Monthly Archives: August 2011

ctrp386 Tracing the Strategic Minerals Route in Congo

ctrp386 Tracing the Strategic Minerals Route in Congo

August 11, 2011

Earlier this year Michael Schaap went to DRCongo as part of the Fairphone fact finding mission. The goal was to better understand how the minerals that make up our technology, our mobile phones, are mined and how they travel from miners up through all the middle people and eventually...

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Observe and Report Brixton

Observe and Report Brixton

August 8, 2011

It is the second day of violence on the streets of London. Seems like something from a novel or a news report from 1979, but this is going on right now in 2011.  I've never been fully in tune with what is happening on the streets there before but...

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Notes on Training in Afghanistan

Notes on Training in Afghanistan

August 6, 2011

"Does it have any impact," a friend recently asked me, "giving video training to different groups in Afghanistan for only 1 week?" If by impact he meant does anything get learned that will be useful to the students now and in the future, then my answer is yes.  In the...

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Jalalabad Video Journal

August 3, 2011

Prior to departing from Jalalabad after completing our work there on behalf of Small World News and Internews Afghanistan, I recorded this video entry to briefly explain what we've been doing.  I also include a few images from the trainings we've been doing as well as a small taste...

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