I was just going through some older images from an excursion* to Afghanistan in 2002 when I stumbled upon this:
…which reminded me of this!
SCDL - same chaos, different location
* = found an older hard disk in the office which contains about 30 GB of images that will need to be sorted and partly uploaded to flickr.
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18:12
…Then you’re not paying enough attention.” - Ethan Zuckerman at Picnic ‘08
Ethan has just finished giving an excellent 20 minute talk on why people need to start paying attention to Africa. Not for Africa’s good alone, but for their own good as well.
One of the comments made was that the African reaspora will be the ones who rebuild Africa. Those are the Africans who have left and are now coming back with money, purpose and drive to see change happen. Binyavanga Wainaina and Helen Omwando represent that group, and are up on stage having a conversation with Ethan, discussing what is really going on.
“The default form of organization in Africa is a tribe.”
- Binyavanga Wainaina
“When you force people to use Western Union, you’re basically saying, ‘go rob this guy’.”
- Ethan explaining how having such a high profile, undistributed means of transferring money sets up the receiver of the funds as a target.
More tomorrow at the day-long event on Africa - I go on stage at 10:30 and will be talking about how mobiles are being used in Africa.
10:54 
10:06 
The Podcast
Things Discussed
1) How did Benin and Joshua get people to write for African Path (Amazing!)
2) What was the vision behind AfricanPath.com
3) Did the initial writers get paid?
4) How to get advertisers to committ to you and your site?
5) Pamoja Media and the Vertical Advertising Network Business Model
6) The Long Tail Theory of the Internet
7) How did they get people to advertise on African Path
Was it easy to get publishers for Pamoja Media? Was it easy to get advertisers?
9) What you must understand if you are to deal with African publishers i.e. the large African newspapers and magazines?
10) How difficult it was to integrate African publishers to the Pamoja Media advertising model
11) What has separated the African online ventures that have succeeded from those that haven’t?
12) We had yet another feel good session 
13) The unique strengths that Benin Mwangi Brown has brought to African Path that have helped it succeed
14) What unique strengths do African people have that they can bring to the West?
Websites and Ideas Mentioned
ii) Long Tail 2
2) Pamoja Media
3) African Path
4) Open X (Even I use it)
5) CPM
6) CPC
9:10 
8:29 The Karen Langata District Association (KLDA) runs a bottle bank at the Langata Link complex where residents of Karen and Langata can drop off empty glass bottles for recycling. Lately they have been receiving huge amounts of bottles and the glass company responsible for collecting these is not able to cope. They are looking for groups / organizations interested in collecting the bottles to contact them on tel. 891784 or 020-2304844.
(Hat Tip B - From Kenya Buzz)
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