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Links & Contents Ane Liked 253

Hi all,

In the end, I managed to describe a novel link review together for this week! 
Quite a few examples of evolution communication #fails, but also encouraging pieces on journalism inwards Nigeria as well as Afghanistan, woman somebody leadership inwards the United Nations scheme as well as personal & organizational well-being. Plus novel publications as well as contributions on the digital status of life, run & teaching!

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Reading #Maria through a #globaldev lens
This fourth dimension some other American territory is affected amid other islands many of which silent take away hold links to European countries through diverse statuses every bit overseas territories. So novel questions are emerging inwards the aftermath of a natural disaster of how 'them' as well as 'us' are linked, how humanitarian challenges are non merely an number of the 'North' helping the 'South' as well as how questions of evolution thinking as well as enquiry are becoming fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of import every bit climate alter creates a really global community of suffering, resilience as well as connected support.
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Secrets of the International Criminal Court Revealed
Set upwardly to prosecute warlords as well as dictators, perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity as well as state of war crimes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been undermined past times its one-time prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, allege #CourtSecrets, novel leaks from European Investigative Collaborations (EIC).
Ocampo plant amongst a massive network of businessmen, stars, journalists, professors, lobbyists as well as foundations, taking their advice as well as risking the confidentiality of the ICC’s investigations, the leaks claim inwards farther revelations to hold out exposed inwards the adjacent week.
This network benefits Ocampo’s career, world profile as well as banking concern balance, but at the expense of the workings of the court, which afterward xv years of existence, is silent to accomplish major results.
The EIC.Network is working on leaked documents inwards connectedness amongst the ICC as well as the well-known one-time prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo features prominently inwards the commencement piece.

Major companies neglect to give away slavery risks, say United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland experts
The degree of complacency from major companies, specially those that trumpet their corporate social responsibility, is startling," CORE's director, Marilyn Croser, said inwards a statement.
"Genuine transparency nearly the problems is needed, non merely to a greater extent than PR."
Emma Batha for Reuters News. You are in all likelihood every bit surprised every bit I am that PR dominates CSR activities as well as many companies shy away from looking likewise closely into their value chains...

Obesity Was Rising every bit Republic of Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.
Local wellness experts said most Ghanaians don’t pay attending to nutrition data. Indeed, the variety of world as well as political pressure level that has prompted KFC to create other changes inwards the West has non been felt much here.
The chickens are cooked inwards hot tubs of palm stone oil — a heart the companionship stopped using inwards the U.S.A. as well as Britain because, amid other reasons, it is high inwards saturated fats. Customers inwards most of KFC’s African markets must travel online to uncovering calorie counts, which are non on carte du jour boards similar inwards the United States. The companionship says at that topographic point is neither regime nor consumer clamor to add together them.
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It’s a quandary faced inwards numerous nations, from Republic of Republic of India as well as Brazil to Red People's Republic of China as well as Egypt: how to invite economical growth as well as displace beyond scarcity, back upwardly growing populations as well as urbanization, all without existence overtaken past times 2 of modernity’s principal markers, processed as well as fast food. So far, non a unmarried land has been able to opposite the growth of obesity, as well as only a handful take away hold succeeded inwards enforcing marketing reforms to boundary consumer exposure.
Dionne Searcey as well as Matt Ritchel for the New York Times. I bet KFC has an awesome CSR policy inwards place... 

Naija Data Ladies: The ascent of a network of women information journalists inwards Nigeria
A grouping of woman somebody journalists as well as information experts are working to alter the digital media landscape inwards Africa’s most populous province past times bringing greater gender multifariousness to the media tech community as well as increasing the production of data-enhanced intelligence coverage.
Established inwards Apr 2017, the Naija Data Ladies run to create as well as promote data-driven intelligence stories on wellness as well as evolution issues across major newsrooms inwards Nigeria.
Irene Wangui for ijnet amongst an interesting projection that connects local woman somebody journalism talent amongst global media evolution as well as newsrooms.

Rattling Afghanistan's powerful: Etilaat Roz paper exposes corruption
Now Daryabi as well as his staff revel inwards the variety of laborious journalism that unfolds, unglamorously, hunched over documents as well as spreadsheets. By examining dozens of ministries, embassies as well as consulates, Etilaat Roz lately documented how a modest clique of strongmen install identify unit of measurement members inwards powerful positions, debunking regime claims of breaking amongst the country’s toxic dynastic politics.
Sune Engel Rasmussen continues his fantabulous reporting from Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan for the Guardian.

Model Villages for the pitiful of Rwanda
Semi-permanent homes or thatched houses are a staple inwards African villages but travel out dwellers opened upwardly to the elements as well as without necessary amenities, Rwanda's model villages seeks to alter that. Rwanda's Vision 2020, says at to the lowest degree lxx per cent of Rwandans inwards rural areas volition hold out living inwards planned settlements past times the yr 2020.
Kylie Kiunguyu for This Is Africa. Something rubbed me a chip the incorrect way when I read 'model villages' every bit at that topographic point are plenty of examples throughout history as well as regimes that top-down evolution efforts similar this could Pb to uniform planning as well as social control.

