Apply to our MA in Communication for Development & Advances in C4D course!
Hi all, As most of you know, I have a fantastic ‘day job’ at Malmö University in Southern Sweden. Right now, applications are open for both our flagship…
Author: Tobias Denskus
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Hi all, Today is/was a first as I prepared the link review just before co-teaching a class in our New Media & ICT4D course so I can use…
Trust.org’s Tom Esslemont and the pipe dream of overhead-free humanitarian aid
When Tom Esslemont and the team at Trust.org send out a survey on how charities involved in the Nepal earthquake relief have spent their money, he must have…
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Hi all, While our ComDev program is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary this week, there is also a lot of good food-for-reading available that deserves some of…
The Frontman-Bono (in the name of power) (book review)
It is fair to say that Bono is one of the leading global celebrities involved in the aid industry and probably one of the founding fathers of modern,…
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Hi all, The first week of term was quite overwhelming-so the latest link review is a bit delayed. But this also means that plenty of interesting readings will…
New research on vocationalization in international development studies education
The latest published outcome of my fruitful research and writing partnership with Daniel Esser is a new article in Learning and Teaching where we discuss Countering the risks…
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Hi all, New week, new links as the momentum for the start of the new term builds up. Development news features Oxfam latest trends on closing civil society…
Does the ADB have a problem with women?
When I tweeted this picture from the ADB’s 7th International Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday, I did not anticipate that it quickly became one of my most re-tweeted…
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Hi all,Another week is coming to its end and you are looking for Friday afternoon and weekend reading recommendations!Development news features inherent contradictions of the SDGs in a…
On Facebook’s Internet.org false promises of a “poor man’s internet”
What started as a quick discussion on Facebook has turned into a great guest post by Hani Morsi.Hani is currently writing up his PhD at IDS Sussex on…
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Hi all, After a short break we are getting ready for the new term and the blog activity will continue pretty much as normal in August. Development news…
Barbara Bush, the rise of global health & white privilege
As difficult as it is to engage with Nick Kristof’s latest column A Millennial Named Bush on George Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush without getting a little bit sick…
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Hi all, This week’s regular link review (after last week’s ‘anniversary post’) focuses on the core themes of the blog, development, humanitarian and philanthropical topics. We start with a…
What the German government thinks a “Strategic Partnership for a ‘Digital Africa’” should look like
It was coincidence that the #HackingTeam story broke while I was drafting this post.In one way, these two posts are very much unrelated, but in other ways there…
Links & Contents I Liked 150 (!!)
Hi all, Right in the middle of some kind of summer break, aidnography celebrates another link-related benchmark-welcome to link review #150!What I wrote in late 2013 to acknowledge…
Why the #HackingTeam hack should be a wake-up call for the #globaldev community
You may have seen the #HackingTeam hack story emerging in your networks and thought it to be some strange, fringe tech-hack whatever issue…think again! As first insights from…
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Hi all, Who do anthropologists think they are?! was my question last week. This week we have new links on the humanitarian economy, a growing number of children…
Who do anthropologists think they are?!
You may have followed the ensuing debates around Alice Goffman’s ethnography and the broader moral, ethical and potential legal implications of her written account based on six years…
Status Update (book review)
Alice Marwick’s book Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age is a very important and timely book that deserves widespread attention in development and…
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Hi all, This blog has been silent for far too long! But the ‘end of the term’ period has turned into a rather prolonged period of wrapping up,…
The new prophets of capital (book review)
I enjoyed reading Nicole Aschoff’s The new Prophets of Capital on a recent journey between two of Sweden’s largest cities. Her book, which is actually a very accessible,…
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Hi all, As our academic term is approaching its grande finale with 15 MA thesis examinations and a great seminar my link review is a bit shorter and…
Is banning Powerpoint from the classroom the best we can do for digital, inclusive education?
Copenhagen Business School Professor Bent Meier Sörensen shared his interesting piece Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring on The Co…