I’m just back from the first night of the Stanford leg of the United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF). From the opening documentary about the atrocities, lies, deceit and mystery surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, where respect for individual human life was almost non-existent, to the incredible work of a team of dedicated doctors and … Continue reading Overwhelming. Perspective.
Month: October 2007
The unpicking of FrontlineSMS
Going by the title of this Blog post you might be expecting a little online session for prospective FrontlineSMS users. You know the kind – what it is, what it does, where it’s been used and so on. Well, however useful that might be, this posting is more for my benefit. It’s time for a … Continue reading The unpicking of FrontlineSMS
Cat out of the bag?
After a hectic but interesting and rewarding summer, October sees me back at Stanford University continuing work on my MacArthur Foundation-funded next generation FrontlineSMS system. The past few months have also seen interest in the work of kiwanja hit new heights. Requests for interviews came from web-based, radio-based and print-based media (see the News page … Continue reading Cat out of the bag?
In search of The Searchers
In my search for a holiday read last week, I picked up a copy of The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly, a book about “why the West’s efforts to aid the Rest have done so much ill and so little good”. Reading this feels like a throw-back to my days at Sussex University where, … Continue reading In search of The Searchers