‘MSF: Court orders aid group to repay ransom for humanitarian worker’

August 1, 2008

Just so you don’t think I am an MSF lackey, here is an article from the Guardian about the the Swiss supreme court ruling that MSF must repay the Dutch government one quarter (250,000 Euros) of the ransom that was paid for the release of Arjan Erkel, an MSF volunteer that was kidnapped in 2002 […]

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NeoReader – A new 2D barcode reader App for Apple’s iPhone

July 31, 2008

streetstylz just wrote to let us know that the NeoReader is now available for Apple’s iPhone.  I just checked the iTunes store and sure enough, if you search for NeoReader, it pops right up.  I have yet to take it for a test run but my guess is that it works just fine.  Yahoo has […]

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Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders promo video

July 31, 2008

On the lighter (and less snarky) side here is a MSF promo video that I pulled off YouTube.  A lot of people ask me, “What the hell do you do out there?”.  I hope this video helps to answer that question. It is simple, clean and, yes, it too probably cost a lot to produce.  […]

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GSM, BGAN, etc, etc

July 31, 2008

Ok, strike me with lightening if I am wrong but this one just smacks of ‘been there, done that’.  The mobile news sites have been lighting up with this story.  WISECOM, a group that I have never heard of (which doesn’t mean a thing) has come out with a GSM/BGAN/DVB-RCS/etc system that can connect everyone […]

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Ethiopia before mobile phones

July 31, 2008

In 2001 I was offered and assignment in Ethiopia to work with Doctors Without Borders building a TB clinic.  I was sent to one of the hottest places on earth – the Danakil Desert in the Rift Valley of north-eastern Ethiopia.  The region is home to the Afar who are an extremely tough nomadic tribe.  […]

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‘Where Serbs meet the new Kosovo’

July 30, 2008

The BBC has an article on the Serbian enclave of Strpce in the southern part of Kosovo: By Patrick Jackson BBC News, Strpce, Kosovo Virtually all Kosovo’s remaining Serbs still consider it an inalienable part of Serbia but many are having to compromise with the new independent state declared by the Albanian majority in February. […]

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What do you want to see more of at Aid Worker Daily?

July 30, 2008

Folks, help me out here.  It is time to let me know what you want.  Believe me, I can blather on incessantly until the cows come home but I want to make sure I am giving y’all what you want.  I appreciate the fact that you have enjoyed what I have had to say so […]

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humanitarian.info

July 30, 2008

There is a guy out there by the name of Paul Currion who has been evangelizing this stuff a lot longer than I have. Paul has been writing over at humanitarian.info for quite some time and knows more people than I will ever meet. He is an encyclopedia of humanitarian information and you can find […]

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‘400 million Google Earth users. Really?’

July 30, 2008

A very nice reality check by Stefan Geens over at Ogle Earth.  My favorite? “..a whole lot of people sucking Earth through a 56kbps straw.”  Never a truer word. “In his Geoweb 2008 keynote speech, Michael Jones mentioned that among the 1 billion online, there are “400 million Google Earth users”, and that this “constituency” […]

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Why Apple’s worldwide iPhone roll out is so important

July 29, 2008

Last week I was speaking to a friend in Croatia and he was thrilled that he could soon wander down to the local Hrvatski Telekom store and pick up an iPhone 3G.  Until now most iPhones in eastern Europe sold for ridiculous sums a Russian friend was quoting me astronomical prices for unlocked phones in […]

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