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Blogswana: Time to Say GoodbyeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Brian and Curt came up with the idea for a blogging-for-others project, to be located in the southern African country of Botswana in March of last year. We wanted to do something that put blogging on the ground, that was very practical, and that helped out Africa in a non-Bono, non-Brad Pitt, non-Big NGO way. Representatives of the University of Botswana and, later, representatives of Northern Arizona University, both indicated a lot of interest in the project. So, Brian took responsibility for writing grants and I for hitting up individuals, specifically those who had made a huge amount of money from the Internet. Two or ...
Source: Blogswana - December 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Curt Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Comments on BlogswanaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The overwhelming majority of comments on Blogswana are deeply-thought, deeply-felt and most of all, authored by human beings. Unfortunately, and increasing number are spam. To counter-act that, we’ve made it necessary for each initial contribution by a commenter to go throw one of the editors for approval. If it takes a little while for yours to appear, that is the reason.
Source: Blogswana - December 11, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Curt Tags: Blogswana Blogswana spam comments Source Type: blogs

Blogswana ChipIn Widget for FundraisingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We have created a ChipIn account to raise money for a “field trip” to Botswana to conduct blogging seminars at the University of Botswana for interested students and faculty. This is a kind of “pilot project” for the larger Blogswana project. This site will not host a copy of the widget until we migrate it to our own servers, which we’re hoping to do soon. So, if you would like to donate, visit the Chipin widget on the Committee to Protect Bloggers site, visit the Blogswana ChipIn page, or click here. If you would like to help us distribute the fundraising, please make a copy of the Botswana p...
Source: Blogswana - December 9, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Fundraising Blogswana chipin fundraising botswana committee_to_prot Source Type: blogs

Committee to Protect Bloggers ReactivatedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Our parent organization, the Committee to Protect Bloggers, has come out of its hiatus. Visit the site and subscribe to the fee for up-to-the-minute information on threatened bloggers and threats to bloggers worldwide. Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers, threatened_bloggers, censorship, free_speech, human_rights
Source: Blogswana - August 23, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Curt Tags: Sponsors & Partners Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers threatened_bloggers censorship free_speech human_rights Source Type: blogs

The African Internet & BlogosphereEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Itai Madamombe’s recent article in the United Nations magazine Africa Renewal describes internet use in a rural school in Uganda. In this community well off of the electrical grid (generators supply the electricity) students have access to DSL. Madamombe writes that during the World Cup students closely monitored their favorite teams. Both teachers and students were enthusiastic about utilizing ICTs (information and communication technologies). Munhana Paul Rogers, a 17-year old student, told Africa Renewal: Since Bugulumbya received computers, we see a big difference in the way we learn. When you have the Internet...
Source: Blogswana - August 17, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Motho ke motho ka motho yo mongweEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I attended a wedding of a couple of friends about a year ago. The bride was blessed to have grown up in a caring family and as part of a caring community. She became the fine person she is today due in part to the influence of those around her. At the wedding there were over a hundred guests. It was obvious that her friends were now benefitting from their contact with her. I wanted to make mention of this, so I wrote on my wedding gift card to them the Setswana proverb: Motho ke motho ka motho yo mongwe A person becomes human through his or her interaction with other people. I admit that I also wanted to add to...
Source: Blogswana - July 2, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

A Continent’s Response Part III: the CHGA Interactive EthiopiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Now that those that were supposed to pass on these skills die before they can do that, we need to look into other ways to ensure that new new generations are able to generate a livelihood out of their resources. Mary Chinery-Hesse, CHGA Commissioner In my previous post I made mention of the “brain drain” affecting the health infrastructure throughout Africa. Participants at the CHGA Interactive in Ethiopia made mention of a similar phenomenon in many of Africa’s rural areas. HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality, particularily the death of adults, leads to a disruption of indigenous intergenerationa...
Source: Blogswana - June 22, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

A Continent’s Response Part II: the CHGA Interactive BotswanaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa is meant to do much more than produce a report. The issue we are dealing with is much too urgent. The CHGA Interactive is about bringing out African solutions to the challenges that HIV/AIDS poses for our societies, and about finding ways to implement the solutions quickly. Alan Whiteside, CHGA Commissioner During the two day meeting in Gaborone, Botswana in July of 2004 two issues were identified for discussion: scaling up treatment and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). The report on the meeting notes that there is an opportunity to scale up AIDS ...
Source: Blogswana - June 21, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

A Continent’s Response to an African CatastropheEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Seven years ago South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki referred to the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a “uniquely African catastrophe”. Those affected by the disease in places such as Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Atlanta, etc., might be more inclined to view it as a global catastrophe. For the purpose of this post I’ll be taking a look at an African response to a global catastrophe that has affected the African continent more than any other. The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), headquartered in Addis Adaba, was established in 1958. The ECA’s mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member State...
Source: Blogswana - June 14, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Silent MonstersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussions that center around awareness of PLWA may help to de-stigmatize HIV and reduce discrimination. I’m not sure how the discussion might be raised in America so as to reduce apathy. I like Project Red but I would prefer a greater connection in their ads to the situation in southern Africa. <span class=”technoratitag”>Technorati Tags: <a href=”http://www.technorati.com/tags/CDC_Chatter” rel=”tag”>CDC_Chatter</a>, <a href=”http://www.technorati.com/tags/Ntwakgolo_Support_Group” rel=”tag”>Ntwakgolo_Support_Group</a>, <a...
Source: Blogswana - March 1, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

