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Hi all,

It's a sunny Fri afternoon inward Sweden! Enjoy stimulating readings, bully documentaries, a poetry form & the strange Tweet!

Development news: UN’s novel overstep humanitarian is a highly qualified white British man; revolutionizing mindsets at the WHO; ICC turns 15; how Liberian kid soldiers fought inward Iraq; refugee existent estate inward Kenya; are the best days for selling inexpensive Chinese goods inward Africa over? An overview over i of our favorite questions: Does unusual assist work? Republic of Uganda & the limits of entrepreneurism; the assist industry’s LGBTIQ blind spot; is localization of assist the answer? H5N1 exceptional subdivision on campaigning & communicating development; social media inward Africa; how to communicate equally a non-profit; NGO-Nothing Going On? 
 
Our digital lives: A poem; advice for novel bloggers; review ‘Twitter & Tear Gas’. 

Publications: World Bank’s Higher Education for Development evaluation; sex differences inward scientific collaboration (a newspaper written past times 5 men…); safety inward the vernacular.

Plus: Which tools to usage for analyzing Twitter for research?

Enjoy!

Development news
Be Careful What You Ask For
The give-and-take of localization is firstly to deepen. Here (summarized) is an opening salvo from Charles Lwanga-Ntale, manager of the Republic of Kenya Academy Centre: localization frequently seems to resemble ‘deconcentration’, a procedure whereby the systems in addition to structures of the existing humanitarian sector are exported downwards.
Mark DuBois, the Humanicontrarian, shares some interesting reflections on how to resist the localization discourse inward evolution equally a cast of putting faulty technocratic systems inward local house in addition to await miracles...

Outcry Over Photo Showing The Face Of H5N1 Girl Allegedly Being Raped
"This is the elephant inward the room: how nosotros thought the suffering of distant others," says human rights activist Robert Godden of Rights Exposure, which helps nonprofits in addition to governments practise effective in addition to ethical campaigns. "What if this photograph serial was taken inward the U.S. or the Great Britain — would the daughter receive got been presented this way?"
He adds, "Another skillful inquiry to inquire is: If this was a menage unit of measurement fellow member of mine, would I desire them portrayed similar this?"
Amid a barrage of protests from readers, photojournalists in addition to human rights activists, LensCulture took downward the photograph hours afterwards it was posted.
"But at this point, the mag said nothing," Chesterton says. "There was no statement, no acknowledgment of the absolute human rights abuse of that immature woman, of that child."
Michaeleen Doucleff for NPR Goats & Soda amongst an interesting ethics ground on representations of suffering in addition to the 'distant other'. 


Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of American Refugee Council, posted this on LinkedIn:
This is nearly what nosotros are doing inward response to Somalia famine. These guys from lovearmyforsomalia gave done such a bully job. Without them nosotros couldn't live getting to the places shown inward this video
The video was posted a duad of days agone in addition to already has 550K views.
As amongst most campaigns, my feelings are a chip ambivalent. The displace raised a lot of coin in addition to the fact that Jerome partnered amongst a professional person humanitarian arrangement was already a bully thought equally it reduces the touching of 'two white French dudes saving Somalia' narrative. The video is evidently an interesting illustration of contemporary...well, advocacy or campaigning really: It speaks to the correct audience (YouTube channel amongst 1.1 1000000 followers) in addition to comes equally a fast-paced introduction to Somalia in addition to the famine. Personally, I similar the residue betwixt SUVs driving through sand dunes (drone footage?), a few historical facts nearly the the world in addition to those 2 guys listening to people inward remote places. It's evidently really condensed, but I appreciate that this is non a ninety infinitesimal lecture, but at xiv minute YouTube video. I acquire a sense of these 2 guys willing to hear in addition to learn-it becomes quite political some the 10:00 mark.

Fly on the Facebook Wall: How UNHCR Listened to Refugees on Social Media
In “From a Refugee Perspective” UNHCR has at nowadays summarised their findings from the ten-month project. The principal affair I actually liked nearly this projection is that UNHCR invested the resources for proper qualitative social media monitoring, equally opposed to the purely quantitative analyses that nosotros run into then frequently in addition to which rarely move beyond keyword counting. To complement the social media information, the squad held focus grouping in addition to other discussions amongst refugees who had arrived inward Europe.
(...)
But inward the end, the squad did non engage online. Why they decided to solely live a wing on the wall, rather than portion information of their own, is non discussed inward the report. My approximate is that they were worried nearly existence inundated amongst questions, piece non having the capacity to respond.
Timo Luege for Social Media for Good introduces the Child Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War


How individual companies recruit onetime kid soldiers for military machine operations inward Iraq, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan in addition to elsewhere.
Mads Elleso for Al-Jazeera amongst an interesting documentary on the global dimensions of the privatized military-industrial complex.

