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CV Advice..?
I have just re-purposed and posted some of the jobsearch advice articles that were on my old jobsite (Fuse Jobs). I’ve been coaching a friend who recently lost his job and it reminded me that I always...
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From BRICS to BRAICS..? ALBA as a ‘Rising Power’ in Development.
Last week, I attended a seminar at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex – “How are the BRICS changing development“? Some interesting points were raised (though typically of...
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Can You Hear Me Now? Strengthening Citizen Voices through Technology
Reblogged from adele waugaman: I have the pleasure and honor of joining the board of Technology Salon, which many in the ICT4D community know as a regular in-person convening of professionals...
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A little bit of RAD…
Just a quick post today – I recently was flicking through some of my Uni essays and decided there’s a few that might be worth re-purposing. One in particular takes a brief and high-level look at RAD...
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On two -ism’s… Journalism shedding light on Capitalism
Terrible blog title aside… An article in this week’s New Statesman reminded me why journalism – when it’s good – can be so valuable. In this instance by shedding light on an aspect of capitalism that...
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Reflecting on Agile approaches to Development/ICT4D
Read full ‘blarticle’ here Recently I have been reading up on Agile project management methodologies (Extreme Programming, Scrum and a little on Rapid Application Development, EVO and Rational Unified...
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Brighton-based ICT4Ders?
So I have just started working with a great bunch of Agile ICT4Ders in Brighton (www.aptivate.org) and, Brighton being the kind of trendy, hippy, geeky place it is… It seems there must be a ton more...
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Three events, three perspectives on community participation, one week…
This week I attended three different events – variations on the common theme of community engagement and participation: Plan UK (London), Citizen Voices UK: A Global Conference on Citizen Engagement...
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ICT4D Brighton – first (highly successful) local ICT4D Meetup
So last Thursday (April 18th) was the first meetup of the fledgling ICT4D Brighton group. http://www.meetup.com/Brighton-ICT4D-Group I counted 21 people at the peak which, from an RSVP of 32 and a...
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ICT4D Brighton Part 2 – June 11th
ICT4D Brighton Part 2 – June 11th It’s that time again… The 2nd installment of the Brighton splinter group of ICT4D Meetup/Tweetup/Pissup/Mashup (take your pick). I think you should all come… Whoever...
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Participatory Technology – Meeting Up on the South Coast (#tech4socialchange)
The Scene… Friday September 27th 2013, a dark room above The Quadrant in Brighton, having lost my guest speaker and my MC, and experiencing the obligatory technical problems with the projector,...
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Is it time for ICTD conferences to have a bit of a shake-up..?
It was with some reservations that I booked my travel to Singapore to attend ICTD2015. It’s a long way to go for a conference, and I had heard very mixed things from friends and colleagues who have...
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Looking for hands-on experience with grass-roots participatory technology…...
So my colleagues at Aptivate have kindly approved my proposal to take a sabbatical. So from October 2015 I will taking a break for the UK to explore a core interest of mine – the intersection of...
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Too many blogs spoil… something…
It just occured to me that I blog (rarely) on the Aptivate site… and I blog (very rarely) on this site… And I even blog (very very rarely) on ICT Works… Maybe I should find a way to bring this all...
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Labour leadership and a Free Press in the UK
I just posted a response to an article about The Guardian coming out in support of Yvette Cooper in the UK’s Labour leadership race. It has been bothering me for a while but I only just realised why....
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World Tour… the story so far…
So some of you will be aware that I have taken a year off work at Aptivate to get some hands-on experience at the hard face of ICT4D… Or to travel the world seeing exotic places… depending on your...
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Could Agile + Adaptive Programming = A new dawn for ICT4D?
I am in Manila at the moment, supporting World Vision Philippines with advice around selecting and managing a local agile software development firm. It’s been interesting work, and I was particularly...
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Musing on Monitoring & Evaluation for ICT Works
I recently published a piece at ICT Works with some of my thoughts on the challenges facing the development sector when it comes to M&E/MEL. It is provocatively titled “Why M&E is LAME (or...
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(oops… not) heading to the eBorneo Knowledge Fair
*UPDATE* : Combination of various accumulated travel frustrations, cancelled planes, long van journeys, lack of sleep and a few other things – mean I didn’t make it to eBKF in the end and went to...
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Join me in Nairobi at ‘Tech for Tax Justice’ (Feb 1-3)?
So yes, I am now in Nairobi… I clearly haven’t got the hang of blogging regularly, so intermittent snippets will have to do I’m afraid. I am here spending some time helping out a really interesting...
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