ACOE Early Learning Coaching Cohort: Navigating the Complexities of Culturally Rich Communities – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-10 12:00:00 in United States Have you ever wondered how your own culture, values, and knowledge impact your strengths, perceptions, triggers and strategies when supporting educators? Please join us on this personal and professional journey …
Mistrust and earthquakes: why Lancashire communities are so shaken by fracking tremors: After a month of tranquillity, fracking has resumed at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool triggering the biggest tremor to date. There have been 12 tremors over a four-day period, including the biggest so far – the 1.5 magnitude quake. In total, …
ACOE Early Learning Coaching Cohort: Navigating the Complexities of Culturally Rich Communities – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-09-13 12:00:00 in United States Have you ever wondered how your own culture, values, and knowledge impact your strengths, perceptions, triggers and strategies when supporting educators? Please join us on this personal and professional journey …
Finding ways to keep communities alive after mine closures: Shutterstock South Africa’s economy was built on the mining industry. But the sector has been in decline for decades. Mining contributed R312 billion, or 6.8%, to South Africa’s GDP and 464 667 direct jobs in 2017, a far cry from the 21% contribution to GDP in …
South Africa in the news: Zwane ordered to regard mining communities in new #MiningCharter: He committed himself to intensify engagements with all stakeholders on the Mining Charter “to ensure that it is truly an effective instrument to sustainably transform the face of mining in South Africa.” Advocate Chris Loxton, appearing on behalf of …: “South …
Check out this WordPress Publishing image: Mixed Communities? Image by Alan Stanton As the photo shows, my copy of this book is getting a bit dog-eared. But as more of my London Labour Party colleagues start talking about "Mixed Communities" it’s time to pull it out from the shelves again. ???It seems that many people …
Opposing net neutrality threatens the viability of open source communities: The net neutrality discussion is, at its core, about free speech on the internet. Free speech online is a driving force for the online community; an average of 1.32 billion people each day share their voices on Facebook alone (as of June 2017). It’s possible …
4 ways to measure success in open source communities: This week wraps up our monthly blogging challenge with an appropriate topic: How do you measure success? As I wrote in my post below, I think the first step to measuring success is to know what your goal is. But first, let’s ask: read more: Opensource.com …
How communities in India support privacy and software freedom: The free and open source communities in India, particularly Mozilla and Wikimedia communities, are leading two unique global events for better privacy and in support of free software. read more: Opensource.com psubhashish Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?
9 rules for the proper care and feeding of communities and carnivorous plants: In 2016, I adopted my first carnivorous plants, a Venus Fly Trap and a Pitcher Plant, which my Facebook friends named Gordon and Bananarama, respectively. I quickly discovered that the health of Gordon and Bananarama was closely connected to the environment I …
Family doctors are the key to improving primary health care in communities: A doctor immunises a baby at the Shire Clinic in Ethiopia. Most health systems in Africa are fully developed. UNICEF Ethiopia/2009/Tuschman Countries that have well developed primary health care systems are known to have better health outcomes, fewer people in hospital, increased patient …
Digitizing healthcare in underserved communities – a Africa interest event taking place on 2016-10-06 19:30:00 in Germany Digitizing healthcare in underserved communities: A leap in Africa's development? Remote communities in Africa often suffer from underdeveloped public infrastructures. This involves such diverse public goods as roads and education, but also healthcare and telecommunications. The massive digitization of …
What we can learn from communities in Nigeria on how to improve security: Policewomen lock hands during a protest march in Nigeria.Collaboration between police and communities is helping improve safety in parts of the country. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde It is glaringly obvious across the world that state capacity to prevent crime and provide security is becoming …
What South African tech start-ups can do to improve rural communities: REALITIES OF POVERTY: Scott Zambonini, Enterprise Development Manager for Seda Nelson Mandela Bay ICT Incubator (SNII), shares his view on how tech start-ups can improve healthcare and education in rural communities. Port Elizabeth, 18 May 2016 – Approximately one third of South Africa’s population …
Impostor syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect in communities: At OSCON 2016 in Austin, Jessica Rose, developer relations at Dream Factory, will give a talk called Impostor syndrome and individual competence. In this interview, she explains the role the Dunning-Kruger effect plays in open source communities, and offers tips for managers to help them recognize when …
So, you want to start using that open source thing… read more Opensource.com – druthb Supporting Open Source.
Atlassian, parent company of popular chat service HipChat, started in 2002 with just two people. Thirteen years later, there are more than 1,300 of us spread around the world. That kind of growth forced the need for us to organize our open source efforts around a single point of contact, establish a rhythm in the company …