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Hi all,

I almost felt overwhelmed yesteryear the amount of interesting readings, reports in addition to articles that made it into this week's review-there is *a lot* of interesting materials for you lot to explore inward my latest review!

Development news: That Dove campaign; woman mortal leadership at the WHO; the powerfulness of lather opera inward Rwanda; Sierra Leone's married adult man schools; tourists in addition to Maasai reckon inward Tanzania; Mali & the complexities of contemporary assistance efforts; robots & inclusive growth; novel African literature going global; looking dorsum on 18 years of accountability research; courageous conversation podcast.

Our digital lives: Agile philanthropy & sweeping social movements; AI predictions; the futurist industrial complex.

Publications: Social media guidelines inward emergencies; UNCTAD's Information Economy Report; unfinished evolution projects inward Ghana; cash transfers & work; gender & ICT survey toolkit; images & NGO campaigns; complexity & policy-making; labor weather condition inward the South African vino industry; a globe of walls.

Academia: Research limitations inward development; Chinese teaching inward Tanzania; MOOCs (and their hype) are dead; Finnish celebrity saviors.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography (updated posts)
Reading #Maria through a #globaldev lens
More underlying evolution issues in addition to the complexities of Caribbean Area history are coming to low-cal forthwith inward the aftermath of natural disasters in addition to volition hold to furnish nutrient for give-and-take inward the #globaldev community.

Development word
I am the adult woman inward the 'racist Dove ad'. I am non a victim
I tin reckon how the snapshots that are circulating the spider web receive got been misinterpreted, considering the fact that Dove has faced a backlash inward the yesteryear for the exact same issue. There is a lack of trust here, in addition to I experience the world was justified inward their initial outrage. Having said that, I tin also reckon that a lot has been left out. The narrative has been written without giving consumers context on which to base of operations an informed opinion.
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However, the experience I had amongst the Dove squad was positive. I had an amazing fourth dimension on set. All of the women inward the shoot understood the concept in addition to overarching objective – to utilization our differences to highlight the fact that all peel deserves gentleness.
I retrieve all of us existence excited at the thought of wearing nude T-shirts in addition to turning into i another. We weren’t for sure how the finally edit was going to look, nor which of us would genuinely endure featured inward it, but everyone seemed to endure inward smashing spirits during filming, including me.
Lola Ogunyemi for the Guardian adds some interesting nuances to the unfortunate Dove promotion that has been circulated this week. I however think that a creative squad of a companionship similar Dove should receive got spotted the problems of 'changing skin' visualizations much before inward the process.

For the starting fourth dimension time, Women Outnumber Men inward Senior Posts at a United Nations Agency
In the announcement, the caput of the World Health Program Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that “The squad represents fourteen countries, including all WHO regions, in addition to is to a greater extent than than 60% women, reflecting my deep-held belief that nosotros demand top talent, gender equity in addition to a geographically various laid of perspectives to fulfill our mission to hold the globe safe.”
He is correct to endure proud. The World Health Organization is the finally agency i would facial expression to receive got a gender residue problem. Equal chance for wellness across gender is i of the centre missions of the WHO. It is a priority inward all its programs. However, the WHO is also a large bureaucracy, hindered yesteryear the same processes in addition to social factors that whatever large bureaucracy faces. It is equally wearisome to alter equally whatever organization.
Alanna Shaikh for UN Dispatch on the novel WHO leadership squad in addition to the 'wind of change' blowing through the United Nations scheme (?).

'Warrior Princess', the dynamics of interacting amongst 'the other' remain complicated.

