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    • Beyond Niamey
      • Beyond Niamey, 2004-10
      • Beyond Niamey, 2013-14
      • Beyond Niamey, 2015-16
      • Beyond Niamey, 2017-2018
      • Beyond Niamey, 2019-2022
    • LinkedIn articles & posts
      • LinkedIn 2014-16
        • [LI] Ebola messaging in West African languages
        • [LI] More on ebola messaging in West African languages
        • [LI] “Translating Hope” and ebola messaging in African languages
        • [LI] Ebola messaging in African languages – taking stock and looking ahead
        • [LI] Sapir-Whorf in our millet? Vocabulary & food diversity
        • [LI] Back to the job-market-of-the-future
        • [LI] Multilingual extension in Africa: Analysis & models
        • [LI] LinkedIn + Microsoft = ½(good thing) ?
        • [LI] The staggering numbers of recruiting & job seeking
      • LinkedIn 2017-Jan-Jun
        • [LI] Democracy’s “wins”​ depend on how well electoral systems work
        • [LI] AI, recruiting & job seeking
        • [LI] Questions re AI, data, & jobs
        • [LI] What if your resume “kept on file”​ didn’t just sit there?
        • [LI] CVs & cover letters need automation; job sites do AI
        • [LI] AI & the future of work, jobs, income & wealth
        • [LI] Towards AI for job seekers?
        • [LI] Useless job interviews; recruiters’ tools converse
        • [LI] Bots, chatbots, & job applications
        • [LI] Some thoughts on AI, intelligent agents, & transformation of the job market
        • [LI] Could bots do salary negotiations better than we do?
        • [LI] An employment “filter bubble”?
      • LinkedIn 2017-Jul-Dec
        • [LI] Other people’s job algorithms – is this a path we want to follow?
        • [LI] Future of the job search & whose AI will change it
        • [LI] Early use of algorithms for hiring
        • [LI] The near future of job hunting
        • [LI] Algorithms behaving badly
        • [LI] AI’s languages; swarming bots
        • [LI] Investing in translation; diverse approaches to problems
        • [LI] African languages & mobile phones
        • [LI] Nature of the job market & future of jobs
        • [LI] Terminology relating to transcription & translation
        • [LI] Jobs as problem; work as broken; jobs not as work
        • [LI] Sociolinguistics of development & girls’ education in Africa
        • [LI] Limits of leadership; dangers of charisma; impossible job
        • [LI] AI, HR, recruitment & the individual
        • [LI] Whither resumes? (4 items)
      • LinkedIn 2018-Jan-Jun
        • [LI] The problem with “get them to…”
        • [LI] Four categories of “work” in Japanese & “ikigai”
        • [LI] “Work” & “jobs” in English; kinds of “work” in Japanese
        • [LI] Pay transparency; work only for money
        • [LI] AI for HR (2 items)
        • [LI] Farmers “prisoners” to tech; “democratize” AI
        • [LI] A gentle critique & constructive misuse of the “ikigai” meme
        • [LI] “TurboResume”?; the salary history question
        • [LI] A 4-sphere Venn?; mythical retention data graphic
        • [LI] One emergent AI property; 7 expected AI advances
        • [LI] A shorter job-day; reconceptualizing types of work
      • LinkedIn 2018-Jul-Dec
        • [LI] Abandoned job applications; time lost on completed applications
        • [LI] Power, productivity, & wealth (2 items)
        • [LI] Self-driving possibilities; AI limitations
        • [LI] Key-person risk (2 items)
        • [LI] “Crap sandwich” ; “too collaborative”?
        • [LI] Physiological reactions to IVR & voice AI?
        • [LI] Helping whistleblowers ; anti-corruption
        • [LI] North of ikigai: Skilled, motivated, needed, and unpaid
      • LinkedIn 2019-Jan-Jul
        • [LI] West of ikigai: Skilled, motivated, & paid, but not needed?
        • [LI] Rejoinder re wood energy; potential for desalination
        • [LI] 3rd phase of clean energy; biomass as risky business
        • [LI] Decoupling income from “traditional work”​? Maybe it’s bigger than that
        • [LI] East of ikigai: Motivated, needed, & paid, but not skilled
        • [LI] AI & power; AI & BS
        • [LI] Peter Principle revisited; If your boss could do your job
        • [LI] Two meanings of “work” (3 items)
        • [LI] Shorter job-days or shorter job-weeks
      • LinkedIn 2019-Aug-Dec
        • [LI] IYIL 2019 launched; Adlam & Latin
        • [LI] African languages as indigenous languages?
        • [LI] Recruitment in 10 years; Automation & recruitment
        • [LI] Workers & automation – need laws, hate algorithms (2 items)
        • [LI] Matching skills & positions; AI copywriter
        • [LI] ICT4D Non-Conf.; Eradication of poverty
        • [LI] Robots shouldn’t look like us; Why gender voice assistants?
        • [LI] A 5- or 6-hour jobday (& why not “workday”)
        • [LI] Trekonomics; innovation without pay; economic value
        • [LI] AI vs AI; using biological data for better storytelling
      • LinkedIn 2020
        • [LI] AI job interviews (3 items)
        • [LI] 3- & 4-circle “purpose” Venns (2 items)
        • [LI] Power, brain damage, incompetence & the “cult of the tech founder”
        • [LI] Abandoned ag land; tree species in reforestation
        • [LI] Multitasking; productivity in office spaces; motivation
        • [LI] Languages & UBI; lang tech in Africa; MT; missing words
        • [LI] Blame for climate crisis; Britain & “zero-carbon”
    • Facebook posts
      • [FB] IMLD 2016
      • [FB] “Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m a local”
      • [FB] “Could the dominance of English harm global scholarship?”
      • [FB] “The Power of Positive Losing”
      • [FB] Paper: President has constitutional power to appoint, not just nominate, successor to Scalia
      • [FB] Maskal Teff- The Teff Company
      • [FB] Geologic impacts of rising sea levels
      • [FB] “Multilinguals Experience Personality Change When Using Different Languages”
      • [FB] Terms for limiting meat consumption in one’s diet
      • [FB] End (extremes of wealth &) poverty
      • [FB] Keep the anti-corruption rule
      • [FB] Vetting world leaders
      • [FB] “Can We Have Our Forests and Burn Them Too?”
      • [FB] Heads up on GMO “Arctic” apple
      • [FB] “Green Beer and Rank Hypocrisy”
      • United forcibly removing a passenger
      • [FB] “Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too”
      • [FB] Voting on health care bill without a CBO score
      • [FB] Lack of bicycle parking in Falls Church area
agriculture/food, language