O Mang, Testing & the KgotlaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Opt-in approach and the Opt-out approach are two common ways of doing voluntary HIV testing. With the Opt-in approach patients are given pre-test counseling and then are given the option of getting an HIV test. With the Opt-out approach nearly all patients are tested for HIV as a part of routine medical visits unless they explicitly refuse. A number of studies, i.e., a report on prenatal HIV testing in the November 15, 2002, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, show that a much greater percentage of patients take part in HIV tests when the Opt-out approach is employed rather than the Opt-in approach. Such an ...
Source: Blogswana - February 19, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

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Source: Blogswana - January 19, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Blogging-for-Others in WikipediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If anyone out there is interested in writing an entry for Wikipedia on blogging-for-others, I would like to encourage you. Of course there is our project, but blogging-for-others takes many forms. Examples I can think of off the top of my head include the Indian AIDS blog Lives in Focus and Mukhtar Mai’s blog, in Urdu. (I have heard that she dictates the blog to others. I can’t swear to that, as I don’t speak Urdu, but it seems quite possible.) Another example is San musician Qani Xiite’s blog, maintained by Delta Dave. The notion of the digital divide is well documented, but the practice of bloggin...
Source: Blogswana - January 9, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Blogging for others blogging_for_others Blogswana digital_divide Wikipedia Africa Source Type: blogs

New Blogswana DomainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As you may have noticed, we are now using the blogswana.org domain for our site. I don’t believe you’ll have to change any bookmarks. It should forward automatically. I also don’t believe you’ll need to change your feed subscription. But it should make it easier to remember and share. Blogswana, nonprofit, website, domain, NGO2.0
Source: Blogswana - December 7, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Promote Blogswana nonprofit website domain NGO2.0 Source Type: blogs

Books for the Botswana BoundEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the last post I mentioned Bessie Head. I wanted to recommend one of her books and a few by a couple of other authors. I read somewhere that the average newspaper is read by a dozen people in Botswana. The same can be said for the copy of The Collector of Treasures that I was able to get my hands on while I was living in Mahalapye. I think that book got passed around amongst more of my friends than anything else I read at that time. I read Whites by Norman Rush while I was living in Yotsukaido, Japan. His Botswana is like Camus’ Algeria - the Batswana, like Camus’ Algerians, are but background character...
Source: Blogswana - December 2, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Village of the Rain-WindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Village and urban life in Botswana share many commonalities. Western dress is the norm in the village and in the city. Men can be observed chatting and walking hand in hand in both the capital city Gaborone and in the village of Serowe. The handshake in which one touches one’s own right forearm while extending the right hand is the same in Francistown and Moshupa. Modern architecture, building techniques, and availability of utilities have however, brought about a contrast in urban and village lifestyles. In Serowe, or as Bessie Head refers to it, Village of the Rain-Wind, one can observe many aspects of villa...
Source: Blogswana - November 24, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

A Step Towards Gender EqualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
30 years age the United Nations established UNIFEM, the UN Development Fund for Women. It was created to provide technical and financial assistance to support innovative activities empowering women in developing countries and to promote gender equality. Recognizing that the funds allocated to UNIFEM, about $40 million this year, were insufficient to bring about significant change in the status of women worldwide, a High-Level Panel on UN reform this past week made the recommendation to the Secretary-General for the creation of a new UN Agency dedicated solely to women. The new agency for women would require an annual ...
Source: Blogswana - November 15, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs

Sokari Wins BOB AwardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Our friend, and Blogswana champion, Sokari, has won the Best of Blogs User Prize for Best Weblog in English. Her blog, Black Looks, is really vibrant. She’s a cliche-busting, loud-mouthed, poetic so-and-so and we dig her. Even when we disagree with her. No. Especially when. She puts her money where her mouth is when she steps up to the plate. She deserves the award. African_Women, Black_Looks, Bobs, blog
Source: Blogswana - November 14, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Hopkins Tags: Sponsors & Partners African_Women Black_Looks Bobs blog Source Type: blogs

HIV/AIDS - Pestilence Within Our LandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following post is from the blog Race, Religion, & Power. Sunday, October 15, 2006 HIV/AIDS - Pestilence Within Our Land By LeVoyd L. Carter, II © 2006 All Rights Reserved http://rrpmedia.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/levoydc For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Matthew 24:7 (KJV) It is with great anxiety that I sit to write this piece. It has been weeks now since I viewed the ABC Primetime news special entitled, “Out of Control: AIDS in Black America. The research fo...
Source: Blogswana - November 13, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Brian Tags: Blogswana Source Type: blogs