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You’ll notice the novel layout; in that location receive got been a few problems with Blogger’s dynamic themes so I switched to a to a greater extent than traditional one. The weblog loads faster in addition to looks ameliorate on mobile devices, but is for certain non on a path for winning pattern awards…let’s view how I tin can tweak things a bit-and if y'all receive got feedback, comments in addition to complaints y'all know how to laissez passer me!Back to business: 
 
Development news: Kenya’s florticultural manufacture does non await rosy; saving children who don’t desire to hold upwards saved; permit Thousand Currents flow! Geo information in addition to U.S. airstrikes; the tricky discourse of ‘social accountability’; a goodness illustration of celebrity advocacy; ‘working from home’ in addition to the duty of care; the local-expat human relationship inwards the Philippines; digital technologies exclude marginalized people; immature manlike somebody MBA guy wants to ‘disrupt’ development; the heroines of Haiti’s revolution; award-winning documentary on coco farmers inwards Ghana; ISIS in addition to long-term effects of indoctrinating children.

Our digital lives: How valuable is facebook information really?

Academia: How many interviews in addition to focus groups are (good) enough? Academography.

Enjoy!

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U.S. Signals Possible Airstrikes inwards Somalia past times Asking Aid Groups for Their Locations
“It is non unusual that when in that location is a ramp upwards inwards U.S. armed forces twenty-four hr menstruation of the month in addition to a bombing create somewhere — every bit is at nowadays signaled past times the White House with the Somalia proclamation — that USAID would laissez passer out to humanitarian partners to acquire deconfliction information to ensure that the armed forces create doesn’t inadvertently target humanitarians,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, manager of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance during Obama’s 2nd term.
Samuel Oakford for The Intercept on how humanitarian assistance organizations may hold upwards indirectly forced to cooperate with the USA armed forces in addition to how geo-location information becomes a powerful tool inwards contemporary warfare...

Social Accountability from the Trenches: 6 Critical Reflections
Social accountability is recognition that in that location exists a lack of twenty-four hr menstruation of the month with Earth institutions that are so critical to our daily lives, a lack of influence inwards decision-making in addition to to a greater extent than importantly, a lack of vocalism for expressing our needs, concerns in addition to demands. We believe that social accountability approaches enable citizens, peculiarly the voiceless in addition to the powerless, to engage with province institutions inwards a proactive in addition to constructive way to demand in addition to exact accountability in addition to responsiveness.
Gopa Kumar Thampi for the Global Partnership for Social Accountability is spot-on with his 6 issues on how social accountability tin can displace from discourse to critical do for social change!

Accountability in addition to celebrity
Done right, deploying the talents of famous people to heighten awareness in addition to funds tin can convey payoff to both celebrities in addition to people hitting past times humanitarian disasters. But without theater evidence, my gut tells me that inwards the triangular human relationship betwixt celebrities, assistance agencies in addition to affected people, it is the celebrities who come upwards out on top.
Nick van Praag for Ground Truth Solutions recaps some essential aspects of celebrity twenty-four hr menstruation of the month inwards humanitarian aid.

The Assault on Journalism (book review)
Many topics of this edited volume resonate with electrical flow debates inwards humanitarian assistance in addition to the assistance manufacture to a greater extent than broadly, for illustration mental health, staff safety, novel forms of local-expat collaborations in addition to the chances in addition to limitations of digital tools. Many of the chapters also advise to me that issues to a greater extent than or less journalism in addition to ‘media development’ may acquire to a greater extent than closely aligned with other pith areas of ‘real’ development. This is non exactly almost ‘communicating development’, but almost engaging with inequalities or injustices that oft are the rootage causes that evolution tries to tackle.
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This is a bang-up open-access collection that goes far beyond journalism security in addition to highlights many of import issues inwards communicating evolution in addition to social alter topics inwards our mediatized world!
U.S. Signals Possible Airstrikes inwards Somalia past times Asking Aid Groups for Their Locations
“It is non unusual that when in that location is a ramp upwards inwards U.S. armed forces twenty-four hr menstruation of the month in addition to a bombing create somewhere — every bit is at nowadays signaled past times the White House with the Somalia proclamation — that USAID would laissez passer out to humanitarian partners to acquire deconfliction information to ensure that the armed forces create doesn’t inadvertently target humanitarians,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, manager of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance during Obama’s 2nd term.
Samuel Oakford for The Intercept on how humanitarian assistance organizations may hold upwards indirectly forced to cooperate with the USA armed forces in addition to how geo-location information becomes a powerful tool inwards contemporary warfare...

