Prezi for workshop at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Michael Gallagher This is a presentation that accompanied the workshop I just did in Tanzania at State University of Zanzibar University of Dar es Salaam International School of Tanganyika All three went…
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Information literacy workshops in Dar and Zanzibar, Tanzania ahead of eLearning Africa 2011
In a few days, I will be heading off to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania via Amsterdam (and Kiliminjaro, which just sounds poetic). This trip is in loose conjunction…
Ushahidi and Crowdmapping: A project from #mobimooc
This is a follow up to the previous post about potentially using Ushahidi and Frontline SMS (and maybe some open source CMS, Drupal, WordPress, etc.) for bridging communities of interest…
SMS, higher education, data distribution, and developing nations
This is in keeping with the #MobiMOOC conversations circulating at impressive rates as per the discussions for the course, but I was thinking a bit about a particular thread of…
Tanzania, Melbourne, Edinburgh, London,botany, Seoul, music: a cabinet of curiosities of a post
I originally had the following songs at the end of the post and realized that was just plain rude. Here are the songs I was listening to as I was…
Archival footage from (South) Africa: 1920s
I suppose it is historically consistent in that the video portrays (South) Africa as a place where one is more likely to see wildlife than people. Interesting video that pays…
The Sound of Work in Ghana: Authority and Context
This is a very short, non-ethnographic, post about the authority of sound and how ethnographers often gave favor to oral interactions at the sake of text. Essentially, this runs counter…