Archive for December, 2010

Link: Week in Review 12-31-10 Kailavya.jpg Aditya Natraj Trends, topics, and tidbits this week Our photo of the week:Our photo from the field this week is an update from 2008 Echoing Green… More»

As we welcome 2011, we wish the growing MobileActive.org community a happy, just, free, and mobile New Year! We thank you deeply for all of your support and enthusiasm in 2010 and look forward to working with you in the coming year. You are amazing, and together we will do great things - mobile,... More»

Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo has said the country could face greater violence if he were to resign. I got déjà vu when I read that lede on the BBC. This is exactly what Charles Taylor said in 2003 when the international community was putting enormous pressure on him to resign. (There’s a quote... More»

Link: Assorted links 1. A hypothesis about why the east side of cities is usually poorer. 2. International trade and New Year’s resolutions. 3. Nature’s science predictions for 2011. 4. Nature’s… More»

Link: Less than Two Weeks Left: World Anxiously Awaits Sudan Referendum By Girma Negash, AIUSA country specialist This posting is part of the Sudan Referendum Watch series Recent reports have indicated that South Sudan will move forward as… More»

Link: What I’ve been reading I’m not in Africa this winter break. But I feel like I am, based on the amount of reading I’ve been doing. Here’s what I’ve been reading. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong… More»

I'm not in Africa this winter break. But I feel like I am, based on the amount of reading I’ve been doing. Here’s what I’ve been reading. (...) Read the original article... More»

Link: Colombia Named One Of The Most Dangerous Countries For Journalists A recent report published by Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign calls Latin America the most dangerous region in the world for journalists. In 2010, there were a reported 105 murders of… More»

Link: Monopsony markets in everything Two Mississippi sisters serving double life sentences for their roles in an $11 armed robbery will be released, but only on the condition that the younger sibling donate her kidney to her sister,… More»

Link: Weekly Mulch: Was Cancun Climate Conference a Success? by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The United Nations-led Climate Conference at Cancun was not a diplomatic disaster, but for climate activists and grassroots groups, it wasn’t a success… More»

Link: Mayan Families Part 2 Newsletter for December 2010 http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Mayan-Families-Newsletter-Part-2-for-December-2010.html?soid=1103559743325&aid=n3PsnXTr7lo More»

Link: Haiti Coming to terms with Sean Penn (well, sort of…) Filed under: Activism, Aid, links, opinion Tagged: haiti, links, Sean Penn More»

Link: December 2010 Newsletter – Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution ICAR Newsletter: A Publication of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason UniversityVol. 4, Issue 7, December 2010Editor: Tom Richardson, More»

Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) won the most 'soft dollars' in SoftCity's Secret Santa Software Giveaway, resulting in $1,000 in free software and discounts to improve technology infrastructure, provide education or even enhance network protection. According to the SoftCity website, soft dollars are earned every time users participate in the SoftCity online community by... More»

Link: HBR’s 2011 Agenda Featuring: Dan Ariely, A.G. Lafley, Lynda Gratton, Peter Cappelli, Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Charlene Li, Tim Brown, Bob Sutton, Herminia Ibarra, Ed Schein, Jean-Francois Manzoni, and Daniel Pink…. More»

Link: Do Rigidities in Employment Protection Stifle Entry into Export Markets? Editor’s Note: Murat Seker recently presented the findings of the paper discussed in the following blog post at a session of the FPD Academy. Please see the FPD Academy page on the All About… More»

According to former commanders for Charles Taylor, Liberians fighters marginalized after the civil war there ended in 2003 are flocking to both sides of the crisis. Recruitment has split along ethnic lines, with members of Krahn tribe joining Gbagbo's forces and Gio and Mano fighters aligning with Ouattara. That’s Johnny Dwyer writing on the... More»

Link: Newspapers & Social Media The Poynter Institute reports that the New York Times has phased out its social media editor position. The article explores what this means for the Times and how it reflects the newspaper’s… More»

Link: Kyrgyzstan: Still An Island of Democracy? By Adil Nurmakov According to the recent report of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Kyrgyzstan seems to remain an “island of democracy” in Central Asia, murzaki informs. More»

Link: War Crime Hypocrisy Related to Serbia’s EU association process nearly every progress report of European Commission highlights Serbia’s cooperation with Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)…. More»