Posted Wed, 24/02/2010 - 08:44 by Owen
Here is Mosquito Map - a geospatially referenced clearinghouse for mosquito species collection records and distribution models.
MosquitoMap is useful for:
* informing decisions about where mosquito collection efforts should be directed
* identifying areas relevant to the study of mosquito biogeography, evolution and biodiversity
* allow predictions about the potential spread of exotic mosquito introductions
* allow predictions about the potential effects of global warming on mosquito distributions
* allow insig
Posted Fri, 29/01/2010 - 19:54 by Owen
John Githongo and Jamie Drummond write in the Globe and Mail on the need for a bottom-up poverty plan:
We suggest a new citizens compact to build on these results.
Posted Fri, 08/01/2010 - 17:15 by Owen
Lawrence Haddad's Ten Predictions for 2010 include this in last place:
10. People power in development will move into a new age
Posted Wed, 06/01/2010 - 10:50 by Owen
It seems very strange today, but it was not long ago that there were Consultative Group meetings in Paris about aid to developing countries to which the developing countries themselves were not invited.
In the near future, it will seem just as strange that donor countries could think of giving aid to developing countries without publishing detailed real time information about how much they are giving, to whom, and what for.
Posted Mon, 04/01/2010 - 12:14 by Owen
Posted Mon, 09/11/2009 - 14:36 by Owen
The GiveWell Blog nails i:... Consider the current state of the nonprofit sector.
* We have practically no information about charities’ effects on the people they serve.
* Donor misinformation is rampant. Failure to disclose basic facts sets off no one’s alarm bells even coming from the world’s biggest charities.
* Charities aggressively expand programs with great stories but questionable track records. (Three examples recently posted here: Village Phone, agriculture aid and microfinance).
Posted Mon, 12/10/2009 - 08:38 by Owen
Posted Sun, 06/09/2009 - 11:35 by Owen
Posted Tue, 01/09/2009 - 06:31 by Owen
Interesting paper by Vanessa Gottlieb on whether new media really challenges the existing power structures:
In democracies these technologies are appropriated and used as much by those in power as they are by those who feel disempowered. In non-democratic countries, the prohibitively high cost of these technologies means that society’s most disempowered often do not have access, and where they do new media as a tool for freedom of expression cannot yet compete with sheer physical force.
