Social Computing Group Blog » aid http://socialcomp.com/blog Glimpses of Our Hive Mind Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:48:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 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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