rebekahheacock + africa 130
South Sudan considers ICC membership
february 2012 by rebekahheacock
Wondering how this will affect http://bit.ly/A46hbX (via @reutersafrica)
africa
southsudan
ICC
humanrights
february 2012 by rebekahheacock
The long march speeds up
january 2012 by rebekahheacock
Africa in 2012: "Expect turbulence."
africa
politics
january 2012 by rebekahheacock
This Is Not Good: From Abidjan
april 2011 by rebekahheacock
"I hope that this insanity ends soon. It is absolute anarchy here right now."
ivorycoast
africa
april 2011 by rebekahheacock
wronging rights: The Nuge on Africa
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
WTF, Ted Nugent? And WTF, Washington Times?
africa
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
Online Africa
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
Nice collection of Africa ICT stats (via @ethanz)
africa
technology
ict
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
Cameroon bans mobile Twitter service | FP Passport
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
"Before today’s ban, very few Cameroonians were even aware that Twitter was available in Cameroon via SMS, and the majority of those who were did not even grasp its potential as a tool for political activism."
twitter
cameroon
africa
politics
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
African Revolution, Holding on Line Two | PolicyMic
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
Interesting take by an old friend of mine.
africa
politics
digitalactivism
march 2011 by rebekahheacock
In search of an African revolution (via @georgiap and @AJEnglish)
february 2011 by rebekahheacock
International media are following protests across the Arab world but ignoring those in Africa.
africa
middleeast
MENA
february 2011 by rebekahheacock
How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge, by Binyavanga Wainaina
august 2010 by rebekahheacock
"If I was smart, I would have waited a few years and made an iPhone app: a little satirical story about how to write about Africa every day, interactive and adaptable, for ninety-nine cents."
africa
writing
august 2010 by rebekahheacock
6 Lessons ICT4D Practitioners Can Learn From PlayPumps Failure | ICTWorks
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
I used to think PlayPumps were awesome. I was wrong. But here's how we can do better.
ICT4D
technology
africa
development
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
Uganda bombings: Why the world should care
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
CNN interviews Chatham House analyst on what it means if al-Shabab is in fact responsible for the bombings in Kampala.
kampala
uganda
somalia
africa
july 2010 by rebekahheacock
Reuters: East African sex workers to track arrests, abuse via SMS
april 2010 by rebekahheacock
The web site will be called Tujulinde, which means protecting or defending ourselves in Swahili. Can't wait to see it.
women
africa
uganda
kenya
april 2010 by rebekahheacock
Is Africa underpopulated? | Katine | guardian.co.uk (via @georgiap)
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
"Uganda is one of a handful of African countries where the population, now 33 million, is predicted at the least to treble in the next 30 years. Yet like Mo Ibrahim, president Yoweri Museveni calls his country's population growth 'a great resource'."
uganda
development
africa
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
40 Amazing Examples of African Digital Artworks - Noupe
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
These are really beautiful.
art
design
africa
illustration
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
Afromusing » Transmediale: The future of Tech in Africa
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
"The new meme of Africa is unfolding in front of us. Technologically and culturally the future of Africa is absolutely refreshing."
africa
development
ict4d
technology
innovation
march 2010 by rebekahheacock
Official Google Africa Blog: New Maps domains in 30 African Countries
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
"Google Maps users can now find local businesses. This could be a burger place in Lagos, a garage in Kampala, a hairdresser in Accra or an airport shuttle in Dakar."
maps
google
africa
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
Di bombs. Di bombs. Di bombs are built in London. But the bombing is for Congo. (via @cblatts)
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
This has been one of my favorite songs since a friend gave it to me while I was living in Kampala.
music
afrobeat
africa
february 2010 by rebekahheacock
“The UN of today is not the UN I entered” – Chris Blattman
january 2010 by rebekahheacock
This explains why I hated the UN peacekeeping course I took last semester.
UN
africa
january 2010 by rebekahheacock
African Mobile Market, Q2 2009 Numbers — WhiteAfrican
november 2009 by rebekahheacock
Africa has 415,010,625 mobile phone subscribers, with an average growth rate across the continent of 5.4% between Q1 and Q2 2009.
africa
mobilephones
november 2009 by rebekahheacock
Online Africa » Using Google News to estimate online ICT attention
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Attention can be gauged in many ways: investment dollars, number of organizations, or even by bandwidth. Curious to see how well-represented individual African nations are in the ICT progress game, I, however, turned to Google News for a quick analysis."
africa
ICT4D
technology
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
On the Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership (blog post from @kenyanpundit)
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
"If you were to ask me, I’d just scrap the prize altogether."
africa
governance
democracy
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
The Associated Press: No winner for $5 million African leadership prize
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
the prize goes to a democratically elected former head of state who's stepped down in the past three years, but there were no good candidates this year. ouch.
africa
governance
democracy
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
Global Voices Online » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
amazing story of/fantastic interview with a GV translator from Mali
globalvoices
inspiration
mali
africa
ICT4D
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
Global Voices Advocacy » Liberia government sites are off, and nobody cares
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Almost all government sites in Liberia fell for days. But when garbage covers the streets of the capital Monrovia, who cares of the Internet?"
liberia
africa
internet
september 2009 by rebekahheacock
The Malagasy dwarf Hippo: Literacy rate and Internet usage in Africa
august 2009 by rebekahheacock
correlation is almost perfect
africa
internet
august 2009 by rebekahheacock
Civil War in Uganda, the Stuff of Vertigo’s Unknown Soldier Comic - NYTimes.com
august 2009 by rebekahheacock
wondering how accurate this is.
