Category Archives: Politics

OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

November 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Kiberia, Nairobi’s million-person slum, will be mapped in November through a project initiated by OpenStreetMap and Jump Start International. OpenStreetMap’s Humanitarian team will collaborate with ...
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South Africa’s Presidential Hotline is Finally Going Live

September 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Jacob Zuma’s campaign promised to make the South African government and presidency more accessible to the public. One of his many proposals was a presidential ...
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Who Will Keep their Servers Running to Protect Free Speech?

August 7, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Around the world, bloggers are reporting that yesterday, Russia may have launched an attack against Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Twitter to silence a pro-Georgia blogger ...
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Rwandese Envoy Given Conditional Release

May 11, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The battle between France and Rwanda in relation to the 1994 genocide has taken a new twist. Rose Kabuye, the Rwanda’s chief of State Protocol ...
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Micro-Messaging and Crisis Reporting

February 1, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
As part of my social start-up Appfrica Labs, my entrepreneurs here in Uganda and I have been thinking of ways of making the world’s web ...
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Black Iraqis Look to Obama’s Example

January 22, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
CNN has an interesting article on the black-Iraqi experience… Their faces and darker skins make them look different. They are routinely called “slave” by the majority, ...
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“…the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve.”

January 22, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Barrack Obama’s inspirational Inauguration speech will be remembered for a thousand different reasons but a few lines in particular caught RJ Eskow’s attention: “… we know ...
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George Ayittey’s Advice for Obama

December 18, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Great thoughts from George Ayittey on what’s wrong with Africa and how Obama can avoid repeating the mistakes that have fueled corruption and abuse by ...
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“Trade Carbon for Food”

December 1, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Could the key to Africa’s future have been there from day one? In sustainable agriculture, Busani Bufana thinks so… Forget the view of climate change as ...
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Sarah Palin Thinks Africa is a Country?

November 6, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A little morning gossip. Apparently former vice-presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin didn’t know that Africa is not a country, according to a Fox News correspondent… Perhaps ...
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