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This week's review has a rigid humanitarian focus too lots of dandy people & initiatives are sharing novel work! But at that spot are besides donkeys, fancy information visualizations & snarky tweets!

Development news: UNHRC corruption inward Sudan; Republic of Burundi non happy most donkeys; within the Central African Republic; ODI, CGD, HHI on the futurity of the humanitarian enterprise; within Save The Children UK; rescuing 'safeguarding' from becoming a buzzword; a volume facial recognition projection for Zimbabwe; randomistas to the rescue! How to conference better.

Our digital lives: Taking downward philanthrocapitalists & neoliberal feminism; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fame.

Academia: Medical pedagogy nether fire; social media & harassment & more!

Enjoy!

Development news
Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, too making social change
“What anthropologists practise that bugs the heck out of me is critique. Be constructive for a change. … Why can’t an anthropologist larn how to contribute towards design? Learn how to contribute towards processes of co-production? Learn how to brand human beings truly thing inward the physical care for yesteryear which decisions are made?”
Ian Pollock for The Familiar Strange talks to World Bank economist Vijayendra Rao inward a refreshingly opened upwardly conversation.

Burundi 'insulted' yesteryear French gift of donkeys to village
The donkeys, bought inward neighbouring Tanzania, were given to residents of a hamlet inward Gitega say equally piece of occupation of a projection yesteryear a local NGO to aid women too children carry agricultural products, H2O or wood.
However, a presidential adviser described the projection equally "an insult to the nation".
Gabby Bugaga, spokesman for the Senate president, besides wrote on Twitter the French were "taking us for donkeys".
"Be honest, is the ass a symbol of a lineament or a flaw," he wrote.
Donkeys are non indigenous to Burundi.
On Sunday, Agriculture Minister Deo Guide Rurema asked a local administrator to "facilitate the immediate withdrawal of all donkeys that withdraw hold been distributed ... without respecting the technical physical care for of the distribution of exotic animals".
Al Jazeera alongside a timeless classic of expert intentions are non enough-introducing the incorrect 'gift' into a local culture...

Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, too making social change
“What anthropologists practise that bugs the heck out of me is critique. Be constructive for a change. … Why can’t an anthropologist larn how to contribute towards design? Learn how to contribute towards processes of co-production? Learn how to brand human beings truly thing inward the physical care for yesteryear which decisions are made?”
Ian Pollock for The Familiar Strange talks to World Bank economist Vijayendra Rao inward a refreshingly opened upwardly conversation.

China exports facial ID applied scientific discipline to Zimbabwe
Cloudwalk, a fellowship based inward South China's Guangdong Province, has signed a strategic cooperation framework understanding alongside the Zimbabwean regime for a volume facial recognition project, according to a controversy sent to the Global Times yesteryear Cloudwalk on Thursday.
The projection volition aid the regime build a smart fiscal service network equally good equally innovate intelligent safety applications at airports, railway stations too autobus stations, said the Science too Technology Daily.
The fellowship volition besides aid build a national facial database inward Zimbabwe, the paper reported Thursday.
"Zimbabwe has been suffering social safety issues, including robberies too shootings, so the scheme could aid inward this area," said Shen Xiaolei, an associate enquiry immature human being at the Institute of West Asian too African Studies inward Beijing.
Shan Jie for the Global Times...a stark reminder of how underdeveloped whatever discussions around privacy too implications of ICT4D truly are inward some African countries...a national facial database to grab the bad guys-what could peradventure travel incorrect ?!?

Ep. #15 Designing agency: Vijayendra Rao talks development, anthropology, too making social change
“What anthropologists practise that bugs the heck out of me is critique. Be constructive for a change. … Why can’t an anthropologist larn how to contribute towards design? Learn how to contribute towards processes of co-production? Learn how to brand human beings truly thing inward the physical care for yesteryear which decisions are made?”
Ian Pollock for The Familiar Strange talks to World Bank economist Vijayendra Rao inward a refreshingly opened upwardly conversation.

What the Randomistas Taught TOMS
By our agreement, [TOMS] could withdraw hold chosen to rest anonymous on the study; they didn’t…For every TOMS, at that spot are many more, both secular too faith-based, who are reticent to withdraw hold the impacts of the programme scrutinized carefully yesteryear exterior researchers…many organizations today proceed to avoid rigorous evaluation, relying on marketing cliches too feel-good giving to convey inward donor cash. TOMS is different…
Will TOMS’ novel methods piece of occupation better? Only randomization volition tell. Fortunately, TOMS is committed to doing merely that.
Alex Tabarrok for Marginal Revolution on how randomistas volition salve us all (and #globaldev, of class ;)!