Be Careful What You Ask For
The give-and-take of localization is firstly to deepen. Here (summarized) is an opening salvo from Charles Lwanga-Ntale, manager of the Republic of Kenya Academy Centre: localization frequently seems to resemble ‘deconcentration’, a procedure whereby the systems in addition to structures of the existing humanitarian sector are exported downwards.
Mark DuBois, the Humanicontrarian, shares some interesting reflections on how to resist the localization discourse inward evolution equally a cast of putting faulty technocratic systems inward local house in addition to await miracles...

Outcry Over Photo Showing The Face Of H5N1 Girl Allegedly Being Raped
"This is the elephant inward the room: how nosotros thought the suffering of distant others," says human rights activist Robert Godden of Rights Exposure, which helps nonprofits in addition to governments practise effective in addition to ethical campaigns. "What if this photograph serial was taken inward the U.S. or the Great Britain — would the daughter receive got been presented this way?"
He adds, "Another skillful inquiry to inquire is: If this was a menage unit of measurement fellow member of mine, would I desire them portrayed similar this?"
Amid a barrage of protests from readers, photojournalists in addition to human rights activists, LensCulture took downward the photograph hours afterwards it was posted.
"But at this point, the mag said nothing," Chesterton says. "There was no statement, no acknowledgment of the absolute human rights abuse of that immature woman, of that child."
Michaeleen Doucleff for NPR Goats & Soda amongst an interesting ethics ground on representations of suffering in addition to the 'distant other'. 


Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of American Refugee Council, posted this on LinkedIn:
This is nearly what nosotros are doing inward response to Somalia famine. These guys from lovearmyforsomalia gave done such a bully job. Without them nosotros couldn't live getting to the places shown inward this video
The video was posted a duad of days agone in addition to already has 550K views.
As amongst most campaigns, my feelings are a chip ambivalent. The displace raised a lot of coin in addition to the fact that Jerome partnered amongst a professional person humanitarian arrangement was already a bully thought equally it reduces the touching of 'two white French dudes saving Somalia' narrative. The video is evidently an interesting illustration of contemporary...well, advocacy or campaigning really: It speaks to the correct audience (YouTube channel amongst 1.1 1000000 followers) in addition to comes equally a fast-paced introduction to Somalia in addition to the famine. Personally, I similar the residue betwixt SUVs driving through sand dunes (drone footage?), a few historical facts nearly the the world in addition to those 2 guys listening to people inward remote places. It's evidently really condensed, but I appreciate that this is non a ninety infinitesimal lecture, but at xiv minute YouTube video. I acquire a sense of these 2 guys willing to hear in addition to learn-it becomes quite political some the 10:00 mark.

Fly on the Facebook Wall: How UNHCR Listened to Refugees on Social Media
In “From a Refugee Perspective” UNHCR has at nowadays summarised their findings from the ten-month project. The principal affair I actually liked nearly this projection is that UNHCR invested the resources for proper qualitative social media monitoring, equally opposed to the purely quantitative analyses that nosotros run into then frequently in addition to which rarely move beyond keyword counting. To complement the social media information, the squad held focus grouping in addition to other discussions amongst refugees who had arrived inward Europe.
(...)
But inward the end, the squad did non engage online. Why they decided to solely live a wing on the wall, rather than portion information of their own, is non discussed inward the report. My approximate is that they were worried nearly existence inundated amongst questions, piece non having the capacity to respond.
Timo Luege for Social Media for Good introduces the new UNHCR study From a refugee perspective.

The Definitive List of Anti-Poverty Campaign Ads
Writing a listing of skillful displace ads? That was a piffling to a greater extent than difficult.
Brendan Rigby for WhyDev wraps upwardly this subdivision amongst to a greater extent than skillful examples of how evolution issues tin live communicated well.

The Uses in addition to Abuses of Social Media inward Africa
A recent conference at the University of Edinburgh went “Beyond the Hashtag” to explore the touching of social media inward Africa. Don’t worry if y'all missed it, because Brooks Marmon has written this bully summary of the fundamental findings to convey y'all upwardly to speed.
Brooks Marmon for Democracy inward Africa amongst a bully overview over some of the electrical current debates inward the enquiry community when it comes to engaging amongst social media inward Africa.

Communications 101: Talking nearly your nonprofit
Over the adjacent few weeks, nosotros volition pose out a serial of detailed, do-it-yourself articles on how to practise engaging content for both offline in addition to online platforms.
In the meantime, hither are 3 things that y'all tin adopt right away to assist amongst your organisation’s communications.
Devanshi Vaid for the India Development Review kicks off an interesting serial of practical ideas on how nonprofits tin communicate better.