Social Accountability from the Trenches: 6 Critical Reflections
Social accountability is recognition that in that location exists a lack of twenty-four hr menstruation of the month with Earth institutions that are so critical to our daily lives, a lack of influence inwards decision-making in addition to to a greater extent than importantly, a lack of vocalism for expressing our needs, concerns in addition to demands. We believe that social accountability approaches enable citizens, peculiarly the voiceless in addition to the powerless, to engage with province institutions inwards a proactive in addition to constructive way to demand in addition to exact accountability in addition to responsiveness.
Gopa Kumar Thampi for the Global Partnership for Social Accountability is spot-on with his 6 issues on how social accountability tin can displace from discourse to critical do for social change!

Accountability in addition to celebrity
Done right, deploying the talents of famous people to heighten awareness in addition to funds tin can convey payoff to both celebrities in addition to people hitting past times humanitarian disasters. But without theater evidence, my gut tells me that inwards the triangular human relationship betwixt celebrities, assistance agencies in addition to affected people, it is the celebrities who come upwards out on top.
Nick van Praag for Ground Truth Solutions recaps some essential aspects of celebrity twenty-four hr menstruation of the month inwards humanitarian aid.

Why prospects of bloom farms don’t await so rosy
A farther await at the numbers shows that the value of horticultural — in addition to specifically cutting bloom — production went downwards later 2012 for 3 consecutive years in addition to only rose final year. During those 3 years, some companies were so adversely affected that some closed shop.
No wonder experts receive got poured mutual coldness H2O on undertaking availability in addition to the sector’s potential to create job, with floriculture the worst affected. In fact the manufacture is haemorrhaging jobs every bit bloom farms move through a fossil oil patch or are exclusively closed down.
Bernardine Mutano in addition to Macharia Mwangi for Business Daily with a familiar pattern on how 'business' is supposed to elevator 'Africa' out of poverty, but that many industries are real fickle to global movements in addition to oft attain non contribute to long-term sustainable growth in addition to job options.

U.S. Signals Possible Airstrikes inwards Somalia past times Asking Aid Groups for Their Locations
“It is non unusual that when in that location is a ramp upwards inwards U.S. armed forces twenty-four hr menstruation of the month in addition to a bombing create somewhere — every bit is at nowadays signaled past times the White House with the Somalia proclamation — that USAID would laissez passer out to humanitarian partners to acquire deconfliction information to ensure that the armed forces create doesn’t inadvertently target humanitarians,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, manager of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance during Obama’s 2nd term.
Samuel Oakford for The Intercept on how humanitarian assistance organizations may hold upwards indirectly forced to cooperate with the USA armed forces in addition to how geo-location information becomes a powerful tool inwards contemporary warfare...

Social Accountability from the Trenches: 6 Critical Reflections
Social accountability is recognition that in that location exists a lack of twenty-four hr menstruation of the month with Earth institutions that are so critical to our daily lives, a lack of influence inwards decision-making in addition to to a greater extent than importantly, a lack of vocalism for expressing our needs, concerns in addition to demands. We believe that social accountability approaches enable citizens, peculiarly the voiceless in addition to the powerless, to engage with province institutions inwards a proactive in addition to constructive way to demand in addition to exact accountability in addition to responsiveness.
Gopa Kumar Thampi for the Global Partnership for Social Accountability is spot-on with his 6 issues on how social accountability tin can displace from discourse to critical do for social change!

Accountability in addition to celebrity
Done right, deploying the talents of famous people to heighten awareness in addition to funds tin can convey payoff to both celebrities in addition to people hitting past times humanitarian disasters. But without theater evidence, my gut tells me that inwards the triangular human relationship betwixt celebrities, assistance agencies in addition to affected people, it is the celebrities who come upwards out on top.
Nick van Praag for Ground Truth Solutions recaps some essential aspects of celebrity twenty-four hr menstruation of the month inwards humanitarian aid.

When NGOs relieve children who don't desire to hold upwards saved
When it comes to children, 1 of the most powerful of these is that they are all inherently vulnerable in addition to thus inwards danger when at run or on the move. The termination is that many migrant working children are automatically assumed to hold upwards victims of trafficking when they are away from home, with the blame pose variously on irresponsible parents, weak states, or abstract poverty. United Nations staff are taught to hollo back similar this, in addition to the journalists who interview them are inevitably taught to hollo back the same.
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Almost overnight, thousands were set off, with many ending upwards inwards far worse weather - on the street, inwards sexual practice work, or inwards unsafe factories fifty-fifty farther nether the radar. Surely it would receive got been ameliorate for him to address the mightiness of USA corporations buying from Bangladeshi factories, demanding an extension of labour rights in addition to goodness pay all the way downwards to the immature workers inwards question?
Neil Howard for Al-Jazeera with a real interesting long-read on perceptions of 'beneficiaries', media representations of 'vulnerable children' in addition to an assistance manufacture that oft ignores complexities to a greater extent than or less children in addition to work.

