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