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

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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