Social Computing Group Blog » aid http://socialcomp.com/blog Glimpses of Our Hive Mind Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:57:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The World According to USAID http://socialcomp.com/blog/806 http://socialcomp.com/blog/806#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:48:36 +0000 Jason http://socialcomp.com/blog/806 The World According to USAID

This animated cartogram, created by William and Mary student Ashley Ingram and blogged by Mike Tierney at AidData’s The First Tranche, shows aid flows from the US government to the rest of the world from 1985 to 2008.

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/806/feed 0 AidData – new portal seeks to track the … http://socialcomp.com/blog/682 http://socialcomp.com/blog/682#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:24:23 +0000 Jason http://socialcomp.com/blog/682 AidData – new portal seeks to track the flow of aid money worldwide

http://aidwatchers.com/2010/03/new-portal-seeks-to-liberate-the-aid-data/

http://www.aiddata.org

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/682/feed 0 Jacqueline Novogratz and Dambisa Moyo de… http://socialcomp.com/blog/496 http://socialcomp.com/blog/496#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:14:24 +0000 Jason http://socialcomp.com/blog/496 Jacqueline Novogratz and Dambisa Moyo debate aid to Africa on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/us/2009/07/05/gps.africaaid.debate.cnn

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/496/feed 0 Aid Ironies: Jeff Sachs argues against D… http://socialcomp.com/blog/445 http://socialcomp.com/blog/445#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 12:27:36 +0000 Jason http://socialcomp.com/blog/445 Aid Ironies: Jeff Sachs argues against Dambisa Moyo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/aid-ironies_b_207181.html

And Dambisa offers a rebuttal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dambisa-moyo/aid-ironies-a-response-to_b_207772.html

Some observers point out that all the voices taking issue with Dambisa seem to be coming from non-Africans. Interesting. (previously)

]]> http://socialcomp.com/blog/445/feed 0 Dambisa Moyo (author of Dead Aid) discus… http://socialcomp.com/blog/421 http://socialcomp.com/blog/421#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 16:33:07 +0000 Jason http://socialcomp.com/blog/421 Dambisa Moyo (author of Dead Aid) discusses why giving money to Africa makes it poorer

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