Entries from May 2009

29 May 2009

A Wave of fresh air for email

Yesterday Google presented what it seems to be a new killer application or, at least, “what email would look like if it were invented today”.
It’s called Google Wave as it brings a total restyling of the oldest, and most used of the Internet applications: the email.

I know many people think email [...]

18 May 2009

Indian election are going on under constant monitoring

As previously reported the Ushahidi engine is being used to monitor the Indian elections. Here is the situation as of today.

I find very interesting having such a mix of content available on the site!

14 May 2009

Training Session on “The World Café”

Yesterday afternoon we had a very useful and well organized training session on “what is and how to use” the The World Café facilitation method.
The agenda of the typical World Café session is:

Intro & explanations,
3 questions: presentation and debate,
Reporting by the “guests”,
Additional feedback by participants.

Some notes:

very useful method to get in touch, in short time, [...]

11 May 2009

2009 AMARC Pan African Conference: the results

The results of the election of 4th AMARC Pan African Conference held in Abidjan the 27-30th April 2009.

The new Board of Directors is composed by (from left to the right):

Benilde Nhalevilo: Women Representative from Eastern and Southern Africa (FORCOM) Mozambique
Kofy Larweh: Training officer, (GCRN) Ghana
Zara Yacoub: Institutional development, (DJA FM) Tchad
Franklin Huizies: Vice-president from Eastern [...]