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Vote now!

Since we’re all about less ranting and more action, please put your mouse where your mouth is Target is 300 votes by April 20, as of this morning 56 people had voted. Let’s help make this happen.

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Quick hits

Apologies for the blogging infrequency – combination of numerous deadlines and mindblock….

On to the link-a-rama.

– Parliament resumes tomorrow sans website, they can learn a thing or two from the Constituency Development Fund website which is rather impressive as far as Kenyan government websites go. – I keep saying it takes two to tango […]

Optimism in Africa

A few days ago I read this post by Ethan. He links to this piece in the New York Times that is seeking the source of Africa’s “relentless optimism.” The author asks: “Where does such relentless optimism in the face of unyielding misery come from? One glance at the statistical profile of the continent’s 900 […]

Githongo featured in Time Magazine

Pretty good write up. Hat tip Selam!

TED Global: Africa!

Been in the works for the last few months and finally announced at TED.

When I was on the PopTech Africa panel last year, one of the things I brought up was a desire to see a Poptech-like event in Africa. Unbeknownst to me at the time, a couple of TED staffers who were […]

TED Day 1 – Session 1

My attempt to live blog the sessions.

SESSION ONE – HISTORY’S ARROW

– First speaker is Erik Petersen who is a futurist and global analyst with 7 futures. He says the future will revolve around 7 key themes: 1) Population growth / demographics – be a big gap between high growth countries and low […]

Commentary on the Uganda elections

The upcoming elections in Uganda will have implications on the future of democracy in the region as a whole…perhaps the “African Big Man” syndrome is not about to vanish after all. For more context on the elections, Prof. Joe Oloka-Onyango has been kind enough to allow me to post his recent speech before the East […]

Quick hits

– Want to be part of a new way of thinking about development insteading of just ranting about Jeffrey Sachs et. al. Apply to be an Acumen Fellow (deadline Feb 17). Acumen has projects in Kenya and Tanzania among other places.

– Biopiracy in Africa. Click here for the full report. Via East African!

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