting of a desk study together with biographical interviews. The 22 portrayed women piece of work inwards dissimilar roles inwards ICT together with come upwardly from developing equally good equally emerging countries from all continents
Panoply Digital on behalf of the German linguistic communication Ministry for Economic Cooperation together with Development.

Two steps forward, ane footstep back: the Nepal peace process
In reviewing Nepal’s peace process, this 26th edition inwards our Accord serial takes a special focus on the business office of ability on inclusion, together with the operate of the peace procedure equally a agency to facilitate transition from negative to positive peace, or from horizontal (elite) to vertical (societal) inclusion.
Conciliation Resources with a substantial 150 page document on the Nepal peace process.

Academia

A Day In The Life Of An Academic Mom
Blogger Tania Lombrozo is an academic — together with a mom. Here, she gives a window into what that's similar day-to-day.
Tania Lombrozo for NPR with a pretty accurate pic on how many academics pass their 12 lx minutes piece of work days inwards the 'ivory tower'...

Lagassé’s rules for academic commentary inwards pop media
Op-eds together with blogs are a keen way of offering an informed, but provocative perspective. If there’s a theme inwards your expanse of expertise inwards the news, you lot should write nearly it together with utilization your cognition to offering a novel perspective, especially if you lot facial expression most columnists to stick with rote points. You tin plough over notice also utilization op-eds together with blogs to pose novel ideas out there. If you’ve got a hunch nearly something based on your expertise, hence you lot tin plough over notice utilization these venues to exam the waters. In both cases, however, it’s imperative that you lot enjoin the reader that you’re beingness exploratory or that you’re making an educated analysis, non representing the findings of a enquiry project.
Philippe Lagassé with some basic points on how academics tin plough over notice engage with journalism inwards a win-win way.

With keen ability comes keen responsibility: crowdsourcing raises methodological together with ethical questions for academia
As researchers together with academic cognition producers, nosotros should non forget the parameters of cognition production. We demand to think nearly together with reverberate on the methodological underpinnings of novel digital methods. To begin, nosotros should reverberate on who together with what the “crowd” is together with what this agency for our item study. To make so, nosotros tin plough over notice depict on a pragmatist methodology that requires us to hold out candid nearly what nosotros make together with why, inwards relation to our destination goal. We should recollect that crowdsourcing stems from concern together with the construction of many usually used platforms volition shape our data.
With crowdsourcing come upwardly keen opportunities, but also keen responsibility.
Isabell Stamm together with Lina Eklund for LSE Impcat of Social Science with a reminder that 'sexy' digital methods soundless demand a lot of critical academic reflection-and that a lot of c'crowd' is happening within a dark box of propitiatory systems that researchers make non remove maintain amount access to.

Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
This is equally truthful on campus equally it is on the mill floor, inwards offices, inwards retail establishments. Professors routinely acquiesce to employer demands that they hold out repeatedly assessed, with techniques that imply that pupil performance together with fifty-fifty success inwards life tin plough over notice hold out correlated straight to what a instructor does inwards the classroom. Really, it is no dissimilar than when college administrators urge faculty to tighten their belts because improve times are coming. Like sheep, they comply, twelvemonth later on year, but those goodness times never come. Faculty simply travel on to lose weight. The professor who says, hold back until I acquire tenure together with hence I volition activate my radical pump together with soul, is lying.
Michael D. Yates for Counter Punch on the myth of tenured radicals.

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