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Critical nutrient for thought together with uplifting stories from around the #globaldev world from Nepal, Rwanda, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Colombia, the United States of America of America together with the Great Britain together with from within large assist arrangement - amongst a lilliputian sprinkling of tweet-able insights.

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Development news
Nepal's woman mortal masons dig deep to lay foundations for alter together with renewal
“Some people complained that it would remove keep women ii months to build it, but nosotros finished it on schedule inwards a month,” she says. “People admit that nosotros are capable now, fifty-fifty if they do non specifically praise us.”
Because of her edifice work, Ranjana is earning an income for the starting fourth dimension time – nigh £6 a day. “I used to live totally dependent on my husband’s money, but instantly I tin contribute to the children’s expenses. I tin stand upward on my ain feet.”
Sharmila Tamang has acquire a contractor, overseeing the edifice of 12 houses, amongst iii to a greater extent than nether way. “I do contracted run every bit if I was edifice my ain house. People state I run hard. We women remove keep acquire the starting fourth dimension selection for edifice a occupation solid inwards the village,” she says.
Pete Pattisson for The Guardian amongst a groovy storey from Nepal to grade the 3rd anniversary of the devastating earthquake inwards 2015.

Order of Canada recipient Peter Dalglish defendant of abusing children he pledged to help
A Canadian human who spent decades working amongst children’s organizations together with received the Order of Canada for his global contributions is instantly locked inwards a crowded detention jail cellular telephone inwards Kathmandu defendant of having sexual practice amongst minors.
Nathan Van der Klipp & Joe Friesen for the Globe & Mail amongst some other storey from Nepal, a well-researched investigation into the run of Dalglish together with the accusations that remove keep Pb to his arrest.

Where Countries Are Tinderboxesand Facebook Is a Match
A reconstruction of Sri Lanka’s descent into violence, based on interviews amongst officials, victims together with ordinary users caught upward inwards online anger, found that Facebook’s newsfeed played a fundamental work inwards nearly every stair from rumor to killing. Facebook officials, they say, ignored repeated warnings of the potential for violence, resisting pressure level to hire moderators or constitute emergency points of contact.
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Despite criticism together with concerns from civil social club groups, the companionship has done lilliputian to alter its strategy of pushing into developing societies amongst weak institutions together with histories of social instability, opening upward information spaces where anger together with fearfulness frequently tin dominate.
Amanda Taub together with Max Fisher for the NYT amongst a long-read on Sri Lanka, Facebook together with the nighttime side of ICTs...

The World Bank’s flagship study this twelvemonth is on the futurity of run – here’s what the draft says
Which brings me to the biggest blind spot of all – power. In the technocratic lala Earth of the WDR’s authors, the best results coming from the enlightened philosopher kings who are assumed to live inwards accuse around the world stepping inwards to adroitly enable everyone to ride the applied scientific discipline tiger, every bit the marketplace together with its novel gizmos rip through the status quo. What nigh imbalances inwards bargaining power, vested interests, political capture together with their consequence, rising inequality? Not much on whatever of those, I’m afraid. All inwards all, a fascinating document (when was the concluding fourth dimension a WDR quoted Marx, Nehru together with Lenin?), together with good worth closed study (I’m certain I’ve missed lots of gems). My overall take? History may live on the side of the optimists, but boundary weather condition on growth, together with technological acceleration could hateful that this fourth dimension actually is different.
Duncan Green for From Poverty to Power reviews the forthcoming WDR. This seems to live a example of 'everything has already been said - but non past times everyone' together with to me this questions the work of 'flagship reports' together with the World Bank inwards shaping developing discourses fifty-fifty to a greater extent than (see Tweet below...).



'Culture is power': the Colombian sexual practice workers who launched a newspaper
“This neighbourhood is depressing. It has a high grade of violence together with drug addiction together with many social problems, so nosotros desire to convey a lilliputian to a greater extent than happiness to the community. The projection could also hateful that people inwards the neighbourhood remove keep a flake to a greater extent than culture, because civilization is power.”
The latest edition has a gossip section, a “Monica recommends” column together with a budget recipe – how to brand a repast for less than 10,000 Colombian pesos (around £2.50) – for the poorly paid workers.
But La Esquina also covers to a greater extent than hard-hitting subjects, including the horrifying reality of botched plastic surgeries that frequently afflict the country’s transgender women.
Steven Grattan for the Guardian on an innovative media projection inwards Bogota (which despite all the transformation that cities remove keep been undergoing inwards Republic of Colombia is withal a stone oil identify for women).