IYOM2023 in Spanish: ¿Los mijos?

January 30, 2022 Don Leave a comment

3rd in series on translation & the International Year of Millets

The Spanish version of the name of the planned 2023 International Year of Millets (IYOM) in the UN General Assembly resolution uses the singular: Año Internacional del Mijo instead of …

IYOMmillets
agriculture/food, language

IYOM2023 in French: Mils et/ou millets?

January 22, 2022 Don 1 Comment

2nd in series on translation & the International Year of Millets

The French version of the name of the planned 2023 International Year of Millets (IYOM) in the UN General Assembly resolution is Année internationale du mil. Interestingly, a 2019 …

IYOMmilletstranslation
agriculture/food, language

Translation problems ahead of the International Year of Millets (IYOM2023)?

January 21, 2022 Don 2 Comments
Diversity of millets. Clockwise from top left: Finger plant, grain; logo; foxtail grain, plant; pearl grain, plant; display; proso plant, grain.

On 3 March 2021, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution proposed by India and fifty-one other countries, with …

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agriculture/food, development, language

Seven International Years & two decades

December 31, 2021 Don Leave a comment

As we close out the year 2021, I’d like to catch up and look ahead at a number of UN calendar observances. Seven of those are International Years: 4 that are coming to a close; 2 that will begin next …

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agriculture/food, NRM/environment

International Year of Plant Health, 2020+

May 31, 2021 Don Leave a comment

Almost overlooked in a time when the COVID-19 pandemic began to threaten human health and life around the planet was the 2020 International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). Here’s a quick catch-up about this important observance, which has been “extended …

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policy/planning, roads/streets

2020: A Year of Bicycling Backwards

December 31, 2020 Don Leave a comment

The corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic has had many devastating impacts, from death or long-term health issues for too many, to economic hardship, as well as some supposedly “silver lining” effects. Among the latter, one was an observed trend in a …

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