The INFO Project Blog

A recent article our fellow Program Specialist Sara Mazursky found when searching for news for the upcoming Pop Reporter e-zine struck her attention.   Apparently, due in part to a declining population, Buddhist groups in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir (see map) have called for an immediate halt to family planning. Read the rest of this entry »

Photoshare manager/maestro David Alexander just announced the winning images for the 2007 contest.  

A striking black and white image of a Filipino farmer set against a background of rice fields won 1st Place/Best of Show at the 5th Annual Photoshare Photo Contest. Sam De Leon submitted the winning photo in the competition sponsored by The INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP).

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Tostan’s latest news alert reveals a growing movement for health and human rights in West Africa. All 909 communities in Tambacounda in Southeastern Senegal have declared their abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) and child /forced marriage.

At an event on Sunday, January 14th, 4,000 community members and leaders gathered to declare “From today forward, this practice no longer has a place in our communities.” Read the rest of this entry »

Drs. Julie Ferguson from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam emailed the KM4Dev Listserv today with the following survey announcement.

I am conducting research on knowledge management in development organizations (after a number of years as a knowledge management for development practitioner at among others IICD and Hivos). In this context, I would like to make a quick inventory of development networks (or ‘communities of practice’).

Click here to take the survey.

Findings will be posted on The Giraffe, a blog dedicated to exploring the use of knowledge in development-focused organizations, and circulated throughout the KM4Dev community.

In this IBN Live news segment highlighting the viral popularity of the so-called “Andhra condom song,” a New Delhi correspondent expresses hope that the exuberant South Indian-style marketing campaign for contraception is doing some good. The video on YouTube has been viewed over 600,000 times, and has received comments from users from all over the world, one who expressed surprise that they “had condoms in india.”