Author Archives: Ciarán

The Development Book Corner

By Ciarán | Published: August 30, 2010
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
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New Africa Stuff on the Website

By Ciarán | Published: August 27, 2010
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
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I found this pretty funny

By Ciarán | Published: August 24, 2010
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/
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Camara PC Breakage Rates

By Ciarán | Published: August 12, 2010
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?

By Ciarán | Published: August 3, 2010
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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Camara epic poem

By Ciarán | Published: July 21, 2010
This was genuinely for an application. An ‘epic story’ in 2 pages about Camara under the set headings. Yes I am a 12 year old This_is_European_Social_Innovation
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Saturday Closing

By Ciarán | Published: July 20, 2010
As the staff member rostered for this coming Saturday, I would like to wholeheartedly welcome the courageous and insightful decision to close the workshop on that date…
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NEW HANS ROSLING POST!!!

By Ciarán | Published: July 16, 2010
Just put on TED this week. If you haven’t seen this guy trawl back through his videos. He’s unbelievable!
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Sarah Carey article

By Ciarán | Published: July 16, 2010
Sarah chaired the conference and was great. I deeply enjoyed the word MoNGO! http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0716/1224274818297.html
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Interesting Irish Times Article

By Ciarán | Published: July 14, 2010
I thought this was quite good. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0714/1224274658288.html As someone who frequently gets frustrated with working in Africa a reminder like this is no bad thing
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