Author: Tobias Denskus

Hi all, The busy end-of-term weeks are approaching fast, so I sort of skipped one link review and focused on other content instead (see below).But it also means…

Hi all, I am very glad that all of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances in Kathmandu and beyond are physically well after the earth quake. However, with one…

‘Getting aid to a war zone in a swarm of drones’ popped up in my BBC app among many other articles over the weekend. It seemed like one…

Hi all, Greetings from Stockholm where I participated in an interesting consultation meeting about the World Development Report 2016 (I live-tweeted with the #spiderwdr2016 hashtag yesterday). But befor…

While I checked the #isoj (International Symposium on Online Journalism) and #ijf15 (International Journalism Festival) hashtags from time to time over the weekend for some interesting, inspiring conf…

Hi all, Every link review has a different balance and this week has equally packed Development, Digital Lives & Academia parts!Sending TOMS shoes to Africa is still a…

In a comment a while ago I compared traditional, large development organizations to the music industry, suggesting that they risk of becoming the equivalent of CDs in the…

Hi all, Welcome back from the Easter break that most of you enjoyed in one way or another! There are quite a lot of Development news items this…

Hi all, The last week was just crazy and we essentially skipped one iteration of your favorite link review. But I enjoyed the debates around my reflections on…

Recently, three separate incidents have caught my attention: A new report from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on The role of volunteering in sustainable development was launched,…

Hi all, New week, fresh linkage! ‘Yoga is helping to end poverty in Africa‘-you, I & Jeff Sachs knew it all along! But there are better stories from…

Book reviews are time consuming and are usually read and shared less than other blog content-so why bother with them? Book reviews have been one pillar of my…

Hi all, The latest link review once again reminded me what a fantastic network of friends, colleagues and digital acquaintances I have that do and write about really…

Hi all, Another much-needed link review as interesting reads kept piling up in my Inbox…Development news looks at impact of policy briefs, the cost of post-2015 data collection,…

This is a re-post from our ComDev portal. I think it makes a nice addition to the Student advice section of the blog. As the autumn term was…

Hi all, As I was complaining on facebook about all-male panels I have to admit that my virtual panel of development commentators is also highly imbalanced this week…

I largely disagree with Paul Currion’s post The invisible lesson of Invisible Children at IRIN News-even though I like their new approach to add more critical commentary to…