Smart thinking from USAID on putting adaptive management into exercise
I justice nosotros westerners cannot avoid beingness westerners together with seeing the world every bit westerners all the time.
We locomote along seeing alter every bit the outcome of the actions of individuals together with leaders amongst specific traits together with skills, instead of perceiving every bit key the relationships amid them together with the basic weather condition that enable them to arrive at things.
Therefore the superabundance together with hypercentrality of “leaders” nosotros see… fifty-fifty when nosotros perform a literature review!!
Three out of the iv “implications for staff” focus on leaders together with key individuals. And the fourth, which is nigh teams, seems to process them by together with large every bit a collection of individuals, which “need infinite together with fourth dimension to prepare trusting relationships”.
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This is non to state that leaders together with individuals do non play a role. They do. But they are trees which affair every bit work of the forest. And adaptive management cannot acquire a serious thing every bit long every bit nosotros remain unable to see the wood for the trees. Obvious things similar “for adaptation teams matter, to a greater extent than than individuals”, or “you cannot acquire meaningful adaptation if people do non rest enough” demand to live recognised. What is the value of selecting together with contracting whatever incredibly goodness leader or key individual, if he/she volition locomote out inwards ii years, simply inwards fourth dimension to destroy the “trust” that was starting to emerge around him/her?
If expecting that the kernel of a squad stays together for v years to acquire an of import task done is something unrealistic for the assist industry… well, so nosotros are in all likelihood non trying difficult plenty when nosotros verbalise nigh “adaptive management”, together with nosotros are simply withal “blah-blah-blah-ing”.
Even though is was posted past times Duncan Green for From Poverty to Power, I am quoting Pedro Prieto Martin's comment which I retrieve is to a greater extent than relevant than the fancy visualization that has been shared...

A novel digital imperialism together with how to respond to it
I would scrap that a population amongst critical digital literacy skills would live the best defense forcefulness against psychological profiling, microtargetting, together with simulated news. National digital literacy campaigns could increase citizens' critical agreement around privacy, information security, fake-news together with agreement of how to combat gender-based together with race-based online violence together with loathe speech. This is nigh to a greater extent than than technical skills. Such programs would demand to heighten citizens' critical consciousness nigh the political economic scheme of information together with how nosotros tin run together to tackle online abuse together with applied scientific discipline injustice. In learning how to decolonise the digital world it volition live instructive to pull upon the literature on colonisation together with decolonisation including Albert Memmi, Audre Lorde, Paulo Freire, bell hooks together with Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Tony Roberts for IDS amongst some interesting nutrient for thought-but somehow I am afraid that it is already likewise belatedly to innovate critical evolution thinkers to the ICT4D debate...

Communicating amongst Communities during Conflict: “Mediated” avenues to inform those inwards need
When it comes to conflict together with post-conflict environments, passing on information to the population based on what is needed past times those who sense the crisis is a vital together with yet challenging task for assist organisations.
Valentina Bau for Peace Insight amongst a groovy overview over recent inquiry together with example studies on communication for evolution inwards conflict environments.

Our digital lives
A World Without Wizards: On Facebook together with Cambridge Analytica
The reporting on the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal has danced around this number past times invoking the adept sentence of researchers whose careers are tethered to the success of psychometrics. Wylie himself is withal inwards the psychometrics business. When he describes the overwhelming mightiness of weaponized digital propaganda, he is non a dispassionate analyst; he’s also drumming upward futurity occupation organisation opportunities. Stanford University Professor Michal Kosinski is also constantly interviewed together with profiled inwards articles nigh Cambridge Analytica’s psychometric breakthroughs. Kosinski has published several articles on the topic of psychometrics, together with is indeed a leading adept on the topic. But his side past times side grant, his side past times side paper, together with his tenure example all hinge on convincing peers, peer reviewers, together with the populace that psychometrics represents a important breakthrough. One should await him to offering an optimistic assessment of the electrical current together with futurity viability of psychometrics. Likewise, if yous inquire researchers at Cambridge University’s Psychometrics Center whether psychometrics is valuable to political campaigns today, what response do yous retrieve they’re going to give you?
Dave Karpf for Civicist amongst the best slice on the FB/CA topic so far!

Women inwards tech endure because of American myth of meritocracy
Yet the meritocracy myth, which my inquiry shows has a stronghold inwards the world of entrepreneurship, agency that women are constantly told that all they remove keep to do to acquire to a greater extent than of that $22 billion or so inwards venture uppercase funding is brand amend pitches or live to a greater extent than assertive.
The supposition is that women aren’t trying difficult plenty or doing the correct things to acquire ahead, non that the way venture capitalists offering funding is itself unfair.
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The side past times side stair is to motion away from gender-neutral approaches together with instead adopt “gender-aware,” proactive measures to alter unfair practices. This includes setting concrete goals to arrive at gender balance, examining the gender composition of boards, committees together with other influential groups inwards the organization, together with assessing the tools together with channels used for outreach, recruitment together with back upward of entrepreneurs.
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan for The Conversation on so of the myths the tech sector sustains to do the illusion of 'meritocracy'...

The GenderAvenger Toolkit: You Can Make Sure Women's Voices Count Wherever There Is Public Dialog
GenderAvenger.com went live inwards Feb 2014, together with it’s non hyperbole when I state “we’ve come upward a long way, baby.” Over the concluding iv years, we’ve called out conferences together with their organizers, called inwards those inspired to do the work, together with raised the bar for including women on stages, inwards magazines together with newspapers, together with on telly intelligence shows. H5N1 large work of what has enabled this run is our GenderAvenger Toolkit. Our community has been the inspiration behind its growth, which is instantly made upward of iv robust tools: the GA Tally app, weekly Action Alerts, the GA Pledge, together with the Stamp of Approval.
Elan Morgan introduces Gender Avenger's tools to speak our against the notorious #allmalepanel.

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