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Hi all,

We welcomed closed to 200 novel students this calendar week inward our ComDev program too both the U.S. too large parts of Southern Asia sense disastrous flooding situations. I started a special link review that links Harvey to broader evolution issues. But at that spot is hence much to a greater extent than going on this calendar week & lots of nutrient for thought:

Development news: USAID’s largest wellness projection is inward trouble; elections inward Angola; how to tackle sexual violence inward emergencies; to a greater extent than UN(DP) reforms; digital alter inward rural India; NYT’s West Africa Bureau Chief uses a mobile phone; some other Gettleman review; missing woman mortal leaders inward the United Nations system; the fallen idol of Myanmar; how to overcome inequality amongst unusual aid; don’t order pitiful people to move harder too alive smarter; Harvey & corporate hubris.

Our digital lives: The neoliberal panopticon of a Romanaian telephone telephone center; humitas; Google suppresses critical retrieve tank voices; the whiteness too privilege of startup media; a volume bought its agency inward the bestseller lists.

Publications: Does tweeting mag articles brand a difference? Civic tech inward the global South; a history of participatory research; NGOs as journalists.

Academia: Learning to larn inward digital environments.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Reading #Harvey through a #globaldev lens
There are new, relevant articles that receive got started to link Harvey to broader questions of international evolution too humanitarian assist too that are interesting nutrient for thought inward 'our' industry.
Development word
Largest USAID wellness projection inward trouble
The render chain projection is implemented yesteryear a consortium led yesteryear Chemonics International, which has grown to move USAID’s largest implementing partner — inward large component subdivision because of the Washington, D.C.-based contractor’s surprise takeover of U.S. global wellness render chain programs 2 years ago. The USAID contractor leased a 50,000 foursquare pes component subdivision infinite inward Crystal City, Virginia, to assist adapt the novel project.
When USAID issued a asking for proposals to implement the GHSC-PSM projection inward Jan 2014, many assumed the coalition of organizations already implementing USAID’s render chain projects would keep their concur on them.
USAID’s statement inward Apr 2015 that Chemonics had submitted the winning bid — effectively unseating a partnership of organizations led yesteryear John Snow, Inc. — sparked a contentious flurry of respect protests, delaying the project’s transition yesteryear several months. The Partnership for Supply Chain Management filed protests amongst both the Government Accountability Office too amongst the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals, both of which were denied.
Michael Igoe for DevEx amongst the totally surprising finding that USAID's effective too efficient individual sector implementing partners produce non deliver bully results...cudos for DevEx to release a storey that may interfere amongst the concern side of their operations.

Election unlikely to herald the alter Angolans receive got been clamouring for
On 23 August Angolans went to the polls to elect a novel parliament, too for the kickoff fourth dimension inward the lives of a bully bulk of the population, a novel president. José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled the province for 38 years, did non run this fourth dimension as his party’s move yesteryear candidate.
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Despite this, it’s probable that the elections volition pick out to a greater extent than of the same, too only tiresome too gradual improvements — if at all — of the lives of most Angolans. Lourenço is really much a production of the system. He has the backing of the political party too the armed forces, which is an improvement over dos Santos’ previous intended successor, (former) vice-president, Manuel Vicente.
Jon Schubert for The Conversation on Angola's recent historical elections.

Dispelling 5 myths most sexual violence inward emergencies
No ane questions when humanitarians gear upward food, tents or medical supplies inward advance of a typhoon, expecting these supplies volition salve lives. The same logic must apply to programmes that preclude too address gender-based violence. It is unethical to hold off for proof of wide-scale abuse; activity must pick out house at the earliest moments of a crisis response.
UNFPA on how to improve gear upward too response to sexual violence against women inward humanitarian situations.

