Posted on April 3, 2008 by 40brown
This morning I read about a web application called Jott.com, which uses voice recognition to let users send email and text by speaking. The idea is that you call a phone number, select the destination of your message, then speak. The voice recognition program then turns your speech into text and will then send it [...]
Filed under: International Development, technology | Tagged: Africa, cell phones, connectivity, development, internet, mobile phone, technology, voice to text | No Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by 40brown
I am very happy to report that I’ll be attending the Intercultural Management Institute’s conference on March 13 and 14. I am looking forward to many interesting panels and workshops.I’m also excited to try live blogging for the first time. I’ll be using www.coveritlive.com ’s application. I hope you join in!
To follow along, click here.
Filed under: Communications, networks, social media | Tagged: Africa, American University, blogging, blogs, collective intelligence, culture, Foreign policy, IMI, International Development, leadership, Learning, live blogging, management, ncc, NGO, nonprofits | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 22, 2008 by 40brown
Of all the questions posed to presidential candidates, only 5% are about human rights.
That’s according to a report recently released by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. But of that 5%, Darfur was an issue that was repeatedly addressed. In fact 23% of the human rights questions posed to Democrats were about Darfur, ( [...]
Filed under: Human Rights, Uncategorized | Tagged: Africa, Darfur, election, Gayle Smith, Politics, president, presidential campaign, Refugees, Sudan | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 13, 2007 by 40brown
I picked up this book because it is listed in the reading material for the MIT Open Course Ware’s class, Gender, Power and International Development. I am slowly working through this course and would love to hear from anyone else who has gone through it, either on campus or online.
From the inside flap:
“After a childless [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Africa, African Literatur, Books, Books Around the World, Buchi Emecheta, Colonialism, Gender Issues, Lagos, Nigeria | No Comments »