Thanks, this is very useful. I really like the last idea of the ecology of need. I beleive it is one of the things that are preventing the sustainability for nmany social interventions and programmes across the world and in the Caribbean. For example in Jamaica, several persons enter a community provide persons with the opportunity but illiteracy, poverty, culture, etc prevents the programme from making that exponential impact that it had intended to. The result is that within months the programme fails and is forced to withdraw from the community. The designers then go back to the drawing board. To be able to understand the ecology of need we cannot just recognise a problem in a handful of persons and beleive then that it warrants intervention. Proper research must be done at phase one to determine the needs of the individuals living wthin a specific area - the truth is these programs really need a wholistic approach. You may be going to reduce illiteracy but you will have to include poverty reduction components such as school feeding programmes, uniform allowances, travel stipend, etc. Regards, Jaevion Nelson Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network www.jamaicayouthadvocacynetwork.org Asst. Programmes Officer Violence Prevention Alliance www.vpajamaica.com
Jaevion Nelson (Jae) > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:36:26 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social > networking> > The intervener--all of us who want to help--studies the culture > and the need> before choosing a path. Before choosing a technology.> > Where > there is a "digital divide" there are often--usually--other divides.> For > example: there may be no Internet in the area to be served. Or there may> be > Internet but many of the intended beneficiaries have no electricity.> > Or > they cannot read. Cannot read what is on the computer screen, whether it> is > in English or Twi.> > That is: there is an "ecology of need." If the > good-hearted social> entrepreneur does not have a complete map of the > territory of need, it is> almost certain that he or she will blunder.> > > Steve Eskow> > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > This post from the Trinidad and Tobago Computing list > may be of interest> > to some. It demonstrates geographical distribution of > social network> > use. It is a nice datapoint, I think.> >> > Richard Jobity > wrote:> > > > ********************************************************************> > > > Computing - General Discussion on Computing in Trinidad and Tobago> > >> > > > ********************************************************************> > > > http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=336> > >> > > With the help of Google data, we > have looked at 12 of the top social> > > networks to answer a simple, but > highly interesting question:> > >> > > Where are they the most popular?> > >> > > > The social networks we included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook,> > > > Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo,> > > > Imeem and Twitter.> > > Popularity by country (how we got the data)> > >> > > > Google Insights for Search makes this quite easy for you. For a search> > > > term (for example "MySpace"), it will highlight the regions where that> > > > search term is the most popular. Google calls this "regional interest".> > >> > > > This "regional interest" should give a good indication of which regions> > > > (in this case countries) a social network is most popular in.> > >> > > > Google also provides a nice heat map of the results. We have included> > > > the heapmaps for all the social networks below.> > >> > >> > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=imeem&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q> > > >> > >> > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=facebook&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q> > > >> >> > --> > Taran Rampersad> > Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > http://www.knowprose.com> > > http://www.your2ndplace.com> >> > Pictures: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/> >> > "Criticize by creating." — > Michelangelo> > "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really > worked, is mine." -> > Nikola Tesla> >> > > _______________________________________________> > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing > list> > [email protected]> > > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide> > To unsubscribe, > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the > message.> >> _______________________________________________> DIGITALDIVIDE > mailing list> [email protected]> > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide> To unsubscribe, send > a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the > message. _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
