Human Rights Based Approach to Development

This post on Librarians and Human Rights blog caught my eye. It reminds me of conversations I’ve had with folks who are working in economic or health development, and who didn’t agree with the priority I was giving to education and access to information in human development. They looked at Maslow’s heirarchy of [...]

Community Asset Mapping

I’ve been reading Sondra Cuban’s Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library and came across a section on community and cultural asset mapping. Long used in the development field as a community building tool, it identifies the strengths in a community by mapping its assets in terms of people, things, services, and resources. [...]

Healthy minds … knowledge is power … format is power

I recently attended a conference in Tucson on health information which you can read about at BlogJunction.
I’ve been thinking about format lately. What is the best way to share information? Stories are an important vehicle for knowledge transmission – sometimes there is more to learn from a story than from a bulleted list [...]