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    Alice Backer

  • #Cardicis3 Day 1: debate about role of Haitian Government (22.06 14:44) ]\" id=\"f_218882640\">#Cardicis3 Day 1: debate about role of Haitian Government
  • RECONSTRUCTING HAITI: WOMEN AT THE CENTER (MAY 4) (04.05 00:32) This is tomorrow Tuesday. Hope to see you there!The New York Women's Foundation The Haitian Roundtable Equality Now BelTiFi PotoFanm+Ficordially invite you toRECONSTRUCTING HAITI: WOMEN AT THE CENTERWhere are the voices of Haitian women in the post-earthquake recovery of their country?Introduction: Ana Oliveira, New York Women's FoundationRemarks: Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Manhattan Deputy ... ]\" id=\"f_211259782\">RECONSTRUCTING HAITI: WOMEN AT THE CENTER (MAY 4)
  • I'd like to read Haitian blogs but... (No more excuses!) (28.04 13:24) How do I read Haitian Blogs? What are blogs? Who has the time to blog?Are there any Haitian blogs out there? How do you keep up with all this stuff?Are Haitians saying anything good on Twitter? No more excuses. I spent the last two days aggregating all Haitian blogs known to me in this neat collection:haitianbloggers.collectedWe are far from that day in 2005 when Georgia Popplewell, ... ]\" id=\"f_210552206\">I'd like to read Haitian blogs but... (No more excuses!)
  • Interesting numbers about Haitian-Americans (10.04 02:14) From World Bank economist Dilip Ratha's Blog about migrations, remittances and development: By the way, if you are wondering whether Haitian immigrants are too poor to invest, consider this fact from the Current Population Survey of the US: nearly one-third of Haitian immigrants in the US belong to households that earned more than $60,000 in 2009. In comparison, less than 15% of the immigran.... ]\" id=\"f_207031061\">Interesting numbers about Haitian-Americans
  • Relief effort status update from Internews (#40) #Haiti (08.03 13:40) SHELTER – More than 160,000 pieces of plastic sheeting and more than 13,000 tents are on the way and should be here before the end of March. They will benefit thousands of families who are still looking for shelter ahead of the rainy season.PRESIDENT – President Rene Preval is heading to Washington where he will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama as Congress will likely put pressure on lending ... ]\" id=\"f_202565197\">Relief effort status update from Internews (#40) #Haiti
  • Relief effort status update from Internews (#39) #Haiti (08.03 13:27) IDs – Haitians without ID cards can now have access to the office that issues the national identity cards. The National Office of Identification opened in Babiole this past Monday. LATRINES – DINEPA is offering technical help to people who need help digging latrines the camps. People can get that help by either talking to the camp leaders, or by calling this number: 25-13-20-78. HEALTH/MAL... ]\" id=\"f_202565198\">Relief effort status update from Internews (#39) #Haiti
  • Relief effort status update from Internews (#38) (08.03 12:56) FOOD – Farmers in the Artibonite Valley are going to increase agricultural production, thanks to seeds, fertilizer and know-howm, that it ss going to be offered by USAID. HOTLINE – Women and Children who have been abused by MINUSTAH personnel can call directly to this number: 37-02-64-86 to report violence against them. Each case will be investigated by MINUSTAH. HOUSING – Engineers eva... ]\" id=\"f_202565199\">Relief effort status update from Internews (#38)
  • Relief effort status update from Internews (#36) (04.03 14:05) CAMP SITES - Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive approved 5 sites that will be used as organized camps, along with eight other sites that will be used to dump construction debris. DEBRIS REMOVAL - Joaseus Nadere of the Ministry of Public Works said his department has set a timetable to clear debris from priority buildings set by the government, such as schools and public offices. SECURITY/PR... ]\" id=\"f_201807412\">Relief effort status update from Internews (#36)
  • VIDEO - Performances at Brooklyn Slam for Haiti last weekend (02.03 16:15) Just uploaded these to the kiskeácity YouTube Channel. Event was at Brooklyn Historical Society, Sunday February 28 and benefited Doctors Without Borders. It was organized by Lori Payne and Shirley Brown Alleyne. Brooklyn Historical Trust was a co-sponsor. Alexandra Foucard has been awarded an NAACP Award for Outstanding lead actress and was nominated for a Grammy Nomination for Guys and Dolls. ... ]\" id=\"f_201807413\">VIDEO - Performances at Brooklyn Slam for Haiti last weekend
  • All Eyes On Haiti Panel Discussion - MTV BEAT - Feb. 17th (14.02 14:20) Update 2/17/10: Event postponed to early March. More as soon as I find out. Original Post:Thought I'd let you know that I have been invited to be the guest blogger for this event taking place next Wednesday organized by the Black Employee Affinity Team of MTV Networks for Black History Month. It is not clear yet if the event will be streamed live or edited for later repost. I will keep you posted ... ]\" id=\"f_199768357\">All Eyes On Haiti Panel Discussion - MTV BEAT - Feb. 17th

