Aid agencies 'must use new tools'

An article from BBC, By Jason Palmer.

The UN Foundation/Vodafone Foundation Partnership report outlines examples of new technologies that mitigate conflicts and save lives worldwide. The "crowd-sourced" data that comes from victims of natural disasters and conflicts is now a crucial part in disaster management, says a new report.

Jepson School of Leadership Studies: Dambisa Moyo on her book Dead Aid

look at this video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4a-FZjPreg
Economist Dambisa Moyo, named one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world for 2009, discusses her book Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. In her point of view, we have to encourage trade and developement by other ways than classical aid. This is not the first time we are publishing an interview from Moyo... even if she is a bit controversial, we can learn a lot about alternative ways to understand foreign aid. She is on the video at University of Richmond on November 16.

Is Aid Responsible for Africa's Poverty? Moyo vs Naidoo

You probably knows the famous theory by Dambisa Moyo on the "dead Aid"… here is a video posted this week on a debate between Moyo and Naido, partisan of "more aid".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvEW_et7zs