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Citizen Generated Data vs. Official Statistics

Should Citizen Generated Data be official? If not, does it make it any less essential? There is a tension that has existed in the past few years about the co-existence of official statistics on the one hand and citizen generated data on the other. The development ...

Stop Crying (Spoken Word)

https://soundcloud.com/al-kags/stop-crying-spoken-word Listen here to the words. I gotta stop crying. Stop moaning about this sordid route that my life has taken, root out the cause of the course of the miasma that is this life. This life. My life. I gotta stop crying. Stop whining about the wheeney, ...

The bespoke business: why they should succeed

bespoke/bɪˈspəʊk/ . adjectiveBRITISH adjective: bespokemade for a particular customer or user. "a bespoke suit" Let me tell you something about me. I am a decidedly big bespoke customer. I like all of my services to be tailor-made to me. I will not for example go to ...

Examining the cracks in my house

"How Tullow hurt me" - Cheptoo's Story as close to verbatim as possible (translated) Cheptoo's house was cracked when Tullow Oil started drilling. This is his story. "A few years ago, my neighbours and I were called to a meeting by the chief to meet with an ...

2019 – What’s new – Part II

I started this conversation last week and as I mentioned to you, too many thoughts are banging about my mind for me to be sensible. Perhaps as they become clearer, I will write about them. Two things are clear to me today. First, in 2019, ...

2019. What’s new?

The year is 2019 and I have taken a long vacation - the longest in a while. I am just getting back to work and life today and I have many thoughts that are banging about my head - with no specific thread. I was ...