'International development' is a loaded term. It's fourth dimension for a rethink
Today, Thousand Currents is focused on addressing our shared global challenges, non exactly the issues faced past times a marginalised community or a miserable country. That requires novel approaches from donors inwards acknowledgement of this complexity – unrestricted fiscal support, multi-year timeframes, in addition to novel skills in addition to personnel that reverberate the basis nosotros desire to see.
We dropped “international development” from our name, because when small, even so formidable pockets of people mightiness come upwards together, that’s when Thousand Currents sees results.
Jennifer Lentfer for Guardian Global Development Professionals on why IDEX changed its hollo to Thousand Currents!

U.S. Signals Possible Airstrikes inwards Somalia past times Asking Aid Groups for Their Locations
“It is non unusual that when in that location is a ramp upwards inwards U.S. armed forces twenty-four hr menstruation of the month in addition to a bombing create somewhere — every bit is at nowadays signaled past times the White House with the Somalia proclamation — that USAID would laissez passer out to humanitarian partners to acquire deconfliction information to ensure that the armed forces create doesn’t inadvertently target humanitarians,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, manager of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance during Obama’s 2nd term.
Samuel Oakford for The Intercept on how humanitarian assistance organizations may hold upwards indirectly forced to cooperate with the USA armed forces in addition to how geo-location information becomes a powerful tool inwards contemporary warfare...

Social Accountability from the Trenches: 6 Critical Reflections
Social accountability is recognition that in that location exists a lack of twenty-four hr menstruation of the month with Earth institutions that are so critical to our daily lives, a lack of influence inwards decision-making in addition to to a greater extent than importantly, a lack of vocalism for expressing our needs, concerns in addition to demands. We believe that social accountability approaches enable citizens, peculiarly the voiceless in addition to the powerless, to engage with province institutions inwards a proactive in addition to constructive way to demand in addition to exact accountability in addition to responsiveness.
Gopa Kumar Thampi for the Global Partnership for Social Accountability is spot-on with his 6 issues on how social accountability tin can displace from discourse to critical do for social change!

Accountability in addition to celebrity
Done right, deploying the talents of famous people to heighten awareness in addition to funds tin can convey payoff to both celebrities in addition to people hitting past times humanitarian disasters. But without theater evidence, my gut tells me that inwards the triangular human relationship betwixt celebrities, assistance agencies in addition to affected people, it is the celebrities who come upwards out on top.
Nick van Praag for Ground Truth Solutions recaps some essential aspects of celebrity twenty-four hr menstruation of the month inwards humanitarian aid.

Letter From Iraq: Cutting Transatlantic Aid And Turning Away Refugees Is Immoral
Young Americans in addition to Brits inwards detail receive got a purpose to play. They tin can no longer chalk upwards bad policies to politicians backed past times their parents. To those who say, nosotros receive got plenty problems at abode without taking on these international challenges, nosotros say, permit us address both past times tackling both. It’s ‘both and’, non ‘either or’. Our international policies, later all, are reflections of the province of our society’s soul. Let’s demand that our leaders correspond our interests abroad past times acting inwards the interests of those inwards demand abroad.
Not to human activity is to act. Not to speak is to speak. Inaction tin can hold upwards a unique version of cruelty. We are at peril of abandoning the major achievements of the 20th Century - the widespread recognition that rights of protection extend to all people past times elementary fact of beingness human.
Marcus Mumford for Huffington Post with a goodness illustration on how celebrities tin can communicate development. Assuming that he wrote the slice himself (or was at to the lowest degree involved inwards the writing) this is a real goodness illustration of how celebrities tin can job their 'power' to communicate in addition to advocate.

When ‘working from home’ isn’t every bit overnice every bit it sounds
A) because it meant non only living with your colleagues, which is bad enough, but also turning your abode into an office. As an assistance worker told me “it drives y'all crazy” B) because past times the fourth dimension y'all settled into the job, it was fourth dimension to leave. On transcend of that it could receive got had serious legal consequences similar this province of affairs illustrates:
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But what happens when y'all don’t receive got a abode to move dorsum to in addition to when your abode is a unsafe war-zone? It’s fourth dimension that INGOs realise that staff attention does non exactly hateful a session with a psychologist pre or post service deployment, or a preparation on psychosocial support. It’s almost caring for your staff past times complying also with legal matters. That’s mayhap why some prefer to telephone telephone it “duty of care”.
Alessandra Pigni for Mindfulnext with an of import reminder on how to render a rubber run surroundings when the expat lifestyle magazines tell y'all that all y'all demand is a laptop in addition to y'all tin can run from 'anywhere'...

