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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

Beyond Niamey, 2019-2022

Beyond NiameyOutlinks to posts on the Beyond Niamey blog. This is the fifth set, 2019-2020:

2019

  • Writing Bambara wrong & a petition to VOA, Jan. 6, 2019
  • IMLD 2019 & IYIL 2019 in Africa, Feb. 21, 2019
  • A life lesson in Fulfulde & the internal voices of a multilingual, July 5, 2019
  • African Regional Meeting for IYIL2019, July 30, 2019
  • African languages as indigenous languages: Definitions, Aug. 19, 2019
  • African languages as indigenous languages: Examples, Aug. 20, 2019
  • Yahoogroups & African languages, Oct. 31, 2019
  • Yahoogroups & African languages, follow-up, Dec. 16, 2019
  • AfricaNLP2020 (Addis Ababa, 26-4-20) & related items, Dec. 28, 2019

2020

  • IMLD 2020: “Languages without borders”, Feb. 21, 2020
  • A sabbatical, of sorts, Dec. 31, 2020

2021

  • IMLD 2021: What multilingualism means for inclusion, Feb. 21, 2020
  • On the eve of IDIL, some reflection, Dec. 31, 2020

2022


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