The Paradox of Prosperity
European organizations receive got inward some cases partnered amongst local organizations, in addition to the EU-funded projects are oftentimes coordinated amongst the Malian government. But the overwhelming potency of European agencies has contributed to a sense that Malians themselves are non benefiting from these programs.
“This is European assistance for Europeans,” said Ousmane Diarra, the president of the Malian Association for Deportees, a Bamako-based organisation that supports Malians who receive got been deported from abroad. Diarra told me that his organisation has repeatedly sought European Union funding for an agricultural evolution project. “If I come upwards partnered amongst a European, so perhaps they volition finance me. But if I come upwards lone equally an African, no,” he said.
European diplomats say they are forced to partner amongst large evolution agencies because Malians lack the capacity to implement projects on the scale of those existence approved through the European Union Trust Fund. They also indicate to rampant corruption within the Malian government, which ranks inward the bottom one-half of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, equally a argue to channel coin toward European evolution agencies.
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From his novel habitation inward a corner of Bamako where ambition tends to outpace opportunity, Traoré however thinks virtually traveling to Europe, though it feels further away than ever. He in addition to his roommates, a chauffeur in addition to an electrician, portion a unmarried mattress on the flooring of their one-room flat. Sweaters in addition to trousers hang from pegs on the walls. H5N1 coral pinkish blanket is the only coloring inward the otherwise drab, windowless room. The academy is nearly an sixty minutes away, across a stagnant current that doubles equally a sewer in addition to along wide, dusty streets crowded amongst honking scooters in addition to xanthous Mercedes-Benz taxis from the 1970s. He can’t e'er afford the trip, so he misses a lot of classes. If of a abrupt he found himself amongst coin to spare, though, he knows he wouldn’t waste matter it on getting to school.
Ty McCormick in addition to Nichole Sobecki for Foreign Policy amongst an interesting long-read on onetime evolution challenges in addition to unlike responses to the "refugee crisis" inward Mali.

Industrial robots in addition to inclusive growth
Robots are non yet suitable for a hit of labour-intensive industries, leaving the door opened upwards for developing countries to go into industrialisation processes along traditional lines. Developing countries should encompass the digital revolution, including yesteryear (1) creating the managerial in addition to labour skills needed to operate novel technologies in addition to widely diffuse the benefits of their use; in addition to (2) establishing meshing links betwixt massive information storage in addition to the computing devices that powerfulness the increased utilization of robots. And all countries demand appropriate regulatory frameworks to avoid a few taking most of the benefits, including when creating digitisation-based novel products in addition to novel jobs. Any industrialisation strategy volition practise goodness from stable but expansionary global economical weather condition driven yesteryear sustained productive investment in addition to supported yesteryear broad-based global income growth. Such an surroundings is currently absent. In this sense, the novelty of industrial robots lies non only inward their greater orbit in addition to faster speed of automation alone, but also inward its occurrence at a fourth dimension of subdued macroeconomic dynamism. This tends to concord dorsum the investment needed for the novel engineering to create novel sectors in addition to absorb displaced workers and, hence, to pick out virtually the benefits that receive got characterised before technological breakthroughs.
Jörg Mayer for Vox amongst a nuanced receive got on how the challenge of 'robots' in addition to automisation volition effect evolution countries-it's complicated ;)!

New African literature is disrupting what Western presses prize
A “West subsuming Africa” create of critique plant fine for scholars amongst no existent peel inward the game of literary publishing. It also denies existent agency to a lot of African writers in addition to other literary professionals. On the Earth the literary acre is far to a greater extent than forward-thinking in addition to diverse.
There is an entire novel torso of African writing that escapes this shut circuit of damning truisms. H5N1 moving ridge of novel or late galvanised independent literary presses inward the U.S.A. of America in addition to the Great Britain are working inward tandem amongst some of Africa’s most generative outlets. Together they are publishing in addition to promoting run yesteryear immature in addition to adventurous African writers.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson outlines some of the changes of global publishing at The Conversation in addition to how novel literature from Africa is gaining attention.

Accountability debates: Looking back, thinking forward
Currently, run on corporate accountability appears to endure largely absent. Yet, given the electrical current debates on wellness equity, it’s vital to endure discussing accountability approaches which response to the growing entry of corporate actors into world wellness in addition to the growing marketization of local even wellness services.
In an era of increasing economical inequality in addition to deregulation inward a changing geo-political landscape, belongings individual actors to account, particularly for delivery in addition to stewardship of world goods in addition to resources, is critical.
All the to a greater extent than argue to gain insights in addition to larn from the before and, it seems, largely forgotten run on citizen-led struggles for corporate accountability.
While some of these questions inward the accountability acre receive got endured across the finally 18 years receive got endured, much has been learned.
John Gaventa for IDS reflects on to a greater extent than than a decade of enquiry on accountability in addition to novel challenges ahead.