The local – expat relationship: its complicated.
A 2nd inquiry probed for an additional dimension of this same topic. Nearly one-half -49%- of the respondents noted, regarding interactions with their unusual colleges, that, “They hear to the advice of local people in addition to examine to sympathise the local context/culture sometimes (emphasis added).” Another 8% indicated, “They rarely hear to the advice of local people nor examine to sympathise the local context/culture.” In amount good over one-half -57%- responded inwards a way that indicates they experience less than fully respected past times their expat counterparts.
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So here’s what I am seeing from the quantitative data. Filipino assistance workers believe they are getting compensated far less for doing the same job, many feel that expats experience they are superior to them, experience less than respected past times their expat colleagues, in addition to yet, tellingly, the vast bulk receive got a positive experience working with expats.
Tom Arcaro continues his inquiries into the complex relationships of assistance workers inwards the Philippines.

Digital technologies exclude
I rest optimistic almost the potential for using digital technologies inwards social jurist in addition to human development. We institute initiatives inwards Philippines that truly inspire optimism, but nosotros also demand to hold upwards mindful of the potential for engineering scientific discipline to exclude the most marginalised.
There are e'er imaginative ways to secure the participation of marginalised groups, including blending offline in addition to online activities in addition to using analogue every bit good every bit digital technologies. The primary take-away from the inquiry so far has been underscoring the lesson that if nosotros intend digital evolution initiatives to include the most marginalised, in addition to then nosotros demand to pattern for equity from the outset.
Tony Roberts for Making All Voices Count shares his reflections on digital evolution inwards the Philippines.

When is giving to charity the incorrect thing to do?
We also demand to hold upwards witting consumers in addition to harness the democratic purpose of the marketplace position economic scheme to signal demand for vertically integrated ethics inwards the economy.
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We also demand goodness people working inwards business. Business is the normative way inwards which people rising out of poverty.
Amy MacMillan Bankson for MIT Management Sloan School. There was quite a chip of give-and-take on my facebook almost this piece-a immature white manlike somebody MBA pupil talking almost 'fixing development' past times embracing consumerist capitalistic recipes; Being a 'good' consumer in addition to making sure that 'good' people run inwards job concern is most probable non leading to social transformation in addition to sustainable development...

Heroines of the Haitian Revolution
For Anglophone readers in addition to students, Dance is an ideal way to come inwards the basis of colonial Saint-Domingue in addition to the Haitian Revolution. The novel does non focus on the uprising of the enslaved inwards Saint-Domingue’s Northern Province, depicted inwards Carpentier’s well-known The Kingdom of This World. Instead, it focuses on Port-au-Prince in addition to the colony’s Western Province, where planters battling 1 some other start armed their slaves. Vieux-Chauvet brings this complex in addition to swirling political in addition to armed forces conflict to brilliant life, with many fundamental revolutionary figures, including Vincent Ogé in addition to Alexandre Petion, appearing every bit characters inwards the novel.
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Dance on the Volcano, similar Vieux-Chauvet’s other works, disrupts in addition to disturbs, inwards constituent because of the counterpoint betwixt moments of softness in addition to of harshness, possibility in addition to terror, dreams of alter in addition to the reality of a scheme that closes inwards in addition to traps us. At the middle of the stories she tells inwards Dance, in addition to inwards all of her novels, is the thought that fine art is a way of refusing the silencing, cruelty, in addition to devastation of life at the catch of whatsoever social monastic tell based on exclusion in addition to violence.
Laurent Dubois for Public Books reviews a novel novel from Haiti.

University celluloid scoops Higher Education Oscar
Telling the even of life for woman somebody cocoa farmers inwards Ghana, the celluloid uses participatory video - whereby woman somebody farmers used video cameras to nautical chart aspects of their lives – to highlight how access to land, upper-case missive of the alphabet in addition to markets oft remains the preserve of men. Despite their efforts, this shows how women’s mightiness to reap the fiscal rewards of their efforts is oft limited.
Congratulations to my one-time IDS DPhil colleague Elizabeth Fortin who every bit involved inwards the award-winning documentary!

