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Some of the highlights from this week's review: ICC prosecutes gender-based violence; how nosotros are getting Communist People's Republic of China inward Africa wrong; OLPC inward Madagascar; the blockchain refugee army camp inward Jordan; the value of communicating 'human experience' & inward Nihon an AI is running for a mayoral position!

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Development news
ICC prosecutes Islamist militant on groundbreaking gender-based charges
The old extremist fighter is defendant of a long listing of state of war crimes as well as crimes against humanity, including torture, extrajudicial punishments as well as participation inward a policy of forced marriage, which the courtroom argues “led to repeated rapes as well as sexual enslavement of women as well as girls”.
Jason Burke for The Guardian on latest developments inward how the ICC includes gender-based violence inward its charges for state of war crimes.

U.S. politicians acquire Communist People's Republic of China inward Africa all wrong
China is oftentimes lambasted every bit a nefarious thespian inward its African dealings, but the evidence tells a to a greater extent than complicated story. Chinese loans are powering Africa, as well as Chinese firms are creating jobs. China’s agricultural investment is far to a greater extent than small-scale than reported as well as welcomed past times some Africans. Communist People's Republic of China may boost Africa’s economical transformation, or they may acquire it incorrect — exactly every bit American evolution efforts oftentimes acquire awry.
Deborah Bräutigam for the Washington Post alongside novel evidence that suggests that China's engagement inward Africa is to a greater extent than complicated as well as nuanced than oftentimes portrayed inward the global North.

Former Senior United Nations Official Facing Pedophilia Charges inward Nepal
One of the world’s leading experts on humanitarian move alongside street children as well as children affected past times state of war has been arrested on pedophilia charges.
Brendan Cole for Newsweek with what could live some other #AidToo moment-this fourth dimension inward Nepal.

After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, tin nosotros verbalise almost information privacy inward Africa now?
This all agency it’s fourth dimension to start having a serious, educational conversation almost how today’s information fueled spider web actually industrial plant — as well as whether our information should live protected past times default.
Poor information practices are nil novel hither inward Africa. The Cambridge Analytica saga exactly provided a spotlight. But maybe at that spot is a silverish lining: With tens of millions of Africans using Facebook, this saga powerfulness spark improve laws, as well as a improve agreement of how the spider web actually works. And inward the meantime: Please read the price as well as conditions, no affair how hard that may be.
Linet Kwamboka for Quartz seems optimistic that the electrical flow Facebook debates volition receive got a positive impact on information privacy as well as protection inward countries such every bit Republic of Kenya or Nigeria.

Humanitarian answer inward Lebanon: changing social norms or reproducing them?
Although assist organisations are increasingly concerned almost promoting gender equality, when faced alongside people’s immediate needs as well as the urgency to addressing them every bit fast every bit possible, social interventions tin rely on, as well as reproduce, unequal gender roles as well as norms, rather than working to improve them. For instance, targeting mothers for information almost children’s wellness or teaching is valuable, but may live limited given that some women attain non receive got total mobility or fiscal agency to follow upwardly on the information as well as given that it leaves out the father’s purpose inward parenting.
Lana Khattab for open republic on a research projection inward Lebanese Republic that was led past times ane of my colleagues from our Communication for Development program!

How kids inward a low-income province exercise laptops: lessons from Madagascar
Laptops receive got introduced the children of Nosy Komba to previously inaccessible tools. But nosotros flora that master copy projects were limited. While applications used were designed to foster creativity, children demand back upwardly to prepare inventiveness skills.
Educators receive got a crucial purpose to play here. They tin assist to rear children’s creativity: the tin assist them to connect their lived sense as well as to limited their imagination to create master copy content. This volition unlock novel forms of facial expression as well as dissimilar kinds of literacy, including visual.
Sandra Nogry for The Conversation alongside a reminder that One Laptop Per Child is soundless around. Not quite surprisingly the research stresses the purpose of educators as well as a creative, social environs over the tool of the laptop. In what seems similar a blogging lifetime agone I wrote almost OLPC inward Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia inward 2012 (quite proud of my early on exercise of 'digital colonialism'...):
My estimate is that the transition from basic skills that may live taught through a laptop to secondary as well as third teaching skills that volition live needed to sustainable transformation are belike real hard to learn.
But to a greater extent than importantly, OLPC should accomplish out to critical voices to verbalise over their engagement as well as communication strategy that could live misinterpreted every bit an emerging shape of digital colonialism.
Inside the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan refugee army camp that runs on blockchain
Though Bassam may non know it, his see to the supermarket involves ane of the showtime uses of blockchain for humanitarian aid. By letting a machine scan his iris, he confirmed his identity on a traditional United Nations database, queried a household unit of measurement concern human relationship kept on a variant of the Ethereum blockchain past times the World Food Programme (WFP), as well as settled his nib without opening his wallet.
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The existent hope of using blockchains may non live realized until organizations similar the WFP as well as the United Nations receive got the courage to opened upwardly at to the lowest degree parts of the scheme to other agencies, as well as and thence to accept the bravest stride of all as well as plough over ownership of the information to beneficiaries similar Bassam, who currently has petty tell inward the affair because he has to live inward the scheme if he wants to eat.
Russ Juskalian for MIT Technology Review from the Zaatari refugee army camp alongside an update from the blockchain frontlines as well as WFP march to the forepart of the United Nations project design queue...

