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Imagery and stories used to frame issues of humanitarian development for advocacy and funding are often sensational and culturally disrespectful, representing those living in poverty as helpless victims in need, rather than as empowered and capable individuals. Fueled by intense Twitter and blog discussions about this topic (which is often referred to as "Poverty Porn,") [...]
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This is a summary of the May 14th Technology Salon in New York city on "Does social media exacerbate poverty porn". Linda Raftree@meowtree Some RTs from this morning's #techsalon on #povertyporn w @tmsruge @lksriv @viewfromthecave coming up - courtesy of @nidhi_c Tue, May 14 2013 13:31:53 ReplyRetweetFavorite Linda Raftree@meowtree MT @nidhi_c: #povertyporn is never about [...]
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This is a cross-post from Tessie San Martin, CEO of Plan International USA. Tessie's original post is published on the Plan International USA blog. For more on the status of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in the US and information on which donors sit where on the Transparency Index, visit Publish What You Fund. Over 40 governments, [...]
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At Catholic Relief Services' annual ICT4D meeting in March 2013, I worked with Jill Hannon from Rockefeller Foundation's Evaluation Office to organize 3 sessions on the use of ICT for Monitoring and Evaluation (ICTME). The sessions covered the benefits (known and perceived) of using ICTs for M&E, the challenges and barriers organizations face when doing [...]
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CISCO is looking for stories about how people and organizations have used network services (mobile video and gaming, video conferencing, SMS, and social networking) to achieve different social or personal goals. The idea is to find stories not only about how technology developers are inventing things, but also about how different tools are enabling a range [...]
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The March NYC Technology Salon offered an opportunity to discuss how mobile technology can transform workforce development and to hear how mobile is improving the reach and impact of existing initiatives working with girls and young women. Attendees also raised some of the acute, practical challenges and the deeper underlying issues that need to be overcome in [...]
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At the South Asia Evaluators' Conclave last week, Jill Hannon from Rockefeller Foundation's Evaluation Office and I organized a session on ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) as part of our efforts to learn what different organizations are doing in this area and better understand some of the challenges. We'll do a couple of similar [...]
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As part of their efforts to reduce violence against children, Plan Benin is rallying motorcycle-taxi drivers to use SMS to report violence against children that they witness in the streets. Florence Cisse, Plan West Africa's regional communications officer, says: The Zemidjan or "Zem" swarm the streets of Cotonou like bees. They are everywhere; silent observers to [...]
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The February 5 Technology Salon in New York City asked "What are the ethics in participatory digital mapping?" Judging by the packed Salon and long waiting list, many of us are struggling with these questions in our work. Some of the key ethical points raised at the Salon related to the benefits of open data [...]
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I spent the weekend working on a paper about "Children on the Move." I'm not even close to done with it yet, but the topic is fascinating. Some reports say that 1/3 of migrants are between the ages of 12 and 25, including millions of children under the age of 18. The number of children [...]
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