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    Lova Rakotomalala

  • La série #Jesuisvieux ,traduite: (28.07 02:03) An unexpected but deliciously nostalgic hash tag, #jesuisvieux, has been trending on the French speaking social media scene. Since July 26th, twitter users have been going down memory lane, posting tweets relating their memories from youth with the hash tag #jesuisvieux ( #Iamold for men) or #jesuisvieille ( #Iamold for women). The timeline for the hashtag was filled with often humorous, s... ]\" id=\"f_223995136\">La série #Jesuisvieux ,traduite:
  • A Few Thoughts on Democracy, Journalism and Grandma (21.07 18:26) The good folks at the Comittee to Protect Journalists graciously asked me to opine on the state of media in Madagascar. For the piece, they suggested that I describe a bit about how I experienced media while growing up. Three memories stood out in my mind, my aunt who was the very first news anchor on Malagasy National television, our earnest weather man Ravince and my grandma's radio stereao f... ]\" id=\"f_223343100\">A Few Thoughts on Democracy, Journalism and Grandma
  • Un Monde plus Vaste, un Web plus Vaste Traduction de la Presentation de E. Zuckerman pour TED Globa... (18.07 03:37) Ethan Zuckerman, co-créateur de Global Voices, a donné une présentation à la conférence de TED Global à Oxford le 14 juillet 2010. Voici sa présentation qui explique les potentialités du web si on arrive à créer un vrai terrain d'échange entre les différentes régions du monde, ce qui est encore loin d’être le cas. Cette présentation mérite d’être connu sur le web francophone. Voilà pourquoi j... ]\" id=\"f_223343101\">Un Monde plus Vaste, un Web plus Vaste Traduction de la Presentation de E. Zuckerman pour TED Global (Oxford)
  • The Famine That Shall Not Be Named (13.07 04:24) The largely underreported food crisis in Sahel has taken worrisome proportions as about 2.5 millions of people in Niger are currently affected by food shortage. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has decided to scale up emergency operations to protect the population at risk. Bloggers in Niger reflect on yet another food crisis after the one in 2005, a food crisis this year that is t... ]\" id=\"f_222747040\">The Famine That Shall Not Be Named
  • La Francophonie: Diaspora and Development in #Madagascar #Cameroon #Mali (08.07 23:15) The diaspora of the developing countries worldwide is often mentioned by development experts as a potential driving factor for poverty reduction and the francophone region is no exception. In fact, two conferences are taking places in the upcoming months in Cameroon and Mali about the role of diaspora in supporting development in their respective countries (fr). Still, the current suggested polic... ]\" id=\"f_222747041\">La Francophonie: Diaspora and Development in #Madagascar #Cameroon #Mali
  • #WorldCup: An African coping with Ghana's Cruel Loss (03.07 04:11) Yeah I know, it a just a game, even if it's a beautiful one. I probably should not be writing about Ghana's loss because the pain I feel is nothing compared to the heart break over there in Ghana. But our support, as Africans, was unconditional and our pride, as the Black Stars bid the world cup farewell, is immense. And like Cameroon against England in 1990, another loss in the 1/4 final in ad... ]\" id=\"f_221452545\">#WorldCup: An African coping with Ghana's Cruel Loss
  • Of Independence Day Celebrations in #Madagascar (24.06 15:05) Madagascar 50th Independence Day Anniversary is on June 26th and the festivities are already underway . In spite of a star-studded line-up of international entertainers, the atmosphere is not exactly festive because of the political uncertainty and the economic hardship that resulted from the 18 month-long crisis. Raising the flag and lighting up lanterns to celebrate independence are an endur... ]\" id=\"f_219867375\">Of Independence Day Celebrations in #Madagascar
  • A Malagasy Story (20.06 06:22) This is a Malagasy Story. In March 1947, a Malagasy couple is happily expecting a 5th child. The husband is a pediatrician/public health officer who is often dispatched all over Madagascar to monitor health and nutrition program. His wife stays at home to care for the children and that year, to make sure her pregnancy goes as planned. But 1947 is also the year when the movement for independence ... ]\" id=\"f_218882691\">A Malagasy Story
  • Bloggers' Review of 2010 Elections in Francophone Africa (18.06 01:01) (Cross-posted at Global Voices) 2010 is a busy election year for many francophone African nations. As highlighted by the Mo Ibrahim foundation decision not to award the 2010 Ibrahim prize for African Leadership, the political progress in the region has been disappointing for the past two years. Here is a review of how bloggers have reacted to the elections proceedings so far. Burundi Burundi... ]\" id=\"f_218110867\">Bloggers' Review of 2010 Elections in Francophone Africa
  • Regardez le Mondial Ensemble: France contre Uruguay (11.06 18:14) <a href=http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=9b3723feac >Watching The World Cup Together</a>... ]\" id=\"f_217528975\">Regardez le Mondial Ensemble: France contre Uruguay

