(The Humanitarian Social Network)
Development is like music
A guest post on how-matters.org by Oscar Abello
That video of Victor Wooten doing a solo electric bass performance of Amazing Grace just blows my mind. (See it on YouTube here.) In a recent TEDed video, he plays a slightly toned-down…
ContinueAdded by Jennifer Lentfer on September 10, 2012 at 8:14pm — No Comments
Games in International Development: Fad or Innovation?
People have been playing more games these days in Washington D.C. And I don’t mean the strategies of the Obama and Romney spin teams.
Two recent events suggest games’ growing popularity in D.C. aid circles: this one I attended at the World Wildlife Fund earlier this month and this Tuesday’s upcoming …
ContinueAdded by Jennifer Lentfer on August 26, 2012 at 9:55am — No Comments
Bad guys, good guys, and the people in between
I won’t share the video that many of my fellow bloggers reacted to today. Because of its slick production value, Invisible Children’s Kony2012 campaign will get plenty of attention without a link from me.
I did attempt to watch the whole video, but I have to confess that I stopped when Invisible Children’s founder asks his 3-year-old to explain who the “bad guys” are and what daddy does, i.e. he goes after them. The simplistic narrative of heroes and villains – this, among other…
ContinueAdded by Jennifer Lentfer on March 7, 2012 at 8:52pm — No Comments
Sarah Davitt added a discussion to the group NGOs & Gender (Pretty on Paper)
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