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9:15
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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What is money? I pose this question in light of the current global financial crisis which is increasing inflation all around the world. I mean, many people think that money has this infinite value, but in this era of inflation, should this crisis become a lesson about why one should always convert this “paper” called [...]
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20:48
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I was having dinner with a good friend the other night and she mentioned that her 401K was taking a hit. This is the second time she’s mentioned it. I’m sure others have observed the same thing with their 401k’s.
I was talking to yet another friend (who I consider to be a semi-expert on finance) [...]
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13:00
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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There’s an interesting article in Fast Company magazine on China’s foray into Africa. It’s making people nervous:
“This commercial invasion is without question the most important development in the sub-Sahara since the end of the Cold War — an epic, almost primal propulsion that is redrawing the global economic map. One former U.S. assistant secretary [...]
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19:18
From: Afromusing
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When I attended the GV summit I counted myself quite lucky to meet so many bloggers from around the world, including contributors to Global voices online. The gift of a macbook sleeve from Bolivian project ‘Voces Bolivianas’ was one of the many highlights of the summit. It was such a moving gesture that some of us were fighting back tears of appreciation. You see, the Global voices logo was hand-stitched onto the sleeve, and Eduardo and his team lugged this big huge bag all the way from Bolivia to give each one of us a choice between the 15″ sleeve and the smaller 13″ sleeve.
The sleeve is lovely, it is made from traditional Aguayo textile, and I have to admit I treasure mine a whole lot.
You can buy one for yourself, and in the process, help support a very worthwhile project that is reaching out to underrepresented groups in Bolivia, getting them to share their opinions online through the use of blogs and other participatory media.
The colors are just lovely…get one!
PS: Only available in the US…
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2:53
From: Afromusing
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I am at the Global Voices summit, regarding citizen media, democracy and technology.
I will be covering the following sessions using the live blogging tool CoveritLive on this blog and also on the GV summit blog. Please bookmark the event homepage [summit08.globalvoicesonline.org]
- Twitter feed is [twitter.com]
- The timezone for the live sessions is GMT+1
June 27, 2008
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech”
MODERATOR: Mary Joyce.
SPEAKERS: Ory Okolloh (Kenyan Blogger), Wael Abbas (MisrDigital, Egypt), Mehdi Mohseni (jomhour.org, Iran), Amine (digiactive.org, Morocco), Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, Hong Kong), Au Wai Pang (Singapore)
Citizen media allow for more active and open participation in political processes, but threats of censorship and oppression discourage citizens from expressing their own opinions. This session will present case studies from Kenya, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
15:30 -16:30 Session 4: “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge”
MODERATOR: Ethan Zuckeman.
SPEAKERS: Roger Dingledine (Tor), Nart Villeneuve (Citizen Lab), Isaac Mao (Digital Nomads project, China), Robert Guerra (Privaterra, Cuba), Danny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
The tools to circumvent web filtering and other methods of online censorship exist, but they don’t always reach the people who need them as easily as they could. How can we facilitate better coordination between the developers of these tools and the anti-censorship activists that need them? And how do we facilitate the flow of feedback from the activists back to the developers so the latter can design more appropriate tools?
June 28th 2008
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: “The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies”
MODERATOR: Solana Larsen.
SPEAKERS: Daudi Were (Kenya), Onnik Krikorian (Armenia), Hamid Tehrani (Iran), Luis Carlos Díaz (Venezuela)
The rise of blogging, social networking and micro-blogging services like Facebook and Twitter, video- and photo-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, and the spread of mobile technology have given ordinary citizens the means, at least potentially, to participate more fully in the democratic process. This session looks at the impact these tools have had on recent elections in Kenya, Venezuela, Armenia and Iran and poses the question: is citizen media having an actual impact on democracies in transition?
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15:15
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I’ve been thinking about this whole outsourcing issue again (why am I so obsessed with this issue of outsourcing?). Anyway, I was thinking about this issue because for the past two weeks, I have been trying to work on this website and I got stuck. There were some things I needed to do [...]
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18:47
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I was reading an interesting story today in the NYT about Japanese fears that it is no longer churning out enough engineers and this will become a problem if it hopes to remain an advanced nation. Apparently, young Japanese who’ve grown up in a wealthy country, no longer feel the need to go into engineering, [...]
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8:12
From: Kenya Imagine
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The consensus around the world is that there is a food crisis upon us, and that the world simply cannot produce enough food to feed the growing population. The New York Times contributes as it continues to substitute hyperbole for information in its reporting on rising food prices: Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing. Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Read more from Chris Blattman here.
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11:25
From: Kenya Imagine
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Kenya has been so dunked in political drama, transport frustration and security chaos in the last few months that it feels really strange when I wake up to no news. Still, there is always something going on. Bus fares have gone up. I have taken to eating left-over ugali in the morning with bad tasting tea made from tea dust that I buy from a roving vendor because it’s a lot cheaper than what I would get from a regular store. I cannot miss breakfast because the label on my box of medicines says "2 after meals twice a day'. Lunch does not exist in my lifestyle. Dinner is on my mother, if it wasn't for her I would be in a spot of trouble. Read more from Juliet Mararu here.