UNDP’S novel Strategic Plan is a jeopardy to rethink too refocus
One of the things nosotros attempt to produce inward the novel Strategic Plan is to utter direct most the importance too value of our network, non but for UNDP but for the whole United Nations Development System too for our partners. Part of this is our noun expertise on diverse issues covered inward the Sustainable Development Goals: our hap poverty, governance, resilience too climate, gender, etc. But the 2d part, but as importantly, is the tremendous value nosotros provide as a termination of our physical network too presence: our province offices, our infrastructure, our local noesis too our presence on the ground.
Joseph D'Cruz on the perpetual quest of the United Nations scheme to change, reform, rest relevant too existence discipline to political back upward (or lack thereof)...

The serenity digital revolution inward Chandrapur
The dashboard showed that amidst those inward the 18-70 historic menses grouping eligible for the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (a subsidized insurance scheme), only ninety out of a full of 631 people were covered. The hamlet also drew a blank on wellness insurance—none of the 174 eligible people (classified as below the poverty line) were covered nether the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.
Almost a twelvemonth later, the results are strikingly visible.
A sub-divisional officeholder inward Mul is using the dashboard to observe villages where she should conduct Aadhaar camps. She hovers over the ruby dots inward the map to zip inward on areas amongst the lowest use.
The block evolution officeholder inward Mul wants to runway how his block is faring on the Open Defecation Free parameter. The snapshot shows what per centum of households don’t receive got toilets; he clicks ane time again to observe out which villages inward detail are lagging behind.
The electricity subdivision tin at ane time observe out precisely which households are nonetheless non connected to the grid. And existence the only such database on LPG job inward the country, the ministry building of fossil oil at ane time knows which households to target for providing cooking gas connections.
That’s non all. The district collector, Ashutosh Salil, volition at ane time last able to rely on the information dashboard to cross-check inward existent fourth dimension what officials claim needs to last done, too also to appraise villagers’ evolution priorities during his acre visits. “Earlier if I had to budget Rs100 for 10 sub-districts, I would distribute them equally,” he says. “That can’t last right resources allotment if a block has been covered earlier too does non bespeak to a greater extent than resources.”
Aarti Gupta for Live Mint amongst an interesting illustration study from Republic of Republic of India too the potential of 'big data'; as always, at that spot is a a really thine business betwixt information informing policy-making too province surveillance...

The Technology Our West Africa Bureau Chief Relies On
And, yes, people are huge users of social media similar Facebook too to some extent Instagram. Nigerians inward detail are really active on Twitter. Besides concern people, many others produce non receive got a laptop. In urban areas, a lot of people receive got smartphones, peculiarly immature people, too if they don’t receive got one, they desperately desire one.
Dionne Searcey for the New York Times. It seems that the NYT is a fleck unlucky amongst their recent coverage of 'Africa' (see Gettleman volume review below); her storey reads a fleck similar 'look Western/Northern/American people, your boyfriend humans inward Africa also job digital tools too receive got digital lives' too those 2002-style photos of her on a *mobile phone* inward a hamlet too taxi? Please...

Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded yesteryear the Tech Giant
Google’s willingness to spread cash around the retrieve tanks too advocacy groups focused on meshing too telecommunication policy has effectively muted, if non silenced, criticism of the fellowship over the yesteryear several years, said Marc Rotenberg, the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. His group, which does non pick out corporate funding, has played a leading job inward calling out Google too other tech companies for alleged privacy violations. But Mr. Rotenberg said it is move increasingly hard to observe partners inward that endeavour as to a greater extent than groups pick out Google funding.
Kenneth P. Vogel for the New York Times on the fellowship that ane time had 'Don't last evil' as their corporate tagline...

On Mic.com too Minority Life inward Startup Media
Regardless of how woke whatever cis straight rich white homo is, the fact is that he volition receive got severe blind spots if he lives inward America because his experiences are hence fundamentally different from minorities. Maybe it’s fourth dimension to consider that a management squad heavily dominated yesteryear white men would brand situations similar the ones Jeffries describes nearly inevitable, too that the solution would ultimately last non only to hire to a greater extent than minorities, but encourage a civilization where they tin speak freely, too then truly too consistently psyche to them.
Meredith Talusan amongst a bully long-read on startup media, biases, privileges too the limitations of having white men inward charge...