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    Jen Brea

  • 非洲人对波诺: “看在上帝的份上请打住吧！ (21.07 14:08) My Africans to Bono piece, translated into Chinese by a friend of mine.  My inbox is already starting to curse me for writing it.  我想知道中国人对这个话题的看法。请你请你说一下你的意见。             作者：Jennifer Brea   写于2007年7月3日，星期二 是让非洲想象它自己未来的时候了。 坦桑尼亚阿鲁沙——非洲是一个让人绝望的洲。在这里，八岁大的孩子背负着AK-47s冲锋枪屠杀整个整个的村庄，而他们古怪的独裁者把反对派的器官摆上筵席，相信那会滋壮他们的阳刚之气。采采蝇啃啮着饥饿的孩子们的眼睑，它们运动着张大的腹部，似乎那是它们生来的权利；更不必说当你读完这篇文章的时候，已经又有六个非洲人死于疟疾，五个死于艾滋，十七个..... ]\" id=\"f_2718459\">非洲人对波诺: “看在上帝的份上请打住吧！
  • Precision in fly patterning (13.07 14:43) I just wanted to give a shout out to a certain biophysicist who is first author on two papers appearing in this month's issue of Cell, one of the world's leading molecular biology journals.  You can probably count on one hand the scientists who have been double published in Cell.  Check out Probing the Limits to Positional Information and Stability and Nuclear Dynamics of the Bicoid Morphoge... ]\" id=\"f_2718460\">Precision in fly patterning
  • The Known World (19.06 10:18) ]\" id=\"f_2061500\">The Known World
  • My First Chinese Blog Post / 我第一个汉语博客贴子 (14.05 16:44) I've recently gotten the mad idea of trying to revive this blog by writing about China from the perspective of a foreigner for a Chinese audience rather than a Western one. (At the moment I'm not altogether comfortable with the idea of interpreting China for the outside world.) There is so much about China that I don't understand and so much about the world I come from that I wish my Chinese f..... ]\" id=\"f_1430379\">My First Chinese Blog Post / 我第一个汉语博客贴子
  • Le Revenant (I haven't picked up Les Fleurs du Mal since high school, but did today and love this po... (07.05 16:07) Le Revenant Comme les anges à l'oeil fauve, Je reviendrai dans ton alcôve Et vers toi glisserai sans bruit Avec les ombres de la nuit; Et je te donnerai, ma brune, Des baisers froids comme la lune Et des caresses de serpent Autour d'une fosse rampant. Quand viendra le matin livide, Tu trouveras ma place vide, Où jusqu'au soir il fera froid. Comme d'autres par la tendresse, Sur ta vie ... ]\" id=\"f_1353846\">Le Revenant (I haven't picked up Les Fleurs du Mal since high school, but did today and love this poem)
  • Inhaling the Spore (26.01 12:46) So beautiful, I had to reprint it. Originally found here. In Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, the first image is of ants foraging for food on the rainforest floor, who every once in a while accidently inhale the spore of a fungus. The spore lodges in their brain and they start to behave oddly. They leave the forest floor for the first time in their lives, climbing up the tendrils of surrounding .... ]\" id=\"f_948147\">Inhaling the Spore
  • Earthquake? (16.01 12:29) I sat in front of the computer starking blankly at the screen.  I was nursing my flu with Echinacea tea and fighting the urge to crawl back into bed where it was warm and the world didn't have to exist  Fragments of old dreams floated in and out of my subconscious, the barrier between the waking world and the unseen world still permeable.  The scary man dressed in shadows who gives chase in slow m... ]\" id=\"f_948148\">Earthquake?
  • My Five (15.01 06:50) David Sasaki just tapped me to play this meme game, which has apparently been circling around the Global Voices family for quite some time.  Ethan, Rebecca, Neha and Ndesanjo have all played.  Many GVers, I found, have presidential ambitions.  Ethan ran for president in 1988 and Ndesanjo still hopes to become the first dreadlocked president (you mean there hasn't been one yet?). Rebecca almost b... ]\" id=\"f_948149\">My Five
  • In India (15.12 06:15) I'm traveling in India at the moment for the Global Voices conference. Hope to be back to blogging after the New Year. In the meanwhile, you can check out my India photos at my Flickr page. ... ]\" id=\"f_948150\">In India
  • By Jove He's Got It! Or I Heart Drosophila (01.12 19:21) Two-photon imaging of early Drosophila embryos expressing GFP-tagged proteins ... ]\" id=\"f_948151\">By Jove He's Got It! Or I Heart Drosophila

