Thanks Ed, actually it seems that there are a fair number of Canadians around but of the "moiling for gold" variety.
Got into a taxi and the driver was telling me about Canadians in Burkina looking for "god"… I was a wee bit skeptical but evidently he was making a rather interesting pun on God/gold and his particular accent. (the term he was using was Canadians looking for the "second" god (gold… M From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:05 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some thoughts on "Glocality" and a Special Issueof the Journal of Community Informatics Mike, you do wind up in some strange places. Let me know if you need company. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael gurstein" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> To: "'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Some thoughts on "Glocality" and a Special Issueof the Journal of Community Informatics > 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: <mailto:[email protected]> > [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> >> 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 >> <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] >> <https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework> >> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >> > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > <https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework> > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > <https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework> > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >
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