Film Review: N.G.O. – Nothing Going On

What appears to live a light-hearted in addition to entertaining comedy on how Ugandans screw mzungus over in addition to over i time to a greater extent than (in all aspects of life) is at its inwardness a deep critical reflection on the exponential growth of NGOs inward the the world – if non the sub-Saharan African continent.
Simone Datzberger for Africa at LSE. I'm curious to sentinel the whole documentary now, but this sounds similar bully nutrient for thought in addition to debate!

From the 'not actually evolution intelligence in addition to nonetheless really telling of the province of evolution inward the US' department...

 Golden career advice of the week:
Our digital lives
Play Theory
Her shoe tumbled from my trembling fingertips
I ever attempted to pose it dorsum onto the slender foot
But I realized that it was no use
I was powerless over this plastic daughter

And then I went to my computer
Where I entered into a world
Where I could manipulate everything
With solely a blank page
And a keyboard
From Understorey Magazine. Meredith Bullock is a 16-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy. She is inward flat eleven at Sacred Heart School of Halifax; her poetry form won firstly prize at the MSVU Girls Conference.

Brave in addition to Reckless’Advice for New WordPress Bloggers– Part 1
I knew nil nearly blogging. But I did know that all communities receive got their ain unique civilization in addition to through a combination of case in addition to error, generous mentors in addition to reading several actually skillful guides to WordPress, I found my soil here.
Christine Ray for Brave in addition to Reckless amongst some advice non simply for the WordPress crowd...

Anti-Authoritarian Book Club: Twitter in addition to Tear Gas
The curt version of Tufekci’s declaration is that social media render powerful ways for activists to organize in addition to to acquire their messages out, but that the types of activism receive got their ain drawbacks. Ad hoc movements tin gather quickly, both inward physical infinite (Gezi Park) in addition to online (#BlackLivesMatter), in addition to they tin deploy powerful viral messages (the Battle of the Camel). This helps them leapfrog over repression, interia, in addition to volume media censorship – but also over much of the institution-building piece of work that allows protestation movements to enforce message discipline, switch upwardly their tactics, in addition to lever their momentum into other realms. Their heavy usage of platform-based social media also leaves them vulnerable to algorithmic fragmentation, pervasive surveillance, in addition to disinformation campaigns.
James Grimmelmann for The Laboratorium reviews Zeynep Tufekci’s novel volume Twitter in addition to Tear Gas: The Power in addition to Fragility of Networked Protest.

Hot off the digital press
Higher Education for Development: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group's Support
Although this evaluation assesses past times performance, much of which predates the 2013 World Bank Group strategy, amongst its twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty in addition to promoting shared prosperity, the evaluation is intended to live forward-looking. Although higher teaching tin contribute to the twin goals, it is past times no agency guaranteed.
As interesting equally this novel World Bank study may be, it is presented inward the most technocratic in addition to bureaucratic way in addition to I uncertainty that I desire to pass likewise much fourth dimension reading the details...

Gender differences inward scientific collaborations: Women are to a greater extent than egalitarian than men
By analyzing a unique dataset of to a greater extent than than 270,000 scientists, nosotros discovered substantial sex differences inward scientific collaborations. While men are to a greater extent than probable to collaborate amongst other men, women are to a greater extent than egalitarian. This is consistently observed over all fields in addition to regardless of the number of collaborators a scientist has.
Interestingly, this PLOS open-access article lists 5 manlike soul co-authors...

Special Issue: Security inward the Vernacular
The exceptional number presents novel analysis in addition to instance studies, which aim to challenge in addition to refresh the established policy consensus some violence reduction in addition to security. They are distinctive inward focusing upon the vernacular or local understandings of those at the receiving terminate of directly in addition to structural violence; in addition to inward analysing the insurgent margins where violence in addition to insecurity are most concentrated.
The novel Peacebuilding exceptional number is opened upwardly access!

Academia
Using Twitter equally a information source: an overview of social media enquiry tools (updated for 2017)
Following his initial postal service on this theme inward 2015, Wasim Ahmed has updated in addition to expanded his rundown of the tools available to social scientists looking to analyse social media data. H5N1 number of novel applications receive got been released inward the intervening period, amongst the increasing complexity of for certain enquiry questions also having prompted some tools to growth their information retrieval functionalities. Although platforms such equally Facebook in addition to WhatsApp receive got to a greater extent than active users, Twitter’s unique infrastructure in addition to the near-total availability of its information receive got ensured its popularity amidst researchers remains high.
Wasim Ahmed for LSE Impact Blog amongst a actually useful overview over digital analysis enquiry tools.

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