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Hi all, Only one more week before a short holiday break! Development news: Holiday giving the right way; UNICEF in pictures Then & Now; Wonder Woman retires from UN job; Drowning-a massive cause of global child death; J.K. Rowling dislikes orphanages; a id enters-rents hike in Nigeria; Andrea Cornwall on gender, development and academia; do they know there’s evidence? SenseMaker & development projects; mapping the logistics of the U.S. military-industrial complex. Our digital lives: A political TeenVogue ; the 3D printing revolution that wasn’t. Publications: Caring for humanitarian carers; engaged excellence; community monitoring to combat corruption. Academia: Associations & their paywalled journals; better policies for more diverse panels. Enjoy! New from aidnography What’s next for #allmalepanel? I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. (...) Re

I have written about all male panels before and I am regularly following the #allmalepanel hashtag for updates on that topic. I also n oticed that t hree new academic articles (paywalled) were published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (scro ll down to ‘ Conversations ’ ) . Recently, I noticed three developments that add more nuances to the debate on gender and panel diversity-and more broadly on how ‘we’ meet and conference. Why so many men/people on a single panel? Even though this requires a bit more research, it really seems that 7 has become some kind of magic number. Look forward to this panel on #G20 #globalhealth , despite the #allmalepanel fail. pic.twitter.com/O98mL7CMXa — Katri Bertram (@KatriBertram) December 7, 2016 Maybe people only share panels with a particularly large number of men, but in general I have a gut feeling that panels seem to grow in different surroundings such as academia, policy and other public events. So even if we assum

Hi all, One moment you are reading an interesting story-the next moment it’s already time for the Friday link review! Development news: UK reviews development consultant spending; Compassion International wins Rusty Radiator (for video, not their organization's name...); Afghanistan’s first female rapper; ‘Made in Rwanda’ & the complexities of Chinese engagement in the garment industry; front line health work successes in Uganda; why Ford president shouldn’t have joined PepsiCo board; political correctness, feminism and bad taste-Cards Against Humanity edition; white fragility. Our digital lives: #blacklivesmatter and digital movements; representing the new Africa; sociologists take celebrity seriously. Publications: The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making; Gendering War & Peace Reporting; The cost of coherence; Trends in UN Peacekeeping fatalities. Academia: Ethnographies of the neoliberal university; making academic conferences accessible and in

One of the things I realized this year is that I am actually reading more interesting books than I am able to review individually for the blog. To try out a new format and share some interesting reads with you before the holidays and before 2016 will be wrapped up, I am sharing two new and also very different book reviews with you. As always, my approach is reviewing through the lens of ‘communication for development’ with an eye on media, communication and different angles of ‘development’ or phenomena that I think are relevant for ‘our’ aid industry as well. Wesley Lowery’s book is based on his experiences as a Washington Post correspondent who has been covering police brutality in the USA and community responses beyond #blacklivesmatter. Nicole Dennis-Benn’s novel takes us to Jamaica, following the lives of three women and their struggles with social change and society’s expectations. “They Can’t Kill Us All”  Wesley Lowery’s “They Can’t Kill Us All”-Ferguson, Baltimore, and a

Hi all, We are enjoying a busy semester and there are also a few things going on behind the blogging scene, but on Fridays you should enjoy your link review and reading suggestions for the weekend! Development news: The global tech innovation hub hype; the gendered inequality of America’s low paid jobs; Australia’s ‘old aid’ approaches no longer work; on the West’s changing humanitarian foundations; cash transfers work; data science challenges; data is political and part of the surveillance economy; must-read: Essay on Afghanistan, mental health & so much more; don’t write to orphans; Card against humanity digs a giant hole. Our digital lives: ‘I don’t belong in tech’; when start-ups become companies; Alphabet’s Jigsaw wants to change the world; why we need to rethink the centrality of work in human existence. Publications: Sexual violence in the aid industry; Power, Poverty & Inequality revisited; Gilded Giving; conflict reporting in the smartphone era Academia: Cana