You're describing Ron Hubbell and that awful Science Fiction movie with scientology space invaders with John Travolta in dred locks. First we get Ayn Rand and next is Hubbell. That's quite a world the witches are dreaming. When WILL they meet again?
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:48 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 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 > > -----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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Futurework mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >> > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