    Jen Brea

  • Black with red leather (17.07 17:31) Kind of like this one, which I didn't like all that much.... ]\" id=\"f_46982551\">Black with red leather
  • One Laptop per Child Soliciting Applications from College Students (09.03 05:09) David Sengeh, a junior at Harvard College studying biomedical engineering and originally from Sierra Leone, has asked me to share the following with you:One Laptop per Child is beginning a summer grant program in which up to 100 teams of university students from around the world will distribute thousands of XO laptops to children in Africa this summer. Partnering with schools and non-governmental ... ]\" id=\"f_21914475\">One Laptop per Child Soliciting Applications from College Students
  • Obama and America's 'patchwork heritage' (30.01 22:16) After a some cajoling and loving harassment by friends, I've decided to properly repost an article I recently wrote for CNN.com, Obama and America's 'patchwork heritage'.  Thank you to everyone who connected with the piece and reached out via email.  America is a far more diverse and complex place than the stories that usually get told.*   *   * WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When I was a small child, even .... ]\" id=\"f_20328182\">Obama and America's 'patchwork heritage'
  • An Inauguration List (22.01 05:45) On Tuesday, I stood on the mall, in the cold, with 2 million of my fellow Americans, because I wanted to be able to tell my kids, when they learn about this chapter of our history in elementary school, that I was there.  Some day, I will take them to the Mall and point to the spot on the high ground on the east side the Washington Monument where I watched a sea of every color extend all the way t... ]\" id=\"f_19328187\">An Inauguration List
  • Two CNN links (22.01 05:42) I was recently interviewed by John Blake at CNN.com on the new first family:Black first family 'changes everything' - CNN.comAnd also wrote this commentary:Commentary: Obama and America's 'patchwork heritage' - CNN.comThe coolest part, from my perspective, is the opportunity to be a small part of such amazing history.... ]\" id=\"f_19328188\">Two CNN links
  • It's Sunday before the inauguration (19.01 18:50) If you're still on the fence about whether to make the trek to DC for the inauguration, get your ass down here!I arrived late at the We Are the One concert.  We filled half the Mall.  There were more music and movie celebrities than the Oscars, and all to fête this man.  Every time Obama's face appeared on the JumboTron, the crowds roared.  He's become Jesus, or Elvis, and the streets of DC, a sor... ]\" id=\"f_19328189\">It's Sunday before the inauguration
  • Mr. Balousha's Five Daughters (06.01 00:38) Mr. Balousha's five daughters were crushed to death when an bomb, most likely an American bomb, landed on the mosque next to their house.  The Balousha daughters were six, seven, eight, fourteen and seventeen years old.  I've linked to this story not because it is the only one, but because you might be like me.  I am completely incapable of comprehending body counts.  I have to be able to imagine ... ]\" id=\"f_18729342\">Mr. Balousha's Five Daughters
  • Artists in Uniform (02.01 23:46) I've just been reading an essay by Mary McCarthy, Artists in Uniform, written in 1953.  She tries to show a much less educated man, a colonel of Irish extraction, the error of his anti-Semitic ways.  He thinks with a name like McCarthy, they should be kindred spirits (Think back; when you were a kid, didn't the word, Jew, just make you feel sick?).  She never tells him that for all her Irish l... ]\" id=\"f_17996507\">Artists in Uniform
  • The recession (31.12 21:48) Friday I had a drink  with an old friend.  She was in town visiting her boyfriend (let's call him Fred), who was home for the holidays.  We all went to college together.  They asked me how I was liking Boston. My mom came up to visit, I told them.  On Christmas Eve day, we were walking toward Cardullo's, a gourmet shop in Harvard Square, to buy some chocolates.Mom's been living in Florida the l..... ]\" id=\"f_17996508\">The recession
  • My bookshelves (05.12 09:48) I'm bingeing on Amazon.  There are these two very tall, very empty bookshelves in my basement demanding to be filled.  I've sorted the one's I've got into methods books (which, because I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life, range from Game Theory for Applied Economists to Python for Dummies); books on Chinese history; books in Chinese (one of the boxes I shipped from Beijing a..... ]\" id=\"f_16261991\">My bookshelves

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