Job: Director of Communications, ODI

Job: Eastern Africa journalists Association (EAJA) based at Djibouti is seeking for a Program Officer.

Job: Regional Sales Director – Sub Saharran & East Africa, O3b networks

Job: Web Content Coordinator to work on the Forced Migration Online website (Oxford, UK).
See: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?currentvacancies

Kenya job: Database developer, Somalia Food Security and Nutrition Unit (doc): http://www.fsnau.org/fileadmin/uploads/1610.doc

Competition: Journalists encouraged to submit stories about change in the world
Journalists from around the world can submit videos, photos or short stories on what they seek to change in the world, to a contest being organized by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). Deadline: December 4. Stories can be about implementing greener environmental policy, improving education, or any other change. They can be submitted in Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese or Arabic. The top prize is a one-week all expenses paid work placement program at RNW. Other prizes include a digital camera. The judging panel is composed of an international cast of journalists. For more information visit http://sites.rnw.nl/rnwcontest (via International Journalists Network)

Job:

Eurodad seeks Communications Officer

Gaming for good: @Ethanz tries Wired's Somali piracy game

Job: APC Global ICT Policy Advocacy and Networking Coordinator. APC were doing ICT4D before the acronym was born...

Fwd:

The sprawling empire of dgCommunities has relaunched as http://www.Zunia.org on typo3 CMS platform...

Job: MSF Communications Director, Abu Dhabi

Job: Regional coordinator – Middle East and North Africa (SciDev.Net)

Job: Membership and Communications Officer at AlertNet: http://www.alertnet.org/thepeople/jobs/124447574289.htm

Chinese-language newspaper launched in Botswana: http://www.sfnblog.com/launches_closures/2009/06/chinese_language_newspaper_launched_in_b.php (via @kenyapundit)

Acacia tree new to science found in Ogaden (FT)

Perhaps not quite the Elgin Marbles, but the British return Nuer artifacts to Sudan this week: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30961

RT @mc_sunw #swineflu We live in the end of days: it's the aporkalypse.

UC Berkeley Fellowships for African Journalists: http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/press/african_journalists/

Games for Change: http://www.gamesforchange.org/ 

Towards a taxonomy of "Serious Games": http://www.businessandgames.com/blog/2009/04/tribalization_socialized_tv_ga.html

Extract:

"YOUR INTENTION WITH YOUR GAME IS TO:

1. raise AWARENESS of issues
2. train MOTOR functions
3. develop SOCIAL skills
4. develop sudden onset CRISES response skills
5. develop HUMAN CAPITAL and workforce
6. improve MIND & BODY
7. develop BUSINESS prowess
8. improve ORGANIZATIONAL management
9. improve CREATIVITY
10. impart KNOWLEDGE"

Nice work if you can get it. Kenya's Safaricom charges 10% interest (sorry, fee) for 3 days of credit for mobile top ups...

Job: Communications Officer, ICG:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6027&l=1

Job:

ISDR/G/03/2009

L-5

Head of Regional Office – Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

12 April 2009

Shooting mosquitoes with a laser (WSJ, via War and Health): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html

Has Dubai banned unmarrieds holding hands or not? (Al Arabiya) http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/03/14/68405.html

"There is no problem in the world too complex that it cannot be addressed by the emotionalised, platitudinous pronunciations of an entertainer".

Economist covers serious games/social gaming: http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13174355

Save #Darfur. By gaming Digg? Did donors to a "Darfur Foundation" really want their money spent on artifically increasing a ranking on digg.com? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/03/usocial-digg.html

Jobs: ISS editorial jobs

Fwd:

Philanthropy and new business devt now headed by the same person at Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/next-chapter-for-googleorg.html

Kenya commissions: "We are declaring the collapse of the GTV a national disaster, and are naming a 40 member team to investigate this matter."

Independent report card on Kenya's coalition published: http://www.dialoguekenya.org 

1 shisha session = 100 cigarettes

Job: UNICEF Communication Officer, Kenya (deadline 12 Jan 2009) 

More humanitarian games: Is this the first one that is not free?

"In the Netherlands, The Red Cross Game encourages online players to engage with a number of virtual public health and safety crises involving first an earthquake in Argentina and then conflict and dislocation in war-torn Zimbabwe.  Players who finish these teaser games and want to tackle the next task, a flood in Mexico, need to pay $19.95 to purchase the full version of the game, which functions as both an exercise in consciousness-raising and a fund-raising maneuver.  The game was created by I Sioux for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." (from Osocio )

Contest: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project

Advocacy/activist game with a message: "Raid Gaza!" http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/476393 

Social games: UNHCR gets into the gaming space with "Against All Odds" as does a UN initiative on natural disasters, the ISDR. (Tips: AlertNet)

Jobs: Editor, the Life and Peace Horn of Africa Bulletin