We are the future: an event on innovative partnerships for achieving the SDGs Since the historical endorsement in 2015 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Global Goals week is organized in New York as world leaders gather for the …
A few days ago, Simone Sala was in Egypt to head a workshop on ICTs and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. Today he is in Bruges, Belgium, to talk about innovation and digital solutions for a more equal world at the Re-inventing Europe Youth Conference. Then he’s off to Guatemala …
I must recognize that if I have to choose between a neoliberal development and a post-development approach, I would certainly take the last one as most development theorists do, depending on the definition of post-development we refer among the existing hundreds, though. To apply Western views of development and progress …
Anti-nuclear weapons campaigns are not new. Post II World War society also protested against it, especially in the 60’s when the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed by John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khruschevh in 1963. Organizations like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth or other groups advocating for a treaty …
Aid Services in the age of Communication and Technology The development in the information and communication technology is almost affecting all aspects of our lives. Changing our habits and creating a new sort of modern lifestyle. The way we communicate at work and how we conduct our daily business. …
What can Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital data do for development and aid in terms of transparency? Are new technologies allowing development partners to share data more efficiently to facilitate planning and coordination of development assistance, and can those on the receiving end get a better idea of …
The ways of donating money are moving into our personal daily life in different apperans. From our living room to public transport through advertisements. In this post I will point out on how organizations use new technology to collect their funding’s. Three common ways are described and discussed below. Text …
Have aid and development work become a commercial business? Aid organizations are in many areas enforced to act similar as a profit business, to keep up with customers’ behavior and requirements. Two points that are getting more similar to a profit-making business is that aid organizations have needed to adapt …
Once upon a time, diplomats travelled by horse to hand over handwritten messages of peace. Or threats of war. Sometimes, once they arrived, war was already a fact. Today, the president of the United States uses Twitter to spread messages about destroying another country, and the other country’s response quickly …
Maybe the hardest part of this article was to think about the title. At first, I thought about calling it “The revolution of crisis mapping in humanitarian response”. But, is it really a revolution? Then, I thought: “The ‘could be’ revolution of crisis mapping…” But, actually, crisis mapping has made …