What expert is religion?
Not everyone shares the line of piece of occupation concern alongside salvation at the middle of Catholic social teaching, but it does offering a rich vision of human freedom, 1 that contains both the textile too the ethical. By foregrounding the ethical, it recasts evolution equally a moral project, requiring policymakers, institutions too everyone concerned alongside the firm of human fulfilment to reverberate critically on their aims. It raises questions most the extent to which a programme or policy furthers ‘the good’. The physical care for of reflection too critical deliberation is besides key for Sen’s vision of evolution too human freedom.
Development must survive fundamentally based on a ground-up conversation betwixt people, wrestling most what matters: what non-material things matter, too inward what remainder alongside the material. The questions of ‘what is a expert life’ too ‘how ought 1 to live’ must survive perennial concerns of whatever effort aimed at human fulfilment, too must survive key to both theory too policy of development. While the answers to these questions mightiness stymie an unequivocal response, they are ever worth scream for if evolution is to enable human flourishing.
Manini Sheker for Aeon. I grip on the philosophical foundations for expert development-but I'm still puzzled equally to where this leaves religion...


Reflections on the Long Conversation Format: Staging More Authentic Conference Sessions
The long conversation is essentially a relay of timed two-person dialogues around a key theme.
The get-go someone interviews the second, scream for a serial of questions (some predetermined, some spontaneous), too so the get-go someone exits, the 2d someone becomes the interviewer, too a 3rd someone takes the stage.
Nicholas Carl Martin on LinkedIn on how a dissimilar globe of meetings too conferences is possible!

Our digital lives
The problem alongside charitable billionaires
What it does suggest, however, is that when it comes to giving, the CEO approach is 1 inward which at that spot is no apparent incompatibility betwixt beingness generous, seeking to retain command over what is given, too the expectation of reaping benefits inward return. This reformulation of generosity – inward which it is no longer considered incompatible alongside command too self-interest – is a hallmark of the “CEO society”: a guild where the values associated alongside corporate leadership are applied to all dimensions of human endeavour.
Carl Rhodes & Peter Bloom for the Guardian accept apart contemporary philanthrocapitalism.

How neoliberalism colonised feminism – too what you lot tin practise most it
The pressing query straight off is how tin nosotros sustain too broaden the volume feminist renaissance equally resistance, spell rejecting the logic of neoliberal feminism. How tin nosotros keep feminism equally a threat to the many forces that proceed to oppress, exclude too disenfranchise whole segments of society?
#MeToo has carried out of import cultural work. At its best, it has exposed how manlike someone entitlement saturates our culture. Ultimately, though, this volition non suffice. Exposure is non plenty for ensuring systemic change.
Catherine Rottenberg for The Conversation alongside some other reminder to resist that social modify gets swallowed yesteryear neoliberal power...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms alongside Global Fame
She is O.K. inward regulation alongside non beingness liked: she thinks that the want to survive liked is something that women demand to acquire over. H5N1 manlike someone friend of hers told her that Ifemelu, the principal grapheme of “Americanah,” was Chimamanda without her warmth, too she bristled at this, fifty-fifty though she idea it mightiness survive true. Why the hell are you lot judging her similar that? she thought. If Ifemelu were a male, would you lot await too want warmth? All the same, it is painful to survive attacked. “Ta-Nehisi Coates said to me in 1 trial that what wound him the most, becoming successful, was how much it was dark intellectuals who seemed to survive out for him, too I know what that’s like. I told him that there’s a circle of Nigerians who are resentful of my international success, too it’s really hurtful, because I want my people to want me well.”
Larissa MacFarquhar for the New Yorker alongside an first-class portrait of the Nigerian author too a dissimilar (?) variety of global/Nigerian/American celebrity.

Academia
51 essential rules for doing research
Julie Billaud & Alessandro Chidichimo for Allegra Lab...scary how many of these reules are currently non piece of occupation of my life or research...

Medical pedagogy a focus of violence inward conflicts
As a effect of armed too tearing civil conflicts, direct too indirect incidents withdraw hold targeted medical education's components including medical schools too faculties, teaching hospitals, libraries, professors too medical students across several countries located inward Africa, Asia, Europe too South America.
These attacks were outlined inward a airplane pilot study of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) entitled Attacks on Medical Education, published final month.
Wagdy Sawahel for University World News on a novel study too the importance of highlighting humanitarian impacts on higher education.

Social Media equally a Weapon to Harass Women Academics
As online spaces are increasingly used for world scholarship, too equally many aspects of piece of occupation inward higher pedagogy rely on an individual's distinct skills too reputation, women inward higher pedagogy cannot avoid using applied scientific discipline or social media, nor tin they abandon their identity online. Keeping soundless or avoiding online spaces is thus non an selection for most academics. And equally world too networked scholarship stands to brand positive too sizable contributions to our societies, nosotros must recognize that encountering unsavory audiences online is a fact of life too must survive dealt with.
George Veletsianos & Jaigris Hodson for Inside Higher Ed portion their enquiry on how to address social media harassment within academia.

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