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Your fresh Fri nutrient for thought!

Development news: Humanitarian crises inward 2018; an first-class long-read most the protracted crisis inward together with around Chad; NGOs blocked from WTO summit; humanitarian information breach; WFP & the blockchain hype; the usage of untested 'innovation' vs. humanitarian police pull & principles; Uganda's lucrative orphanage complex; visualizing #globaldev from Barbie Savior to woman somebody state of war photographer; from banker to peacekeeper; the linguistic communication of sexual exploitation; fiction from Nigeria; transformational modify leadership; journalism from Sri Lanka & xxx things to shout upwards about.

Our digital lives: China's wheel graveyard; facebook enters mentoring, learning & education; the image(s) of Mark Zuckerberg.

Academia: Banning laptops & other things from the classroom; don't autumn for simulated conferences!

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New from aidnography
Development intelligence
Likely developments together with corresponding needs of major humanitarian crises
For each crisis the ACAPS squad identified the main drivers of the electrical current province of affairs inward monastic say to amend empathise together with predict the hereafter trends. Food security, displacement, health, together with protection are expected to endure the most pressing humanitarian needs inward 2018.
Food safety is probable to deteriorate into 2018 inward northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia together with Yemen, together with in that location are risks of pockets of famine inward these countries.
Massive increment of IDPs recorded inward CAR, Congo, DRC, Iraq, Mali, together with Somalia throughout the twelvemonth is probable to hap rising into 2018.
Poor WASH together with wellness facilities are probable to farther exacerbate ongoing cholera crises inward Congo, DRC, Nigeria, together with Republic of Yemen into 2018.
Number of people inward demand of protection assistance is probable to increment inward 2018 inward DRC, Iraq, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, together with amid the Rohingya population.
ACAPS alongside their Humanitarian Overview for 2018. Important together with lamentable reading...

Whose truth is it anyway?
I convey lost count of the times I convey crossed out ‘transactional sex’ inward rail changes together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. Or ‘early marriage’, together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. Or ‘survival sex’, together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. All those carefully neutral, unexamined damage that brand invisible the reality of men’s abuse of women together with girls.
I convey lost count of the times I convey replaced ‘people’ alongside ‘men’; ‘people’ don’t rape girls inward school, men do. ‘People’ don’t convey ‘protection issues’; women together with girls are nether specific threat from the men around them. I convey spent whole days unpicking the assumptions that men rape together with abuse women together with girls because they are ‘unaware’, because they demand ‘sensitisation’, because they demand ‘education’. These assumptions, couched inward linguistic communication that appears to endure sensitive, thoughtful together with considered are thence dangerous; immediately, the impairment wrought on women’s lives is disappeared. They serve to assist us facial expression away from the reality that men make this intentionally together with deliberately, together with that it serves a run for them.
I convey spent thence much fourth dimension documenting the impairment to women’s bodies together with souls, for example notes, for courtroom evidence, for women’s credibility, fifty-fifty every bit it’s beingness downplayed together with smoothed out. I convey learned how to usage the linguistic communication of women’s wound without flinching together with without fear; it has been essential to endure able to verbalise the words of graphic, embodied truth, without looking away.
Missing inward the Mission alongside an anonymous reflection on sexual violence together with linguistic communication inward the assistance industry.

A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, every bit Young Writers Experiment With New Genres
In the final decade or so, literary festivals, majority prizes together with writing workshops convey sprung upwards around the country, together with a handful of influential novel publishing houses convey been formed, including Cassava Republic, Farafina, Parrésia together with Ouida Books, which was founded final twelvemonth past times the novelist Lola Shoneyin.
Ms. Shoneyin, the author of “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives,” has emerged every bit a prominent figure inward Nigeria’s publishing scene, somewhere betwixt an impresario together with a literary fairy godmother. In add-on to writing fiction together with running Ouida Books, she founded the Ake Festival, a five-day literary number inward Abeokuta that began inward 2013, together with curated the Kaduna Book together with Arts Festival, which kicked off this summertime inward northern Nigeria, a predominantly Muslim part that has suffered attacks past times the fundamentalist grouping Boko Haram.
The Kaduna festival, which took house final month, featured a writing workshop for women that was led past times the Sudanese author Leila Aboulela, together with a session inward Hausa, a local language, most the significance of Hausa literature inward a province where English linguistic communication is the official language.
Alexandra Alter for the New York Times on the emerging 'political economy' of fiction writing inward Nigeria.

