Welcome to the latest Twitter Trawl! We trawl twitter to bring you the best of the tweets that are relevant for the communication for development sector. This is the full fat version – a briefer ‘highlights’ newsletter is distributed weekly to full members.
Think we’re missing something? Tweet @C4D_Network and let us know!
C4D EVENTS
@CIMA_Media CIMA Event June 19th – Supporting the Fourth Estate: What’s been done to support independent media. Featuring Dr. Mary Myers, Brian Joseph from @NEDemocracy, and @samanthajcuster from @AidData RSVP now! #mediadev #NEDevents #pressfreedom
@onewm Join the BFI for the Displaced in Media conference this Thurs 14 June and engage in conversations between refugees and media organisations across Europe. For more details and to RSVP contact [email protected]
C4D OPPORTUNITIES
@YPLearning Register now for our upcoming webinar on 6/13, “Strategies for Engaging Youth Refugees: Lessons from Niger”: https://bit.ly/2sIJ7yZ
PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES
@povmumbai Unwanted calls are the tip of the iceberg of threats faced by women using mobiles. For a nuanced perspective on threats & their impact on behavioral and socioeconomic level, check out @GSMA’s full report, which we contributed to, here: https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/A-framework-to-understand-women%E2%80%99s-mobile-report_march.pdf … Highlights in thread
@C4D_Network New @FarmRadioMw project brief ‘Her Farm #Radio: Building knowledge and developing the capacity of #Malawi’s female farmers on forest landscape restoration’ https://bit.ly/2sLKtcc #gender #engagement
@farmradio Communicating science for impact: How to use radio to reach farmers with research results. Read our report http://bit.ly/2LnBEMA #ict4d #ag4dev #research #innovation #GlobalGoals #ZeroHunger pic.twitter.com/LB63ie96QP
ICT4D & INNOVATION
@PracticalAction This is super exciting! A new digital mapping tool helps people to understand risks, prepare for #floods and protect themselves – bringing local knowledge to a global scale! Find out more: https://practicalaction.org/blog/news/campaigns/collaborative-mapping-creating-local-flood-resilience-with-global-impact/ … #ICT4D
@fortuny How to measure digital interventions in development https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-how-to-measure-digital-interventions-in-development-92472 … #ict4d via @devex
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
@GSMAAfrica Watch our webinar where we shared our learnings on the implementation of the mNutrition Initiative and #mHealth service design and results on improved nutrition behaviours among #mHealth service users across 8 #SSA markets #SDG2 #SDG3 https://bit.ly/2sFAS6M
HUMANITARIAN
@ALNAP In light of the recent #ebola outbreak in #DRC, @oxfamgbpolicy have shared lessons learned from their community engagement response during the 2014-15 outbreak in #SierraLeone and #Liberia https://buff.ly/2xYHT7K
@CDACN Medical evidence and experience is up against a minority of pastors and healers who claim to be able to cure #Ebola read more about the importance of correct information provision here https://bit.ly/2HxspqO in #DRC #irinnews #commisaid
@Serena140887 #Communication is crucial for a successful #postdisaster #recovery. What do we know about #comms needs of people? see more on https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-016-2550-3 … #CwC #CommIsAid
OPINIONS AND ANALYSIS
@aidnography NEW #globaldev & #ICT4D LINKS feat @gyude_moore @kiwanja @paulcurrion @tressiemcphd @farai & more! http://aidnography.blogspot.com/2018/06/development-ict4d-digital-communication-academia-link-review-285.html …
@Research2Action “By turning research into an illustrated abstract it’s possible to make academic work more accessible to a non-technical audience and people outside of the discipline” via @LSEImpactBlog https://t.co/ww8gtb7h2b
OTHER INTERESTING THINGS
@socialmedia4D Ellen DeGeneres is the Latest White Celebrity to Take a Picture With Smiling ‘African’ Children http://www.okayafrica.com/ellen-degeneres-white-celebrity-picture-with-smiling-african-children-white-savior-poverty-porn-kenya-rwanda/ … #devpix #povertyporn
@IDS_UK A great read for the weekend – Inclusive Urban Development in South Africa: What Does It Mean and How Can It Be Measured? #WeekendReading #SouthAfrica #UrbanDevelopment https://t.co/NF301smXKc
@forfreemedia “The time is not to look inwards, but to engage globally,” says Executive Director Jesper Højberg in this year’s IMS Annual Report 2017-2018 https://bit.ly/2l2lq0x #