In partnership w/ the Government of Rwanda & World Bank, we hosted the Advancing Citizen Engagement (ACE) Project Phase I CloseOut Event.Officials from Ministry of Local Government | Rwanda, LODA | Rwanda ,Mayors of Huye District , Gicumbi District, Gakenke District & @BureraDistrictparticipated in the event. 1/3

Community power in action! Kamatanda Village, Gahunga Sector, Burera District, demonstrates incredible resilience. Through #FCAP, they quadrupled their savings-RwF100 to 400-providing agricultural tools to 140 members, combating idleness & boosting food security. 1/2 LODA | Rwanda

this inverse correlation between strength of marketing and quality of product across politics/companies/ngos is frustratingly high.

ISIS, Al—Qaeda, & Russia are winning in the Sahel, that’s bad news for American security. -> 40% surge in deaths in one year washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

👏to some of my fav humans, Gaya, Madeleine, Lonnie and more who are reshaping how we build the world forward youtu.be/g633KcDSXSY?si… via YouTube

Standing with #Rwanda today on the 31st commemoration of the #Genocide. Standing with Rwanda always for unity and renewal. In a world with deepening divisions and too much violence, let us take a page from Rwanda's book and invest actively in community unity and economic progress

I love paying taxes. Investing in roads, schools, safety. I've lived in countries w/o strong tax base, leaders weren't acct to their ppl. When leaders rely on their ppl for revenue, they answer to them—not to foreign donors and corporates. No taxation without representation cuts

Taxes aren’t just dues. They’re a down payment on our shared future. Let's make some 50 year investments together.

Today is 15 yrs of Spark. One key learning: many supposed trade-offs don't actually exist. Scale versus local ownership? False choice—decentralization _enables_ scale. Community spirit versus excellence? Another myth—collective accountability strengthens our ability to envision

Malawi elections happening today bbc.com/news/articles/…

thrilled about concerns over AI's feeling & pondering the morality of potential robot enslavement. I take it that means we also care deeply about living humans w nervous systems & priority is to abolish human slavery? are AI rights > human rights?

Back in 2005 I wrote a scathing column about a corrupt CEO named Andrew Wiederhorn, but I haven't thought about him much since. Today we have a new New York Times Opinion piece about him: After he got out of prison, he emerged as CEO of another company and, according to DOJ, stole $47

Afghan hunger reaches historic levels: two-thirds of the population face serious or crisis levels of acute malnutrition. incl 4 MILLION Children.

Great week talking about getting $ and decision making to villages. TY Rwanda & World Bank for hosting.

this might just be the best time to invest in global peace.

The new war: "will AI enable more centralized modes of organization, like top-down bureaucracies and totalitarianism, or will it empower more decentralized systems, like markets and civil society?" well written demonstrandom.com/essays/posts/a…

Over 1,000 Kenyans trafficked to fight for Russia in Ukraine, report says reuters.com/world/africa/o…

West Virginia: 60 women running amidst one of the lowest numbers of women legislators in the country. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/03/sur…

Ever question what works in global development? New evidence brief on getting cash and decision making directly to villages and neighborhoods, v compelling & v effective: hdl.handle.net/10568/182189

How to do development better: bridgespan.org/insights/rethi…