My storify-ed livetweets from panel discussion on foreign policy & humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda & the Congo in response to the international media attention garnered by Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. With Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, Milton Allimadi of Black Star News, a[...]
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April 14th, 2012 - 1:15 pm § in Uncategorized
Bigger than Kony: Livetweeting an Open Discussion
Tags: advocacy, awareness raising, Black Star News, Busboys and Poets, China, Congo, donors, DRC, Free South Africa movement, Friends of the Congo, Great Lakes region, humanitarian aid, international aid, International Criminal Court, international NGOs, Invisible Children, Juba peace talks, Kagame, Kony2012, local civil society, Maurice Carney, militarization, Milton Allimadi, Museveni, Nicole Lee, Northern Uganda, Operation Lightning Thunder, privilege, racism, Somalia, South Sudan, StopKony, TransAfrica Forum, Uganda No Comments
February 7th, 2012 - 4:01 pm § in Guest Bloggers
Don’t change the message. Change the messenger.
Weh Yeoh of whydev.org argues that everything that we do in development is about selling a message. But how do we convince people when a message goes against the grain of what they already believe?[...]
Tags: aid conditionality, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Bill Gates, Brendan Rigby, China, communications, David Cameron, Development Crossroads, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Glee, HIV, HPV vaccine, influence, international aid, international development, Jet Li, New Scientist, NGO communications, NGOs, peer coaching, philanthropy, Shana Montesol Johnson, social enterprise, Weh Yeoh, whydev.org, Zimbabwe 7 Comments