I'm genuinely pleased to reckon Jenn Warren, an alumna of our ComDev program, involved inward this smashing podcast project!

Our digital lives
Philanthropy In an Era of Sweeping Social Movements
Foundation leaders coming from motion spaces tin increment a funder’s literacy virtually the acre in addition to the community. It tin also deepen racial in addition to political analysis. At Solidaire, for example, Rosheuvel is creating a political teaching computer program for donors inward the network in addition to beyond.
Especially for place-based foundations, hiring community leaders, non only funding them, tin create a large difference, Lateefah Simon says. “I think foundations receive got to hire locally. I think that they receive got to endure heartbeats of communities inward the same way that they facial expression the community organizations they're funding to be,” Simon says.
But beyond issues of staffing in addition to understanding, Simon also challenges funders to force themselves to portion the qualities in addition to passions they would facial expression from the people they fund: "I'm watching so many folks inward large spaces in addition to pocket-size spaces only genuinely mensuration out into this minute of philanthropy, where they realize… the chance to force ourselves, to endure only a piddling flake similar the folks we're funding—brave in addition to courageous, in addition to graceful yet bombastic. Those values are amazing. And nosotros receive got to alive that way too."
Tate Williams for Inside Philanthropy amongst some genuinely interesting thoughts on foundations inward an agile, mobile, digital age. There needs to endure a infinite for long-term engagement equally good equally to a greater extent than traditional models for organizations that don't receive got the capacity to acquire inward on the 'this is sexy in addition to happening correct now' radar in addition to yet practise grassroots run inward communities.

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
Mistaken predictions Pb to fears of things that are non going to happen, whether it’s the wide-scale devastation of jobs, the Singularity, or the advent of AI that has values unlike from ours in addition to mightiness essay to destroy us. We demand to force dorsum on these mistakes. But why are people making them? I reckon 7 mutual reasons.
Rodney Brooks for Technology Review on the hype to a greater extent than or less AI.

Know Thy Futurist
For the average person, it doesn’t genuinely thing if the determination to hold them inward wage slavery is made yesteryear a super-intelligent AI or the not-so-intelligent Starbucks Scheduling System. The algorithms that already accuse people amongst depression FICO scores to a greater extent than for insurance, or ship dark people to prison theatre for longer, or ship to a greater extent than police trace to already over-policed neighborhoods, amongst facial recognition cameras at every corner—all of these facial expression similar onetime fashioned powerfulness to the mortal who is existence judged.
Ultimately this is all virtually powerfulness in addition to influence. The worst-case scenario is non a vindictive AI or Sergey Brin non getting to celebrate his two-hundredth birthday. In the worst-case scenario, e-capitalism continues to run its course of instruction amongst ever-enlarging tools at its disposal in addition to non a skeptical fellow member of the elite inward sight.
Cathy O'Neil for the Boston Review looks at the futurist industrial complex.

Publications
Red Cross in addition to United Nations release guide on how to utilization social media inward emergencies
The guide is primarily written for people inward humanitarian organizations who receive got social media equally i of their responsibilities, but who are non able to depict on a whole social media squad to handle a crisis. The focus is on concrete, practical advice to create their run easier. For people who wishing to delve deeper, I included a large number of links to the best resources I know.
Check out Timo Luege's novel guide for ICRC in addition to UN OCHA on how to utilization social media inward humanitarian emergencies!


Information Economy Report 2017
The enormous orbit in addition to considerable doubtfulness associated amongst the side yesteryear side digital shift telephone telephone for to a greater extent than facts, dialogue in addition to activity yesteryear all stakeholders The analysis contained inward the Information Economy Report 2017: Digitalization, Trade in addition to Development contributes to this procedure in addition to proposes ways inward which the international community tin trim down inequality, enable the benefits of digitalization to achieve all people in addition to ensure that no i is left behind yesteryear the evolving digital economy.
Richard Heeks presents key findings from the novel UNCTAD study on the information economy.