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11:24
From: Kenya Imagine
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My mind has of late been engrossed in such matters as the Safaricom IPO, the Kenyan cabinet fiasco, and the elitism of Senator Obama. The world, meanwhile, is on the brink of a food disaster, such a major one that the very definition of hunger will soon be changed forever. Images of malnourished children will no longer be the face of starvation. We will instead see food labelled with extraordinarily exorbitant prices, shortages that force even the wealthy into long queues for food and total anarchy as countries in different parts of the world spiral out of control as the hungry demand that they be sated. Read more from Brian Mogaka here.
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7:39
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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There’s an interesting article in the Standard about call centres coming to Kenya. I guess this cable line has everyone excited about outsourcing opportunities. If you are based in America, you’ve pretty much dealt with call centres in India and I know of very few people who are impressed by them (heavy accents, unpleasant personalities, rude, etc, [...]
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8:01
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I’ve been thinking about doing this for awhile and now that the political stuff seems to be dying down, I’d like to invite people to contribute articles on this forum. So, if you think you have something interesting to say, particularly about business or entrepreneurship in Kenya {or anywhere else} and you don’t want to [...]
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16:59
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I just finished reading this great article in Fortune magazine about how Dubai is expanding it’s global reach beyond it’s borders and it’s doing it in poor, third world countries. What caught my attention were some of the countries it has selected: Djibouti and Rwanda. Huh?? (Full article here: Camels, Gorilla’s and skyscrappers)
Basically, the government [...]
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11:09
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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You can’t ignore a country with 500 million potential consumers, can you? World leaders are flocking there trying to get in on all that potential business (Maharaja’s land of gold).
Africans always like to inform westerners about the “other” side of Africa (”no, trust me….it’s not all poor”, really, I’m telling you, please believe me, etc, etc…you [...]
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23:37
From: Afromusing
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As the leaders of the world continue with negotiations in Bali to chart the successor to the Kyoto protocol, there are some major events this week to make a note of. The first - international demonstrations planned by the Global climate campaign around the world. In Kenya, the contacts are listed as
David Waiganjo dnwaiganjo[at]yahoo.com
(Inter-Varsity Environment Network and African Youth Initiative on Climate)
Charity Weru glady333ke[at]yahoo.com
(Kenya Young Greens)
Grace Akumu cnaf[at]cnaf.or.ke
(Executive Director, Climate Network Africa)
For December 8th there is a plan for a climate parade in Nairobi.
If you will be attending or have more information, please feel free to comment. I would love to see photos and if you are a Kenyan blogger attending the parade please give me a heads up whenever you write about it. Thank you!
From KenyanPoet, The Climate change Orchestra will be playing as part of the WAPI event at the British Council. More details here.
For the Africa online crew there is something for you, you can join the Virtual Rally on the same day Dec 8th by writing about climate change. You do not have to alter the tone of your ‘blog voice’, a quip, a video, a rant, your thoughts… You can also sign a petition here.
At global voices online, we have a special page with links to blogs covering Bali and Climate Change politics, so do check it out. I have been going through the feeds to keep it fresh just for you, so do not miss out on the river of news coming out of Bali. If you are an African blogger writing about the environment, this is the week to do it, Global voices links will show up on the Reuters page. How is that for getting your voice heard!
(please leave me a note if you write something, email is environment [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org)
Quotables from Prof. Wangari Maathai
* If you don’t raise your voice, then your environmentalism means nothing; it’s mere tokenism or opportunism.
* The environment is very important in the aspects of peace because when we destroy our resources, they become scarce and we fight over that.
* We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. In making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own.
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20:11
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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This is a documentary about an American computer programmer who travels to India to find out why so many “American” jobs are being outsourced to that location.
The guy is obviously bitter about being laid off and I got no sense from watching this video that he has come to terms with the realities of the [...]
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15:22
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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There’s a hilarious ad that was posted on Craigslist about a woman looking for a rich husband in New York City. Here is the description from the NYT:
“Last month on Craigslist.com, someone who described herself as a “spectacularly beautiful” 25-year-old placed a personal ad seeking a husband who made at least $500,000 a year, [...]
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16:55
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I was talking to someone the other day about work in general and how safe (or not) most people’s jobs are and she said that in this global economy, your stability at work all comes down to one question:
Are you an income generator?
if the answer to that question is no, then your job is not [...]
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11:21
From: Kenya Imagine
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Global warming has taken centre stage in discussions on the future of mankind. Climate change and its impact on humans and the environment stand out already as the most pressing problems of our time. For the already impoverished masses of the developing world, this catastrophe presents also an opportunity. We can ,if prepared, turn a global crisis into an opportunity for change in Kenya and in the whole East African region. More from Ole Mepukori here.
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0:07
From: Kenya Imagine
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Peter Ndiangui addresses the need for Kenya to invest in alternative sources of fuel while preserving the environment. In Kenya for example, Mumias Sugar has already awoken to this reality, and is
positioning itself to benefit from the ramifications of Kyoto or the son of
Kyoto. The onset of carbon trading schemes means that there is a direct economic
value attached to green products, in addition of course to the moral one.
Read more here.
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8:03
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank has been in the news recently under a cloud of allegations that he tried to hook-up his girlfriend with some perks. Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on Wolfowitz’s history of corruption, except to say that I run into an article in Harper’s magazine written by [...]
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10:35
From: Kenyanentrepreneur.com
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I was just reading an article in the New York Times about Germany’s emergence once again, as a global engineering powerhouse (German Exports). The Germans have always been known for their solid engineering, but the economy took a downturn when East and West unified. The transition was difficult both economically and culturally, but [...]
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