April 2011
“Google News for Opera Mini in all 29 languages and 70 editions of Google News....”
– Official Google Africa Blog: New Google News for Opera Mini available in a dozen African countries
World View Heads to Africa: Rwandan President Paul... →
negritaschronicles:
YouTube World View has traveled to North America, Europe and the Middle East to offer you the chance to interview the most powerful leaders in the world. Today, we’re introducing our first World View interview with an African leader, Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Starting now, you can submit questions to President Kagame on any topic, like Rwanda’s economy, technology...
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A World Without Facebook →
visualoop:
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Africa: A continent's discontent →
caraobrien:
I recommend reading this for a breakdown of the political disputes and protests in sub-Saharan Africa. There’s a lot of information here that isn’t being reported by most media outlets.
Before-you-volunteer-to-build-that-school →
After spending more than half the year in school, students should be able to engage in intellectual discussions about development projects and not base decisions solely on sentiments. Before you commit to any school building project, here as some questions you should ask yourself. Foremost question: What is this really about? Am I looking for a fun and perhaps responsible/honourable way to spend...
More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the... →
What we’ve found is that the story of hunger, and of poverty more broadly, is far more complex than any one statistic or grand theory; it is a world where those without enough to eat may save up to buy a TV instead, where more money doesn’t necessarily translate into more food, and where making rice cheaper can sometimes even lead people to buy less rice.
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“Wanneer je op een uitkering aangewezen bent, krijg je in de meeste gevallen te...”
– Ronnie Tielenburg. Om er misselijk van te worden!: Reintegratie en werk
The Chinese in Africa: Trying to pull together →
ZHU LIANGXIU gulps down Kenyan lager in a bar in Nairobi and recites a Chinese aphorism: “One cannot step into the same river twice.” Mr Zhu, a shoemaker from Foshan, near Hong Kong, is on his second trip to Africa. Though he says he has come to love the place, you can hear disappointment in his voice
Africa’s Facebook explosion – user numbers double... →
Facebook has become the single biggest non-mail client product in Africa. Over the last seven months user numbers have doubled in many countries and the smaller countries where it was barely visible, now have significant numbers of users. It is the number one or number two site in every African country
Ondernemers peinzen niet over nieuw personeel →
Al is er werk genoeg, ondernemers nemen nog steeds geen personeel aan. Slechts 16% van de ondervraagden kan de werkdruk niet aan en gaat daarom op zoek naar werknemers.
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'Vergrijzing leidt tot grotere... →
Arbeiders zijn in 2030 net zo schaars als olie, denkt hoogleraar Jules Theeuwes. Dit is het gevolg van een krimpende beroepsbevolking en een stijgende vraag naar hoogopgeleiden.
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Kenya: Eldoret Street Children Increase to Over... →
Some street children last week chased away a group of foreigners who had planned to take photographs and video recordings near the main market.”They come and take our photographs, but we never benefit in any way. We have been turned into tourist attractions which people use to mint money for themselves,” said one of the street children only identified as George.
Flexibilisering roept om innovatieve vraag en... →
“Zelfstandig ondernemers zijn gedreven door passie en specialisatie en ondervinden steeds vaker een gebrekkige aansluiting tussen hun kennis en vaardigheden en de eisen van de opdracht. Zij hebben het gevoel dat hun kennis en kunde onderbenut wordt en dat er teveel schakels tussen zitten. Bedrijven vragen zich op hun beurt af: Hoe kom ik nog aan hoog kwalitatief personeel?”
“Per dag komen er twee schoolklassen arbeidsongeschikte jongeren (Wajong) bij.”
– Arbeidstekort dreigt in Rivierenland
Wordt het niet eens hoog tijd dat we een einde maken iedereen in de wajong te gooien omdat ie niet stil kan of wil zitten???
Arbeidsongeschikte jongeren… hoe ziek is de sociale zekerheid eigenlijk inmiddels geworden….
Hoe kun je arbeidsongeschikt...
Over 100 years of the Kenya Gazette goes live on... →
We’re excited to announce that from today, historical copies of the Kenya Gazette (dating back to 1906) will be searchable and viewable, for free, via Google Books.
The Gazette is a weekly official government publication, containing important notices such as government appointments, as well as individual notices that are required to be made public by law. The records contain information of...
“Disruptive technologies are subversive. They have cult-like followings. Their...”
– bryce nails it
A Story About Disruption
(via fred-wilson)
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lovemeplease: Misconceptions about the continent... →
pandasprint:
I don’t understand why people always have to put the stereotypical picture of an African person up. How ignorant can you be? Try this on the next person you see. Ask them what they think Africa is like, and 9 times out of 10 they will say something negative. Not everything in Africa is bad. It’s…
Sta me bij →
Kan en moet iedereen werken? ‘Sta me bij’ gaat over de harde en soms slopende confrontatie tussen klant en consulent bij de Sociale Dienst. Waar moet de focus liggen? Op het uitvoeren van algemene regels of is individueel maatwerk noodzakelijk
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Africa in Black & White - Big Picture's posterous →
Sociale media populair bij zoektocht baan →
Bijna een kwart van de werknemers (22 procent) gebruikt steeds vaker alleen nog maar sociale media, zoals LinkedIn, Facebook en Twitter, om vacatures te zoeken.
Quakebook: the online story helping deliver aid in...
guardian:
From ourmaninabiko on YouTube
What began as a simple post on Twitter from a British resident of Japan who wanted to help in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami has now reached fruition in the form of an online publishing project that will see much-needed aid finding its way to tens of thousands of survivors
