I have been spending some time with two reports recently that have me thinking a bit about the outcomes we in the ICT4D and digital education fields are looking for …
Edtech & Neoliberalism in ICT4D: Blowback from Bridge Academies in Uganda and Liberia
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. It seems like we had just written about Bridge International the other day and the dangers of locking whole educational systems into for-profit industries and …
Beni American University: A Chance to Participate in Building (Literally) Higher Education in Nigeria
The Need for Education in Nigeria It has been awhile since I posted, but since I am more or less settled in Seoul it seemed like a good time to …
Artistic representation and mobility: African rock art and 26,000 year old ivory sculptures
African Rock Art as Nodes of Sanctuary I am heading off today for a whirlwind of travel through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to visit family and friends, so perhaps …
Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts
This is a post a bit outside the norm for this blog, so apologies. I have just been processing the devastating initial reports about the burning of many of the …
How Africa Tweets and Implications for Academic Research
I was recently reading the report entitled How Africa Tweets from the Portland Communications, which can be downloaded here. It is a very ambitious effort with both quantitative and qualitative …
Geocommons: African Mobile Money and Higher Education visualized
This post is really about demonstrating Geocommons, a nifty tool for visualizing and mapping large datasets. In this instance, I was merely playing around with the datasets that are already …