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Hi all, I am on the road during the next couple of days-but no reason for you to spend a weekend without interesting and hopefully inspiring reading suggestions! Development news : Senegal is no country for young men; aid convoys-between easy targets and signs of hope; the political economy of ‘forgotten’ conflicts; Nigeria’s loses oil revenues-like billions of it; mining comes to Malawi; female tech activist struggle in the DRC; what’s the ‘world’s youngest dictator’ up to these days in Sierra Leone? Failed migration summit; who is reading UNDP publications?  Our digital lives: Blogging under a pseudonym; H&M sells capitalistic ‘empowerment’; being elderly and homeless in the US New publications featuring Bill Easterly, feminist activism and networks of control.  Academia: The limitations of higher education conference travel. Enjoy! New from aidnography Visions of Development (book review) In many ways Peter Sutoris’ "Visions of Development: Films Division of I...

In many ways Peter Sutoris’ Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75 is one of the most interesting historical case studies on ‘communication for development’ I have come across so far; At the same time his book, based on the curation and analysis of over 250 documentaries from the state-supported Films Division (FD) is so much more: It provides a historical overview over the evolution of the post-colonial development discourse in India and is also an important study on the history of documentary film making from its origins to the peak of pre-digital production in the 1970s. And as if th ese are not already significant achievements, Sutoris also created a companion website where m ost of the documentaries he introduces in the book are now available for the first time in digital format, thus establishing a great resource for teaching, learning and further research. The hegemonic beast of bureaucracy The absence of alternativ...

Hi all, Welcome to another link review-this time at bit more balanced between the 3 parts-so do scroll down to the end ;)! Development news: Lacking p unishment for attacking aid workers ; EU links humanitarian funding to migration discourse; even the FT discovers the #allmalepanel; crowdfunding innovations for development; the aid industry is constantly changing; did Angelina Jolie really plan to head the UN one day? Musical talent from Sudan; literary talent from Zimbabwe-and finally: How to be a horrible boss? Our digital lives: Can a sewing robot disrupt garment the industry? How to be writer; assessing fake Internet traffic Academia: Twitter as a teaching tool; career angst; pre-Brexit student chaos in the UK; predatory publisher buys legitimate medical journals. Enjoy! New from aidnography Apply to our Communication for Development online part-time flagship MA program! As the spring application window for ComDev’s flagship 1-year MA opens from 15 September – 17 October we ...

Dear all, These are exciting times at our Communication for Development program! The autumn semester with almost 150 students across all our courses is well underway and we just concluded our Transit Europe symposium with more than 60 colleagues, students, alumni and friends of ComDev. As the spring application window for ComDev’s flagship 1-year MA opens from 15 September – 17 October we are once again looking forward to receiving your application. You will find all the details on the 1-year MA page . Our MA program is a 50% full-time course taught in our online blended learning ‘glocal classroom’ that we have pioneered, improved and enhanced for more than 15 years! You can also read what graduates from the course have said about ComDev and we just uploaded three more profiles in connection with ComDev experiences in the United Nations system . Please note that all applications have to be made through Sweden’s central university admissions website and that we only evaluate the l...

Hi all, This is officially the 200th link review , but last week's post alre ady marked the official an nivers ary of cur ating development, ICT4D and higher education content since 2011. So we are pretty much back to no rmal wit h this week's review. Development news : George Clooney & celebrity engagement in South Sudan; a cultural shift towards junk food will be the next public health time-bomb; global fashion value chains are huge polluters; ‘job creation’ and ‘free trade’ won’t help developing countries; behind the humanitarian frontlines with MSF; just adding doctors won’t solve Indian’s public health challenges; Oxfam now has a responsible data policy; public service broadcasting in fragile states; Congo’s female dandies; new books on the Ebola response. Our digital lives: Hackathons for refugees suck; a radical manifesto of writing (back). Academia : The anthropologist arrives ‘in the field’; academic meets design practice. Enjoy! New from aidnography What I l...

My first ever link review in November 2011 featured 3 international development links on study advice for MA programs, sanitation & hygiene and facilitating social change. When my 200th link review will go online in September 2016, I have had the chance to collect, select, review and share thousands of news items, blog posts and other digital resources. I first shared some more general reflections on the curation process on the occasion of link review no. 100 in November 2013 ( 100 weekly link reviews later: Why I still like curating #globaldev content) ; the post highlighted how curation has helped me with my research, teaching and digital literacy. As I went through most of my previous link reviews I reflected on some of the key features that emerged from the diversity of material I have come across in an ever-changing digital publishing environment. We never had so many great news sources-while traditional media brands often remain stuck in reporting stereotypes When I look at ...