comics
uganda
africa
northernuganda
LRA
august 2009 by rebekahheacock
How Google and governments should manage Africa's Internet boom | FP Passport
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
SAT-3, Seacom and SMS raise questions for Google and governments in Africa
technology
telecoms
internet
africa
google
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
REMarkify! | High-tech from Low-tech in Africa, as seen by Erik
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
how Erik Hersman, aka WhiteAfrican, got his start
africa
blogs
bloggers
interview
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
‘No news is good news’ - not true in Zimbabwe» This is Zimbabwe
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"One thing is for sure, to assume that 'no news is good news' in Zimbabwe is catastrophically short-sighted."
zimbabwe
politics
africa
news
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
» No Connection? No problem! Practical Advice for Freelancing From Cybercafés | Appfrica
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
REALLY should have used the "back up everything locally" tip when I was designing for NUPI/USAID
africa
technology
blogging
blogren
gtd
internet
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
…My heart’s in Accra » Activist media and selective amplifiers
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
"We face at least three filters in the voices we hear - access, language and bias."
iran
politics
activism
socialmedia
africa
twitter
china
media
digitalactivism
mobilephones
july 2009 by rebekahheacock
Wanjiku and Technology: Importance of Twitter in Africa
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
thoughts on twitter, africa, and refurbished computers
twitter
africa
technology
ICT4D
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Official Google Africa Blog: New African countries live on Google Maps
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Google has now launched detailed maps for several countries in Africa - Maps that are searchable and contain rich information of geographical features, roads, landmarks and other attributes."
google
googlemaps
africa
maps
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Copyright Exceptions Needed To Ensure Balance In Africa, Panellists Say
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
"The study suggests that a pro-access copyright law is needed in all countries with appropriate and clear exceptions and limitations in support of learning materials access."
africa
copyright
law
june 2009 by rebekahheacock
Why don’t many people in Africa understand and benefit of Open-Source « Nzeyi Web Logs
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
"There is a man who said that Africa was sleep when The West was revolutionizing the machinery and mechanization industry and that Africa should not be sleep again with this new revolution in ICT. This is really a great thinking but there still much a lot to change for achieving this kind of dream."
africa
rwanda
ICT4D
technology
opensource
may 2009 by rebekahheacock
BBC NEWS | Africa | Man bites snake in epic struggle
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
""I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he said. "I had to bite it."
news
kenya
africa
bbc
snakes
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
K'Naan: Why We Don't Condemn Our Pirates
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
Can anyone ever really be for piracy? Outside of sea bandits, and young girls fantasizing of Johnny Depp, would anyone with an honest regard for good human conduct really say that they are in support of Sea Robbery? Well, in Somalia, the answer is: it's complicated.
music
africa
somalia
pirates
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
Chris Blattman's Blog: What is an authentic African?
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
Sadly, everyone else seems to sound exactly like a London investment banker, the books they read at Harvard or LSE, or (in Easterly's words) aid agency officials repeating their boring platitudes. And sometimes they just rehash Easterly. More people should rehash Easterly (and Friedman, and Tilly...), but I will always value the fresh voices most--African, Turkish, American, Peruvian or otherwise.
africa
development
aid
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
GayUganda: How to spot a Gay Ugandan
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
"With all the hysteria and hullabaloo ongoing in Uganda about homosexuality, one of the newspapers has gone ahead and published a 'How To' manual. In the interest of public morality of course. Uganda is a homophobic country. But, as with all prejudice and ignorance, people just dont know who they are 'fighting'."
uganda
LGBT
africa
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
Jillian C. York » On Homosexuality in Morocco
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
"People back home aren’t wont to listen to such complaints, thinking them the burdens of a Muslim society. But I know better: that isn’t Islam. That’s a society repressed to the point of explosion."
LGBT
africa
morocco
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
Global Voices Online » Arrest Warrant For Omar al-Bashir: “Just Talk And Talk…”
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
Sudanese bloggers aren't terribly worried about the ICC indictment of President al-Bashir
sudan
globalvoices
africa
ICC
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
BLDGBLOG: Mathscape
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Part outdoor classroom, part spatially immersive lesson in arithmetic, the project gives students a place to study in at least two senses of the phrase. On the one hand, it's simply a forum for learning; on the other, it is literally a place to study: the space itself, if I've understood this correctly, serves as a model for play-based education."
uganda
architecture
design
africa
march 2009 by rebekahheacock
Blood and Milk by Alanna Shaikh: Nothing, something, and more
february 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Bad development work is based on the idea that poor people have nothing. Something is better than nothing, right? .... But poor people don’t have nothing. They have families, friends – social ties. They have responsibilities. They have possessions, however meager. They have lives, no matter what those lives look like to Westerners."
blogs
bloggers
africa
development
february 2009 by rebekahheacock
Monitor Online | News | ‘Obama’s grandpa was born in Uganda’
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
“To date, traditional religious practices of the Luo are judiac and jewish in origin” the author claims, adding that Luo names like Barak “spelt “Barack” means “blessed” in Hebrew.
media
uganda
africa
obama
judaism
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
…My heart’s in Accra » Web meme two, why I blog about Africa
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
"Most Americans are idiots about Africa.... Writing forces me to learn, and sharing what I learn helps me learn more, as people correct me, contradict me and explain things to me."
blogs
writing
bloggers
africa
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
“He Ain’t Heavy” - The Story Behind Johannesburg | The Lightyears
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
My friend Ashley manages this band, and this song is awesome, as is the story behind it.
music
africa
southafrica
january 2009 by rebekahheacock
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