ISIS schools in addition to indoctrination of children
One of the biggest mistakes of the western basis inwards recent years has been to underestimate the long term formation of Islamic State’s ideology in addition to state, armed forces capabilities in addition to brutality. By learning from this error nosotros must at nowadays increase in addition to part knowledge almost the issues above, collaborate on preventive measures in addition to uncovering ways to bargain with the upcoming in addition to long-term threat towards western societies, but mayhap fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of import a major social evolution dimension inwards the part with a growing generation of children who receive got lived nether Islamic State ruling in addition to indoctrinating tentacles of “education”.
Michael Krona is 1 of my subdivision colleagues in addition to does important, amazing, mind-boggling inquiry on the basis of ISIS in addition to its mediatized ideological ecosystems.

Our digital lives
I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell y'all almost ads
Converting Facebook information into coin is harder than it sounds, to a greater extent than oft than non because the vast mass of your user information is worthless. Turns out your blotto-drunk political party pics in addition to flirty co-worker messages receive got no commercial value whatsoever.
But occasionally, if used real cleverly, with lots of machine-learning iteration in addition to systematic trial-and-error, the canny marketer tin can uncovering exactly the correct admixture of age, geography, fourth dimension of day, in addition to music or celluloid tastes that demarcate a demographic winner of an audience. The “clickthrough rate”, to job the advertiser’s parlance, doesn’t lie.
Antonio Garcia-Martinez for The Guardian with an of import reminder non to trust everything y'all hear almost the mightiness in addition to value of facebook data. Facebook sells advertising, thence it doesn't hear if 'we' believe that it sits on this mount of valuable information that companies are keen to exploit for their marketing. Just because this is facebook's job concern model does non hateful that the information is really that valuable.

Academia

Riddle me this: How many interviews (or focus groups) are enough?
These information from our report advise that a sample size of 2 to 3 focus groups volition probable capture almost 80% of themes on a theme — including those most broadly shared — inwards a report with a relatively homogeneous population, in addition to using a semi-structured guide. As few every bit 3 to 6 focus groups are probable plenty to position 90% of of import themes.
Emily Namey for FHI360 with a inquiry many students volition inquire at some dot during their preparation for their thesis work...

Academography in addition to Disciplinary Ethnocentrism
In whatsoever case, inwards 1 of those predictable ironies of academic history, ethnocentrism tin can afflict non exactly the “traditional” disciplines, but also the to a greater extent than contemporary interdisciplinary fields that receive got emerged with them. One would think, for instance, that Science in addition to Technology Studies in addition to the to a greater extent than recently-inaugurated Critical University Studies would hold upwards closely linked together. I would for certain hope so, since that my ain run focuses on the links betwixt French academy politics in addition to the epistemic civilization of a left-wing French philosophy department. And even so I find, to my considerable dismay, that these 2 piffling worlds are deeply segregated from each other, every bit if nosotros faced an “ethnocentrism of interdisciplines.”
Eli Thorkelson for Platypus with a bang-up post service on studying (academic) organizations. I hollo back that ethnocentrism is only 1 of import aspect of 'academography'; anthropology inwards this land is real goodness at 'studying down', looking at teachers, adjuncts or students, but less powerful inwards studying upwards (yet). I haven't come upwards across an ethnography of academy board meetings, salary negotiations with senior administration or an 'Inside the REF' account-not exactly a journalistic long-read, but a existent ethnography. So lots to uncovering inwards our ain organizations...

Contingent No More
The pith self-worth of the typical American academic is deeply invested inwards the notion that we’ve spent most of our lives rising to the transcend through determination in addition to intelligence. And every bit a reactionary in addition to masochistic correlate to that faith, nosotros harshly link each other’s professional person failures in addition to our ain to some presumed lack of such qualities. We experience similar it would diminish our life’s run to acknowledge inwards world that, actually, the scheme is rigged, that many of our successes are due to a greater extent than to luck than anything else, that most of the “best work” is non beingness produced at all because the collective, variable talents of our community of thinkers in addition to teachers in addition to partners are beingness wasted inwards the competitive pursuit of individualistic success that our livelihoods depend on.
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It’s also truthful that loving something agency y'all volition struggle for it—and that’s increasingly the only selection nosotros receive got left. But this struggle is vastly complicated past times the realization that what we’re really fighting for—an independent, communal, decently compensated life of the mind—has been taken hostage past times the real thing we’re at nowadays fighting against: the ever to a greater extent than corporatized in addition to compromised higher teaching scene.
Maximillian Alvarez for The Baffler on The Academy.

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