Jackfruity is the blog of Rebekah Heacock, a digital media habitué who writes about technology, aid & development, and how to deflect the romantic attentions of Ugandan public transit employees.
Jackfruity ranks 167 in Africa and 3 in Uganda. According to site visitors it ranks 830, and 899 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 176 and 215 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Frank Mugisha, head of Ugandan GLBT activist group Sexual Minorities Uganda, is speaking in New York City March 22 (details here). Mugisha will be joined by the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopalian Priest from Zambia and author of Globalizing the Culture Wars, a report on how Christian
Two separate tragedies struck Kampala, the capital of Uganda, on Tuesday: students at Makerere University rioted after the shooting death of two of their peers. And the Kasubi Tombs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the burial location of the king of one of Uganda’s largest ethnic groups, burned
As part of the Global Voices Technology for Transparency Network, my fellow researchers and I will be blogging about ICT all over the world. My first post, on a failed ICT for governance project in Sudan and the implications for tech efforts during the upcoming elections, went up
A mudslide in eastern Uganda Monday evening left at least 80 people dead and over 300 missing. The mudslide, triggered by a day of heavy rain, has buried three villages in Bududa district and displaced more than 2000 people from their homes. As of Wednesday morning, the search continues
Eight days ago I found out that I would be attending the 2010 Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Santiago, Chile. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to meet up with the larger GV community again, and I’ve been browsing through old blog posts from the 2008 summit
On Wednesday morning I got the chance to Skype with Mikel Maron and Erica Hagen about Map Kibera, their project to collaboratively map a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The interview was for Global Voices’ Technology for Transparency Network, a project that I’m unspeakably thrilled to be a part
This is the clearest explanation of the full weight of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality bill that I’ve seen. To sum up: there are lots of ways this bill can kill you, even if you’re not gay. Watch:
Just arrived in the inbox (emphasis mine): To: SIPA Student Groups While on patrol this morning Post 15 PSO Patterson noticed three animals in front of Lewisohn Hall. Sgt. Galan responded and spotted one animal and identified it as a coyote. Sgt. Gillis contacted 911 and NYPD responded.
Cliff Stoll (who helped catch a ring of computer hackers/Soviet spies in the 1980s) and Jonathan Zittrain (principle investigator at the OpenNet Initiative) are speaking at Harvard’s Berkman Center tonight. Subject: When Countries Collide Online: Internet Spies, Cyberwar, and Government-sponsored Skullduggery. I’ll be sequestered in the industrial-sized kitchen
Wandering children of Kansas away, By mountain, by desert, or sea, Feasting or fasting, at prayer or at play, Whatever your fortunes may be, Open the doors of your hearts to the breeze,
