Botswana's Elections and the Use of Social Media
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Global Voices Online is reporting how social media is playing a role in the latest parliamentary and council elections in Botswana.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: The essential points from Why Nations Fail
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Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty?
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Nata Village Blog
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Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa. Readers can donate directly to the village through the blog's PayPal account. According to the blog, 50% of the pregnant women in the village are HIV positive and 400 children have been orphaned by AIDS.
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