Preparation Plan

Africa
- Ethiopia
- Movies: Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland
- Two papers from the 2005 Description and Creativity conference at King's College, Cambridge University: Harri Englund's "Ethnographic description as witnessing: engaging with 'Human Rights' in Malawi," and David Mosse's "Anti-social Anthropology: objectivity, objection and the ethnography of public policy and professional communities."
- "Africa Among Us: Cultures and Writings." Panel discussion at 2003 NYLA Conference.
Pakistan

Interesting People

Bhooshan Pandya, Indian usability analyst
Colleen Taugher, Washington State University Center to Bridge the Digital Divide
Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley
Stephen Lyon, senior lecturer at Durham University
Iginio Gagliardone, research student at the London School of Economics Department of Media and Communications
Marije Geldof, part of the ICT4D collective at the University of London
Sociolingo's Africa
Maria Bezaitis, Director of People and Practices Research Lab within Intel Research
Bruce Hoppe
Global Voices advisors: Akwe Amosu, Dina Mehta