Opinion: But await until they run across your dark face
While assist organizations are finally coming to price alongside the lack of women inward leadership positions as well as seeking to remedy the situation, this volition non interpret automatically into to a greater extent than dark women inward leadership. Black women mostly receive got no internal champions to shepherd them through the politics of getting to the executive suite, nor are they groomed through the organizational pipeline for leadership roles. In a lately released impact study on gender as well as racial multifariousness inward the assist sector, Quantum Impact reported that of the 162 organizations analyzed, 4 out of 5 organizations (80 percent) had leadership teams that did non receive got a representative issue of people of color. Half of all organizations (51 percent) had no leaders of color.
Angela Bruce-Raeburn for DevEx on the challenges of POC women inward the evolution industry.

last week's review on how the Hewlett foundation desire to challenge traditional grant reporting.

Our digital lives
There's an AI Running for the Mayoral Role of Tama City, Tokyo
The Artificial Intelligence, which has been dubbed nether the advert Michihito Matsuda, seems to operate past times a elementary slogan; "Artificial Intelligence volition modify Tama City."
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If you lot assumed that artificial intelligence itself couldn't run for mayor, you're absolutely non wrong; that exactly happens to live where things acquire really interesting. The two-person squad pushing Michihito Matsuda consists of both Tetsuzo Matsumoto, the vice president of mobile provider Softbank ($74 billion revenue), as well as old Google Nihon representative Norio Murakami. Standing at the forefront of this all, however, is Michihito Matsuda.
Lachlan Johnston for Otaquest with enough of techno-philosophical nutrient for thought.

Escape the echo chamber
Is at that spot anything nosotros tin do, then, to assist an echo-chamber fellow member to reboot? We’ve already discovered that straight laid on tactics – bombarding the echo-chamber fellow member alongside ‘evidence’ – won’t work. Echo-chamber members are non alone protected from such attacks, but their belief systems volition judo such attacks into farther reinforcement of the echo chamber’s worldview. Instead, nosotros demand to onset the root, the systems of discredit themselves, as well as restore trust inward some exterior voices.
C Thi Nguyen for Aeon alongside a long-read essay on digital culture, filter bubbles as well as echo chambers.

Publications
Evaluating C4D Resource Hub: Launch at the Social as well as Behaviour Change Summit
The C4D Hub was developed through a three-year research collaboration alongside UNICEF C4D that aimed to duo the dissever betwixt adaptive as well as participatory evaluation approaches, as well as the to a greater extent than dominant accountability-driven, results-based approaches. The principles underpinning C4D value participation, inclusion as well as local knowledge. C4D oftentimes encompasses intangible as well as interconnected social changes, that are hard to predict as well as are ideally community driven. The C4D Hub is designed to encourage R,M&E that reinforces C4D principles as well as encompasses the complexities of social change.
Jessica Noske-Turner for Better Evaluation alongside an overview over their Communication for Development as well as Social Change tools.

Black Mirrors
Ezili’s Mirrors is of import because through it Tinsley shows us ways that dark femme life as well as dark queer life exists as well as asserts itself every bit other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, as well as the excessive. The mass illustrates how as well as why the figures of Ezili, alone ane goddess amid a pantheon, serve every bit such an effective foundation on which alternate dark narratives, representations, as well as ways of seeing receive got been built. Tinsley does non propose that the task of decolonial epistemological critique is easy. The challenge of extracting the oppressor implied inward Lorde’s quote is non dismissed. Instead, she proves that it is possible past times illustrating how creating as well as embodying epistemological alternatives has already been as well as is currently beingness done across the dark Atlantic.
Alexandra Smith reviews Omise′eke Natasha Tinsley novel mass for the New Inquiry.

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