Mike, you do wind up in some strange places. Let me know if you need company.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael gurstein" <[email protected]>
To: "'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some thoughts on "Glocality" and a Special Issueof
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> The project I'm working on is concerned with figuring out how to use ICTs to
> enable the grassroots to participate more effectively in various of the many
> multi-stakeholder policy processes that are now taking place or beginning to
> take place on a national level in various parts of Africa being
> supported/stimulated through NEPAD/AU. The land rush in Africa is filtering
> through into policy in various places in different ways but for me the
> ultimate question is whether the folks most affected i.e. the grassroots
> farmers are in a position to influence what is happening overall...
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:24 AM
> To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION
> Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some thoughts on "Glocality" and a Special Issue of
> the Journal of Community Informatics
>
> Mike! Watch your ass.
>
> And that project leans toward ???
>
> from: AU/NEPAD AFRICAN ACTION PLAN 2010‐2015, P4, African Development Bank,
> 2009 "The benefit of a regional integration approach to energy in Africa is
> expected to be a win‐win situation for all stakeholders involved."
>
> I'm almost certain I must have taken it out of context as it was only a
> spotty read, but are you sussing out the ability of the locals to repay the
> investment loans to the influx of "investors" that is about to happen?
> Or, am I way out of line here?
>
> Darryl
>
>
> On 03/09/2012 6:36 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
>> I'm right now in a guest house in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina
>> Faso, the third poorest country in the world as measured by the World
>> Bank among others... On the edge of the Sahel and bordered by some of
>> the currently/recently unsettled countries of the region--Mali, Ivory
>> Coast, Niger... I'm doing some background work for a significant
>> Community Informatics project that the e-Africa division of NEPAD/the
>> African Union wishes to undertake throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
>>
>> This afternoon between appointments I went for a walk in the centre of
>> the city towards the Grand Mosque, a very Moorish structure in desert
>> coloured sandstone. It was around 4 pm and as I was walking I came
>> across rows of men undertaking one of their daily prayers only this
>> time in public led by what looked like a lay preacher. As I walked
>> further I kept coming across these street corner prayer
>> sessions--perhaps 3 or 4 within a three block radius and not more than two
>> blocks from the main Mosque in Ouga.
>>
>> This evening I'm back at the guest house doing things on the
>> reasonably good Internet connection.
>>
>> It is getting late--now it is about 1.30 am local time.
>>
>> I've just e-published the most recent issue of the online Journal of
>> Community Informatics.
>> http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/editor/issueToc/30
>> Glocality: Thinking about Community Informatics and the Local in the
>> Global and the Global in the Local.
>>
>> For the last half hour or so I've been hearing the sounds of jet
>> planes flying low overhead--back and forth, back and forth. At first I
>> thought they might be commercial planes coming in to land--but this is
>> Burkina Faso where there are probably no more than a dozen flights in
>> and out a day and I would guess none of them are scheduled for 1 am.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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