Crowdsourcing! Big Data! International Development! A recent Washington Post article on future U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities in Afghanistan piqued many of my interests. According to the article, after coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan next year, only 20 percent of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects worth billions of dollars will be in areas safe enough for U.S. officials to visit and … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Taking a Break from Blogging
October 2, 2013 by
As many readers of this blog may have noticed, I am taking a break for a while. There are two reasons for this. I've been really busy—work and family comes before blogging (and the level of social media engagement necessary to promote a blog). More importantly, however, it's time to adjust eVentures in Cyberland's focus. Many of the things I started blogging about back in 2009, such as social media messages going viral, are hardly news any more. Other emerging … [Read more...]
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