Updated: Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?
How does a volume amongst such a depression Amazon ranking that’s ‘temporarily out of stock’ all of a precipitous move the most read volume inward YA? How does something that has adjacent to no organic blogging coverage or fifty-fifty Twitter buzz produce this? If the only Twitter gossip for your volume is variations of ‘Seriously, has anyone heard of this book?’ you’ve got problems.
If you lot receive got truly heard of or fifty-fifty read this book, delight brand it comport upon because nosotros are baffled.
Kayleigh Donaldson for Pajiba. This storey is less most a detail volume too to a greater extent than most the fact that rankings, metrics, information tin too volition last manipulated too e'er require critical analysis rather than existence taken as 'objective' measurements.

Publications
The unbearable emptiness of tweeting—About mag articles
The ideal that tweeting most scholarly articles represents curating too informing most state-of-the-art appears non to last realized inward practice. We encounter much presumably human tweeting almost exclusively mechanical too devoid of master copy thought, no evidence of conversation, tweets generated yesteryear monomania, duplicate tweeting from many accounts nether centralized professional person management too tweets generated yesteryear bots. Some accounts exemplify the ideal, but they correspond less than 10% of tweets. Therefore, whatever conclusions drawn from twitter information is swamped yesteryear the mechanical nature of the volume of tweeting behavior. In calorie-free of these results, nosotros utter over the compatibility of Twitter amongst the research corporation as good as some of the fiscal incentives behind these patterns.
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Kimberley Isett, Julia Melkers, Diana Hicks amongst a novel opened upward access article for PLOS One.

Civic Tech inward the Global South : Assessing Technology for the Public Good
This volume is comprised of ane study too iii acre evaluations of civic tech initiatives inward developing countries. The study reviews evidence on the job of twenty-three information too communication engineering scientific discipline (ICT) platforms designed to amplify citizen voices to improve service delivery. Focusing on empirical studies of initiatives inward the global south, the authors highlight both citizen uptake (yelp) too the score to which populace service providers response to expressions of citizen vocalization (teeth). The kickoff evaluation looks at U-report inward Uganda, a mobile platform that runs weekly large-scale polls amongst immature Ugandans on a number of issues, ranging from security to access to didactics to inflation to early on marriage. The next evaluation takes a closer appear at MajiVoice, an initiatory that allows Kenyan citizens to report, through multiple channels, complaints amongst regard to H2O services. The 3rd evaluation examines the illustration of Rio Grande produce Sul’s participatory budgeting - the world’s largest participatory budgeting scheme - which allows citizens to participate either online or offline inward defining the state’s yearly spending priorities.
New opened upward access volume yesteryear Tiago Peixoto too Micah Sifry for the World Bank.

Participatory research: Where receive got nosotros been, where are nosotros going? – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dialogue
Of greenback is the fact that the early on roots of participatory research were constitute inward the global South, specifically inward Africa, Asia too Latin America. Of farther involvement is the fact that for the kickoff 20 to 25 years, participatory research was a discourse located almost exclusively exterior formal academic circles but rather inward social movement structures too civil guild circles.
Open access article yesteryear Budd Hall too Rajesh Tandon inward Research for All.

ARTICLE: NGO’s incidentally fill upward inward for journalists
Indeed, none of the interviewees saw themselves as journalists, although ane referred to a colleague as one. Despite the journalistic features of some of their work, the NGO members nonetheless encounter themselves strictly as advocates. Thus, inward the illustration of Cyclone Pam, the members of 350 Pacific became “unintentional journalists”, producing a cast of “hybrid journalism”, Spyksma concludes.
Journalism Research News features a novel research article from Journalism Studies yesteryear Hannah Spyksma.

Academia
Learning to larn could last built into online courses
By showing that learning is a science inside large-scale digitally mediated programmes, the research volition assist to educate both the lineament of programmes too the capacity of learners to brand the most of them.
In a guild categorised yesteryear fast-moving technology, concern disruption too multiple career changes, knowing how best to larn volition last a critical skill.
Sandra Milligan for University World News amongst interesting insights into digital learning beyond slowly measurements too assignments.

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