Updates

  • FT.com on Jozi

    A friend who lives in New York sent me this awesome article by William MacNamara on the regeneration of Jozi inner city in the Financial Times. It made me realise how important it is…

  • ‘The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation’

    David Bollier has a great article on onthecommons.org that talks about the differences between the ‘commons’ and ‘market’ sectors and their inter-relationship. ‘The commons sanctions idiosyncratic experimentation and creativity that is often too risky…

  • Global Voices Summit

    I just blogged about the Global Voices Summit and the importance of community for bloggers on Techleader. What an awesome event. Pic: by nehavish on Flickr, CC BY-NC

  • Rising Voices

    This awesome video produced by David Sasaki introduces the Rising Voices project of Global Voices which ‘aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by…

  • What makes an organisation ‘global’?

    I just wrote this as my letter in the iCommons Lab Report (to subscribe go here): Dear friends, Last week, the iCommons team had a short workshop session to practice the ‘Checklist on openness’…

  • Help please

    I know that there are probably a lot of requests for help going around, but I received a message from IkamvaYouth based in Khayelitsha that , as a result of the xenophobic violence, they…

  • Handing over quietly

    There was no cake, no champagne – not even a speech. And it’s only now that I’ve been able to take a breath, that I can say this about my decision to hand over…

  • A weekend in the bush

    Last weekend, at Lou and Mike’s wedding at Gwahumbe in KZN, I reconnected with old friends, the Takis brothers from Swaziland who I last saw about eight years ago on one of my very…

  • HFord 3.0

    7pm, Elton Place: Anna B, me, Lara and Steph 10pm: Melrose Arch, The Venue (which venue? the venue) midnight: 4am: The Bohemian 10am the next day: I’ve never felt so special. Thank you to…

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