Introducing our novel publication: the Gender in addition to ICT Survey Toolkit
The toolkit contains a laid of resources to assist organisations in addition to people collect this gender disaggregated data, amongst representative ready-made quantitative in addition to qualitative enquiry tools they tin utilization to empathize women’s access to, in addition to utilization of, mobile phones in addition to other ICTs. The toolkit also has sections on designing methodologies, how to analyse the data, in addition to how to grouping the information into themes around, for example, access, use, barriers to access in addition to use, meshing usage or mobile fiscal services.
Alexandra Tyers introduces Panoply Digital's novel toolkit inward cooperation amongst fhi360 in addition to USAID.

New Research seeking to improve imagery inward NGO campaigns
The recommendations inward the study are commendable but how many volition endure implemented inward reality? Giving copies of the images to the contributors is relatively uncomplicated amongst portable printers, but it is non real practical. Who volition endure accountable for this? The Great Britain office? The Country Office? The Photographer? More importantly how volition the procedure endure managed in addition to at what cost? It would endure to a greater extent than appropriate to furnish the contributor amongst the picture used inward its finally province e.g. adverts, poster, video. This is fifty-fifty less practical, in addition to whilst I’d dear to reckon this come about I’m non belongings my breath.
I’m genuinely intrigued virtually the proposal to prepare location in addition to linguistic communication specific resources to communicate picture utilization to a greater extent than effectively. This is an fantabulous thought in addition to something that could endure developed collaboratively across the sector. I’ll endure bold – is this something that DFID or DEC could facilitate?
David Girling for WhyDev amongst an overview of Save The Children's 'The People inward the Pictures' publication.

Debate the Issues: Complexity in addition to Policy making
The OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges inaugural invited experts from within in addition to exterior the Organisation to utter over complexity theory equally a agency to ameliorate empathize the interconnected nature of the trends in addition to influences shaping our socio-economic environment. Their contributions, brought together here, examine the assumptions, strengths in addition to shortcomings of traditional models, in addition to suggest a way to build novel ones that would receive got into occupation organisation human relationship factors such equally psychology, history in addition to civilization neglected yesteryear these models.
The OECD tackles complexity thinking. Duncan Green read the report for fp2p.

“The farmer doesn’t recognise who makes him rich”: Understanding the labour weather condition of women farm workers inward the Western Cape in addition to the Northern Cape, South Africa
This enquiry reveals that farmers are systematically violating laws that were introduced to protect in addition to advance the rights of farm workers. At the same fourth dimension authorities does non effectively enforce existing labour legislation yesteryear taking punitive activity against farmers. For the bulk of farm workers, specifically women seasonal workers, working in addition to living weather condition receive got non improved. In many cases, their vulnerability in addition to insecurity have increased. However, to fundamentally address the deep structural inequalities inward commercial farming areas,  labour rights cannot endure addressed inward isolation of broader procedure of agrarian reform. The vision of a transformed rural landscape must starting fourth dimension endure negotiated to ensure sustainable livelihoods, Earth tenure security, women’s access to health-care in addition to the alleviation of poverty inward rural communities.
Stephen Devereux, Glenise Levendal in addition to Enya Yde amongst a study for Oxfam FRG in addition to the High German Ministry for Economic Cooperation in addition to Development. Additional research, particularly on High German supermarkets in addition to their purpose inward purchasing inexpensive vino from South Africa, is gaining some attending inward High German media in addition to in that location are more documents on Oxfam's website, by in addition to large inward German.

World of Walls: The Structure, Roles in addition to Effectiveness of Separation Barriers
Saddiki examines both regular in addition to irregular cross-border activities, including the menstruation of people, goods, ideas, drugs, weapons, capital, in addition to information, in addition to explores the disparities that are reflected yesteryear barriers to such activities. He considers the consequences of the structure of physical in addition to virtual walls, including their touching on international relations in addition to the ascension of the multi-billion dollar security market.
Said Saddiki amongst a novel opened upwards access book.

