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What we leave behind
I watch a lot of documentaries, but few leave their mark on me like this one. On 22 August 1962, a 20-year-old German called Heinz Stücke left home with a bicycle and a tent. He was leaving what he described as a ‘life without a future’ to follow what most people would have…
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The FrontlineSMS Story
A new page on kiwanja.net brings together the papers, news coverage, talks, screenshots and little-known insider history of FrontlineSMS. The post The FrontlineSMS Story appeared first on kiwanja.net .
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Beautifully Borrowed: A book about living
Earlier this summer I turned sixty. I wrote about it here at the time, about how it didn’t feel like a milestone so much as a nudge, a tap on the shoulder from someone leaning over to say you know you don’t have forever, don’t you? I talked about sitting down and asking AI to ……
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Welcoming back the Mobile Database
Between 2003 and 2010, kiwanja.net tracked hundreds of early experiments in mobile technology for international development – many before ICT4D was a familiar term – and years before most NGOs had given mobile phones a second thought. Despite its popularity the Mobile Database…
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Technology. Spirituality. Change.
I’ve spent much of my life working at the intersection of technology and social good, something many of us used to call ICT4D. Over the years I’ve been involved in projects that use mobile phones to improve healthcare, increase access to education and give a voice to people…
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Welcome to ‘One Beautiful Road’
Most people want to make a difference. Almost everyone, if you ask them directly, will say they’d like to think the world might be a little better off as a result of their philanthropic efforts. And yet so much of that willingness rarely turns into anything real. It’s not…
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Sixty
I turned sixty this summer. I’ve been sitting with that short sentence for a while now, not quite sure what to do with it. It doesn’t feel like a milestone so much as a nudge. A tap on the shoulder. Someone leaning over and saying, quietly, you know you don’t have forever, don’t…
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Return of the reluctant innovator
Life has a funThe Return of the Reluctant Innovator: Lessons from Ukraine A couple of weeks ago I was talking with my kids about the new UK Defence Investment Plan, parts of which commit us to developing advanced drone technology by 2030. I couldn’t help but make the point that…
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Why frontier organisations need an Explorer
We’re entering an era where our greatest challenges are no longer purely technical. Think artificial intelligence, climate change, space exploration, biodiversity loss, human rights and global health, among countless others. Every one of them demands extraordinary innovation,…
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Caught between Gaza and a hard place
It’s been a challenging week. Not as challenging, of course, for those who continue to suffer in Gaza, the West Bank, South Lebanon and beyond, but challenging for me in a different kind of way. My LinkedIn posts, whatever the topic, tend to come from a place of genuine…
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The Little Book of Mindful Social Change
It’s been nearly four years since I wrote my last book. Given I’m not a professional writer who makes a living from the art, that’s fine. But last week a book idea came to me out of nowhere, and in the spirit of not resting on my laurels I got to work on it straight … Continue…
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This is fine
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes or off the street. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared”. This quote is taken…