Transformational Change Leadership
In a basis driven increasingly past times the shout for for ‘quick-wins’, brusk term indicators, audio bites together with dashboards, this trunk of piece of employment on transformational modify leadership is intended to assist funders, practitioners, together with students maintain our centre on the long game of supporting the social, human together with political working capital alphabetic quality needed to lead, advocate for together with sustain amend lives, communities together with nations, non exclusively for this generation precisely for the side past times side one.
A novel projection that involves a lot of dandy people!

the catamaran
The Catamaran is a tri-lingual portal publishing piece of employment past times journalists from all over Sri Lanka. Stories inward English, Sinhalese together with Tamil furnish background together with add together analysis to the most interesting stories inward the country. Original reporting is available for costless syndication to Sri Lankan together with international media, the aim beingness to give novice reporters exposure together with assist experienced local journalists accomplish a wider audience. Bringing journalists from dissimilar Sri Lankan communities together strengthens vital ties together with increases opportunities for collaboration, every bit good every bit contributing to capacity edifice inward the Sri Lankan media sector.
Another interesting projection from the Media iv Development field.

30 things to shout upwards about
To celebrate ACEVO’s 30th birthday, nosotros asked people inward together with around civil social club for their thought-provoking insights. We promise that these volition inspire ground most how to brand the biggest departure over the side past times side xxx years. We published a novel slice every solar daytime throughout Nov 2017.
Our digital lives


Chinese wheel portion graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance'
Bluegogo’s bankruptcy final calendar week sparked questions most the hereafter of dockless wheel sharing inward China, amid concerns in that location are likewise many bikes together with insufficient demand. In an opened upwards alphabetic quality apologising for his missteps, Bluegogo’s main executive said he had been “filled alongside arrogance”.
Benjamin Haas for The Guardian on 'peak rental bike' inward China.

Whose truth is it anyway?
I convey lost count of the times I convey crossed out ‘transactional sex’ inward rail changes together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. Or ‘early marriage’, together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. Or ‘survival sex’, together with replaced it alongside ‘sexual exploitation’. All those carefully neutral, unexamined damage that brand invisible the reality of men’s abuse of women together with girls.
I convey lost count of the times I convey replaced ‘people’ alongside ‘men’; ‘people’ don’t rape girls inward school, men do. ‘People’ don’t convey ‘protection issues’; women together with girls are nether specific threat from the men around them. I convey spent whole days unpicking the assumptions that men rape together with abuse women together with girls because they are ‘unaware’, because they demand ‘sensitisation’, because they demand ‘education’. These assumptions, couched inward linguistic communication that appears to endure sensitive, thoughtful together with considered are thence dangerous; immediately, the impairment wrought on women’s lives is disappeared. They serve to assist us facial expression away from the reality that men make this intentionally together with deliberately, together with that it serves a run for them.
I convey spent thence much fourth dimension documenting the impairment to women’s bodies together with souls, for example notes, for courtroom evidence, for women’s credibility, fifty-fifty every bit it’s beingness downplayed together with smoothed out. I convey learned how to usage the linguistic communication of women’s wound without flinching together with without fear; it has been essential to endure able to verbalise the words of graphic, embodied truth, without looking away.
Missing inward the Mission alongside an anonymous reflection on sexual violence together with linguistic communication inward the assistance industry.

Is banning Powerpoint from the classroom the best nosotros tin lav make for digital, inclusive education?
Fake conferences are non simulated news: beware predatory conferences
However, in that location is show that academic conferences component subdivision to facilitate commodity transactions, endure that knowledge, tools, skills, reputations, or connections, which reflects the neoliberal ethos inward the modern university (Nicolson 2017b). The predatory conference tin lav endure viewed inward this light, where academia is to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than focused on generating revenue. It is at best scurrilous, together with worst, criminal, for organisations to brand coin using such a confidence trick. Always banking concern check which conferences are organised together with advertised past times recognised scholarly organisations inward your ain discipline. If uncertain enquire a to a greater extent than experienced academic, a senior colleague or mentor.
Donald J. Nicolson & Edwin R. van Teijlingen for the BU Research Blog. If y'all are a regular reader of y'all are belike aware of the pitfalls of predatory publishing together with conferencing, precisely even thence this is a proficient primer on how to spot conferences best to avoid...

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