Folks Are Mad At Stella McCartney For Ripping Off Designs That ‘African Aunties’ Have Been Wearing For Years
The latest offender of this age-old tendency of “fashion colonialism,” is high-end label Stella McCartney, who showcased items from their Summer/Spring 2018 collection yesterday during Paris Fashion Week.
The create infused ankara designs into their novel collection to create dresses, jumpsuits as well as tops, that facial expression a lot similar what our favorite aunties have on casually around the solid or to run errands. And y'all tin hold out sure that their have on is non cheap, merely peep the cost points on their website. Many of these items could real easily hold out sewn past times your local tailor in, let’s say, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, Dakar or Accra for less than a quarter of the cost.
To add together insult to injury, they presented these designs on a grouping of to a greater extent than ofttimes than non white models.
Damola Durosomo for okayafrica as well as the inquiry of why novel forms of globalizing civilization as well as fashion commonly come upwardly amongst a slightly bitter aftertaste of 'fashion colonialism', rather than articulation pattern projects. But it tin acquire then much worse (see below)...

How to Solve Global Poverty
The deceptive advertisement of complex derivatives, for instance, did contribute to the 2008 fiscal crisis. But he doesn’t distinguish his criticisms from his to a greater extent than full general condemnation of capitalism. Market failures attain off when private as well as social returns diverge. Cheaters turn a profit past times causing terms to others. The reply isn’t to supervene upon the marketplace scheme amongst social enterprises, but to target the marketplace failures as well as enforce laws or regulations against deception inwards fiscal markets. Mr. Yunus’s telephone telephone to scrap a scheme that works, all the same imperfectly, for a vaguely defined as well as unproven scheme that relies mainly on social entrepreneurship, is a far likewise risky project.
Bill Easterly reviews Muhammad Yunus' novel volume for the Wall Street Journal.

What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN
As Special Assistant to the Resident Coordinator, Linnea Van Wagenen coordinates the activities of the 17 dissimilar agencies that create upwardly the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone. (...). These United Nations agencies are hotbeds of activity, amongst dozens of initiatives inwards diverse stages of progress. Van Wagenen says that, to rest resilient, “a primal strategy is having many dissimilar projects on my whiteboard — as well as knowing what I should hold out working on now, versus what is inwards someone else’s hands.”
As amongst seeds tossed onto rocky soil, Van Wagenen accepts that non all projects volition germinate as well as deport fruit. She scans continuously for signs of progress as well as uses them to propel her squad forward, what she calls “catching the modest winds.” She explains, “In my coordinating role, lots of people cheque inwards amongst me. I maintain an middle on what’s going on as well as do whatever I tin to promote the goodness things that are happening.” This boosts her ain as well as others’ feel of meaning. As an example, she described a electrical current projection to construct an app for justice. “Lots of prisoners inwards Sierra Leone acquire stuck inwards jail for years because their illustration files acquire lost. This app volition aid people runway their cases inwards the jurist system. It’s a real meaningful project, then I desire to spread the word nearly it.”
Monique Valcour for the Harvard Business Review. I am real proud that an alumna from our ComDev MA program is featured inwards the piece! Well done, Linnea!

Burnout as well as Organizational Mindfulness
I no longer believe that meditation as well as self-care are enough. It tin sure hold out a starting point. It was for me. But nosotros can’t halt there. Otherwise it merely becomes narcissist self-care. I ever say that I tin meditate until I’m blueish inwards the face, but if my manager or the organizational civilization is toxic, my mindfulness volition aid me deal for a spell or aid me create the determination to leave, but it is non going to transform the organization. Things take away hold changed quite a chip since I started writing my weblog dorsum inwards 2010. Mindfulness is everywhere now. It has acquire a commodity. There are then many consultants out at that topographic point giving trainings on stress management, burnout, as well as resilience. But I holler upwardly some are missing the point. H5N1 workshop tin hold out a helpful catalyst, but inwards itself it won’t necessarily alter an organization’s civilization as well as way of working. It seems to me that organizations run the run a peril of wasting their coin on once-off trainings. Fostering a learning as well as caring run surroundings is the most effective approach to burnout prevention. The most successful organisations are the ones who essay as well as practise within the values they concord honey vis-a-vis the community they run with.
Alessandra Pigni talks to Organization Unbound nearly her volume as well as work.

Our digital lives
Instagram urged to deed on sloth selfies
The tendency for tourists taking selfies amongst local creatures is fuelling a ascent inwards animals existence snatched from the wild past times irresponsible tour operators, according to animate existence charity World Animal Protection.
The charity institute a 292% increment inwards the number of wild fauna selfies posted on Instagram since 2014.
It is bespeak the site to pick out activeness to "protect animals on their platform".
Instagram said it was working amongst experts to address the issue.
Jane Wakefield for the BBC on how digital civilization needs to novel forms of exploitation...

