May 31st, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Media, Technology
This is a chance to into citizen media, someone in Nigeria can use this money:
“Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media […]
May 31st, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Governance, Health, Human Rights, Nigeria
I did muse last year over the Pfizer 1996 clinical trials in Kano. What bothered me most at that time wasn’t how Pfizer went about the experiment, but the fact that the government of Kano state and the feds knew about the ethical lapses in the Pfizer job via a commission’s report. This was sometime […]
May 30th, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Africa, Business and Entrepreneurship, Corruption, Democracy, Governance, TED Africa
“Negative images of Africa dominate the news: famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria, says there’s a less-told story unfolding in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity.”
Enjoy the video, courtesy of TED.
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May 25th, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Activism, Darfur, Governance, Human Rights, Sudan
This is the kind of message members of the African Union need to send to Khartoum:
“On Wednesday May 23, Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed Senate File 1075, a targeted divestment bill which will divest Minnesota’s State Board of Investment from companies that support the genocidal government of Sudan. “Minnesotans can be proud that we are taking […]
May 23rd, 2007 | by Imnakoya | published in Business and Entrepreneurship, Media, Web 2.0
As a blogger and budding web entrepreneur, this is one story I can’t overlook: a medical doctor that made some $300 million doing nothing but selling and manipulating domain names. How possible?
According to CNN Money:
“The man at the top of this little-known hierarchy is Kevin Ham — one of a handful of major-league “domainers” in […]
