Today, for the Blog Action Day ‘09, the topic is the connection between Communication for Development, the discipline managed by the Team I’m part of at FAO, and Climate Change, the topic all of us are dealing with these days and in the near future.
Writing this post is not an easy job due to the [...]
It’s a long time I have the impression that my mind is changing the way it “works”.
In other words, I feel like the tools I use to do my job, and Internet in particular, are modifying the way my mind process information and manage knowledge. So, reading, writing and, consequently, working approaches have been reshaped. [...]
I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]
In Darlene E. Clover’s description participatory photography:
“places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities.”
Learn more on participatory photography with the PhotoVoice Manual.
p.s.: I was able to know participatory photography and learn about it thanks [...]
kiwanja is releasing a new version of its famous software FrontLineSMS, the leading SMS management platform. Now the software allows users to manage forms to collect and share data:
You can read more on afromusing, an interesting blog on innovation, technology and beyond or on Ken’s blog.
Internazionale is a very interesting magazine and offers tons of inputs for better understanding what’s going on around the world. It helps putting pieces together.
The number last week collected the following three articles on blogging:
Why I blog by Andrew Sullivan,
Who killed the blogosphere? by Nicholas Carr, and
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady [...]
The economic crisis is becoming common for many of us. This image represents a policeman ensuring residents have moved out of their home in Cleveland, US, following eviction. Made by Anthony Suau, it won the World Press Photo 2008.
Ok, the Share Fair is well finished and I keep on putting pieces together after that nice, funny, interesting, free, relaxing, tiring, visionary week.
Soon, I’m going to blog some internal reflections.
The Forum on Mobile Telephony just ended. I think this has been a very interesting discussion, not only for the postings themselves, but mainly for the large number and value of people involved, experiences described and points of view reflected during two weeks.
To give an idea the complexity and the value of our last discussion [...]
As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment
Launched in the late [...]
CHANGE seems to be the KEY word all over the world these days.
At FAO, two main events just took place last week. The Organization is undertaking a deep and serious process of internal restructuring. After the IEE (Independent External Evaluation) report, which suggested many and different changes in the strategy, the approach and the structure, [...]
Some days ago a group of communicators working for different services of FAO had a very interesting visit to the radio and video studio of the organization.
Ten of us, part of the “bluebar” communicators list, spent the morning with the responsible for the infrastructure debating on: how to use the facility, the recent and past [...]
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