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Author Archives: Ciarán
Development Book Corner
As has probably been evident over the last year, I’ve put quite a bit of work into trying to keep the African section of the website interesting. I’m not a techy but we do plan to include things like all the schools with photos on Google maps and so forth in the coming year. [...]
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Gender Education Module
Camara is delighted to announce the completion of its Gender Education Module. While our core objective is to improve formal educational attainment, there is clearly huge potential for technology to advance social issues. To date we’ve developed material around both HIV/AIDS Education and Disability, with Nutrition on the way. Mainstreaming these issues [...]
Posted in Africa, Monitoring and Evaluation, News, education Tagged Cesar, education, eimear Rouine, gender 2 Comments
Positive News
Given that we’ve been slipping on quite a number of tables recently, it’s nice to be beating the Scandinavians at something!
Using computers to teach maths
As a fully paid-up Ted obsessive- I thought this was really useful. He’s a mathematician and thus not quite as captivating as a human would be making the same point, but really interesting anyway
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The Development Book Corner
This is pretty self-explanatory. All part of my endeavours to make the Africa section a bit more interesting by the day
If you’ve any comments please post below
New Africa Stuff on the Website
A bunch of new stuff has just gone up under the Africa section. Firstly all of the Mainstreaming material that’s been developed is under Our Work in Africa/Development in Africa. There’s also a really good new Jeffrey Sachs video up where he talks about the importance of ICTs
I found this pretty funny
And because it’s got excellent Development credentials I’m ok to post it!
http://aidwatchers.com/2010/08/be-careful-what-you-get-searched-for/
Camara PC Breakage Rates
I found this really interesting. We were collectively musing in the office as to how the breakage rates of Camara pcs compare with new pcs. Ste found the following which was really interesting
(From Google answers)
Below you find will the results of my research for first year failure
rates of desktop and laptop PCs for [...]
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How ‘good’ is Camara?
I’m thinking a lot about this stuff at the moment. Whenever people are deciding to donate to a charity or support them in any way, they always make some sort of value judgement about them.
What I find frustrating at times is that many people form these judgements based on the brand of an organisation. [...]
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Funny NGO Stuff