Academia
How practise nosotros determine what nosotros research? yesteryear Terry Cannon
My greatest fearfulness is that the framework of institutional corporatism in addition to funding models has undermined our powerfulness to inquire questions virtually what causes a problem. Poverty, hunger, vulnerability (to hazards or climate change) are non only ‘characteristics’ of unlike groups of people. But this is how they are increasingly portrayed, equally amongst ‘lifting people out of poverty’, or ‘building resilience’. The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) say nada virtually what is causing problems of poverty, ill-health, hunger, pathetic H2O in addition to sanitation in addition to so on. But these problems are largely the termination of processes of exploitation in addition to oppression that must endure understood in addition to explained. In before times, that is precisely what evolution studies was doing. Increasingly it is hard to seek explanations for these problems: it is to a greater extent than awkward, in addition to nosotros cannot create ‘free’ choices to enquiry them. Development studies institutions are forthwith almost completely reliant on funding from governments in addition to evolution banks. These institutions are oftentimes beneficiaries of the processes that are causing the problems, in addition to receive got piddling wishing to investigate their origins.
IDS Research Fellow Terry Cannon for the ISS anniversary spider web log bespeak some genuinely tough questions virtually evolution research.

Is a Chinese teaching the best shot at success inward Africa?
Pragmatism dictates how many immature Tanzanians I spoke to view a Chinese education. Despite voicing unflattering accusations virtually Chinese workers in addition to Chinese products, a Chinese teaching was seen equally a logical pathway to securing well-paying reliable employment. This is evidenced yesteryear Chinese firms employing students straight through the Confucius Institutes for a growing number of available positions inward marketing, sales, architecture, quantity surveying, in addition to law. Many to a greater extent than Tanzanians are returning from mainland People's Republic of China afterward their undergraduate or postgraduate degrees in addition to setting upwards businesses which straight merchandise amongst the Chinese inward a number of capacities.
Paul Hicks for Africa Is H5N1 Country on how Chinese engagement inward Tanzania expands to educational opportunities.

MOOCs Are "Dead." What's Next? Uh-oh.
Where Udacity was trying to disrupt an existing higher ed market, their plans hinging on the phantasm of the “University of Everywhere,” adaptive software providers receive got a overnice trough of world funds to sup from, including coin specifically earmarked inward the late signed Every Student Succeeds Act.
Personalized learning software volition endure galloping through schools equally our latest teaching machine savior before nosotros receive got whatever evidence of its effects.
Strapped world schoolhouse districts welcome Gates in addition to Zuckerberg coin no thing what strings are attached because they are desperate. Gates lone has position $15 billion into teaching initiatives since 1998.
But both Gates in addition to Zuckerberg receive got legacies of only failure when it comes to meddling inward education.
The generosity is great, but the average oligarch’s agreement of the complexities of teaching is close nil. Combine that amongst the sort of hype bicycle nosotros reckon amongst engineering of only virtually whatever stripe, in addition to nosotros could endure looking at some real bad unintended consequences.
John Warner for InsideHigherEd on the fading hype to a greater extent than or less MOOCs a emerging novel hypes to 'fix' higher teaching through technology.

Is it fourth dimension for Finnish celebrities to salve the dark girls of a “developing country”?
With an astonishing accuracy, the stimulate video follows the pattern of celebrity humanitarianism seen inward other contexts. When the white Finnish celebrities mensuration out of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Airlines aircraft inward the unidentified “developing country”, they are followed yesteryear a grouping of dark men. Soon the scenes on the covert alter – create clean airdrome surroundings in addition to the receive got away latte are replaced yesteryear shantytowns. From behind their sunglasses inward the security of the SUV-car, the 2 white Finnish women glance outdoors. Upon their arrival inward the destination, the Finnish celebrity assumes the purpose of an expert. From the unnamed location, she explains to the Finnish audience the causal human relationship betwixt fry marriages in addition to fry pregnancies.
Liina Mustonen for AllegraLab adds ethnographic analysis to Finnish celebrity engagement inward 'Africa'.

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