Mike that is a tough row to hoe. Without the education to understand the
losses that poisonous agribusiness will bring, the peoples will have
less will to do the right things for food production and proper
maintenance of the soils and bio-habitats. And once the "frackers" get
in, it's all over.
Good luck.
Darryl
On 03/09/2012 10:32 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
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
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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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