The labor of online production promotion: Barriers to collective action
Based on interviews amongst professional person bloggers as well as members of a grouping that I advert to every bit the flexibly unemployed, I describe the characteristics as well as run practices of these groups, every bit good every bit their interactions. I fighting that bloggers’ exploitation of the flexibly unemployed, together amongst their ideologies toward labor, deed every bit barriers to collective action. I conclude past times suggesting that, rather than imagining that workers from dissimilar classes volition uncovering mutual ground, communication systems should hold out developed that allow workers to network as well as part information inwards ways that are isolated from members of other classes as well as exterior of online run platforms that commoditize social relationships as well as interactions.
Daniel Carter amongst an opened upwardly access article inwards First Monday.

Publications
Decent Work inwards a Digital World
Women are also probable to hold out disproportionately as well as negatively impacted past times automation, as well as also less probable to hold out shaping decisions inwards the tech sector where they are under-represented. All of this has important implications for the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Government.
Becky Faith amongst a brusk 2-page overview paper from IDS.

Open mapping from the the world up: learning from Map Kibera
It concludes that open, community-based information collection tin Pb to greater trust, which is sorely lacking inwards marginalised places. In large-scale information gathering, it is ofttimes unclear to those involved why the information is needed or what volition hold out done amongst it. But the experience of Map Kibera shows that past times starting from the the world upwardly as well as sharing opened upwardly information widely, it is possible to accomplish rigid sector-wide ramifications beyond the compass of the initial project, including increased resources as well as targeting past times regime as well as NGOs.
Erica Hagen for Making All Voices Count amongst a novel paper on long-term engagement inwards the 'world's most famous slum'.

Academia
Violence as well as Vulnerability inwards Anthropology
“Why aren’t nosotros talking nearly this?”. Since joining the conversation on anthropology as well as sexual violence, I take away hold come upwardly to experience this inquiry is a existent as well as non rhetorical one. I regard the challenges of already limited resources as well as slow-moving institutions, forthwith nether threat of existence dismantled past times the state. These are issues that cutting across as well as beyond academia. But inwards this brusk slice I desire to advise that work of the job – as well as its solution – is specific to anthropology. I believe that 1 origin of our collective reluctance is the way sexual violence raises uncomfortable questions nearly the fact as well as practise of existence inwards the field. Confronting rape volition require, if non answering them, at to the lowest degree posing them openly as well as honestly to ourselves.
Alix Johnson for AllegraLab. I holler upwardly that this of import slice is work of a growing give-and-take on how organizations, individuals as well as 'industries' demand to address sexual violence to a greater extent than prominently-especially inwards the context of 'fieldwork'. The debates inwards the humanitarian sector as well as those inwards higher didactics complement each other inwards of import ways!

Coming to Campus to Teach Online
In short, the physical absence of contingent faculty from the halls of our subdivision helps maintain online didactics marginalized inwards our curricular as well as policy-making discussions. And that’s likewise bad, because ofttimes it is our online teaching faculty who are the most pedagogically creative as well as most aware of the needs of nontraditional students.
Despite my contingent status, I come upwardly to the campus daily because I similar my run as well as value the formal as well as informal interactions I take away hold amongst my faculty as well as staff colleagues. To hold out sure, applied scientific discipline enables me to communicate amongst my colleagues remotely if demand be, which I do when I’m at conferences or fifty-fifty when I don’t desire to walk downwardly the hall to inquire someone a question.
But my physical presence on the campus provides me amongst insight into the attain of issues as well as challenges -- many of them subtle -- that our subdivision faces, as well as it agency that I am available to serve when the demand arises unexpectedly. I pick out my identity every bit an online proficient to the tabular array inwards each as well as every conversation I have, whether that hold out inwards faculty coming together or when I grab java amongst a colleague inwards an endeavour to seat off grading for xv to a greater extent than minutes. My phonation inwards those conversations helps chip away at an educational hierarchy that prioritizes traditional methods as well as campus-based students.
Penelope Adams Luna for Inside Higher Ed makes some of import points nearly ensuring a physical presence of online teaching as well as teachers at the academy to avoid marginalization of the topic because students as well as classroom activities may hold out less visible.

New media, familiar dynamics: academic hierarchies influence academics’ next demeanour on Twitter
While professors do tend to follow dorsum their peers, they experience petty demand to do the same inwards the illustration of PhD pupil followers. PhD students, instead, eagerly follow dorsum professorial followers. Social norms on Twitter, thereby, may vary past times academic position. Remarkably, PhD students do non appear to consider Twitter a helpful tool for networking amid peers. The emerging academic world sphere facilitated past times Twitter is largely shaped past times the dynamics as well as hierarchies all likewise familiar to researchers struggling to plot their career paths inwards academia.
Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek & Christian P. Hoffmann for the LSE Impact Blog amongst findings from their enquiry that, in all likelihood non alone surprisingly, that academic hierarchies are replicated online rather than challenged.

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