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[imsamwg-wangrueiyi]

［ 木曜日 NLP murmur ] 你的強項是什麼呢？ 不是你「以為」， 是「別人」以為⋯ 我們都以為自己很了解自己， 那是真的嗎？ 你可以問問你身邊的人， 你的強項是什麼？ 也可以問問自己， 看看你能很快得到答案？ 而你的一些答案， 與別人回饋的答案， 是一樣的嗎？ 1. 到目前為止，哪項工作是你覺得做最好最有成就的？ 2. 工作最讓你覺得感謝與開心的部分是什麼？ 3. 從小到現在，最熱衷與擅長的是什麼？ 4. 小時候的志願是？現在還在路上嗎？ 5. 就算無償甚至花錢，你都會想做的工作是什麼？ 6. 過去的失敗與成功經歷是什麼？ 7. 別人不擅長，但你很厲害的是什麼？ 8.別人很厲害，但你再怎麼努力也做不好的是什麼？ 9. 你的完美客戶，願意花錢買你的產品或服務的重要理由是什麼？ 真正的強項其實潛藏在你的生活中⋯ 自我感覺良好不代表真正的強項。 透過三步驟： 反思、修正、行動， 就能更了解， 自己是怎樣的存在， 建立屬於你的獲利模式。 #山姆王身心系統 #nlp #hypnosis #彼得杜拉克 #自我認同矩陣 #identidadevisual #identitymatrix #nlpmasterpractitioner #nlppractitioner #hypnosishealers #businessmodelyou #businessmodelgeneration https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce2_KibO8lB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ifeelbetterer]

Your dog is an A++ 12/10 dog, the best 👌 👌 👌. Tell them I love them and their Fish.

I have told her and she is glad and loves you too, but not nearly as much as she loves Fish. 

[matematickcom]

Matrices - Part 4🤖

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#math #mathematics #maths #geometry #algebra #calculus #matrices #matrix #division #elearning #science #inverse #identitymatrix

[portraitofastarman]

it just started thundering rlly loud outside and im just tring to do math summer school on zoom :(

[khalilhumam]

Digital rights in Africa is still far from the internet freedom we desire

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Digital rights in Africa is still far from the internet freedom we desire

What’s the future of digital rights in Africa?

Some sub-Saharan African contributors during the Global Voices 2017 Summit in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Image by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia, December 3, 2017 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI), on September 28, is an annual reminder of the rights of every person to access information, initiated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).  This is particularly important in Africa, where digital access to information is characterized by excessive taxation, digital shutdowns and jailing of activists. 

READ MORE: Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa’s new internet paradigm

In addition, the dreadful landscape for online freedom and digital rights on the continent has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The #COVID19 pandemic has lent itself to surveillance systems. For many in Africa, even when the disease toll is declining, gov'ts have exploited the public health crisis with institutionalized and permanent actions that further entrench their power. #FIFAfrica20 #DigitalRights https://t.co/5epJI4L0gr — Avalanche (@valanchee) September 29, 2020

In the light of the above, some sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Global Voices (GV) contributors recently discussed the future of internet freedom as part of their contribution to the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2020 (#FIFAfrica20), organized by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA).   In short videos compiled by Faaris Adam (Somalia), eight contributors from six African countries expressed their views: Adéṣinà Ayeni  (Nigeria), Adetomiwa Isiaka (Nigeria), Baraka Providence (Democratic Republic of Congo), Daniel Ekonde (Cameroon), James Propa (Uganda) Khattab Hamad (Sudan) Mark Neywon Mengonfia (Liberia) and Nwachukwu Egbunike (GV Community Manager for SSA). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ77Y-WoGs] The GV SSA reporters identified seven issues that will likely shape the future of internet freedom and digital rights in Africa. 

Dismal internet penetration in Africa

As of March this year, Africa’s 527 million internet users are like a drop in the ocean of about 5.8 billion global users. The 39 percent internet penetration in Africa lags behind the 59 percent global average and 63 percent with the rest of the world, according to the Internet World Stats.   Hence a country like Liberia, with a population of 4.5 million, boasts of a paltry 624,610 internet users and a low internet penetration of 12.3 percent. Consequently, both the “Liberian government and the African Union” need to assiduously work in getting the internet “to far-flung places,” opines Mark Neywon Mengonfia.

Digital blackouts

In 2007, Guinea became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to switch off the internet during protests against former president Lansana Conté.  Since then, digital blackouts in Africa have become the norm during political upheavals or uncertainties. 

READ MORE: The day Liberia shut down freedom of expression amid a mass protest

Daniel Ekonde, of Cameroon, asserts that African governments are increasingly tightening their grip on the internet. Hence, a digital milieu free from “government interference or surveillance or the emasculation of rights of various African netizens,” is becoming slimmer by the day, Nwachukwu Egbunike, of Nigeria, thinks.  For instance, there are “repeated interruptions of the internet whenever there are protests” in Ethiopia. The same occurs in “Cameroon wherein the internet is manipulated when protests are announced,” said Ekonde. Nonetheless, Khattab Hamad of Sudan believes that it is still possible to “imagine a future in Africa with no internet shutdowns and digital rights violations.” However, this depends on three factors, according to Hamad, that will make future digital blackouts a hard call: 

First, a law that enshrines network neutrality so that the internet remains free and open, including during political crises; second, a law that criminalizes the denial of internet access; and third, a law to prevent violations of users’ privacy and personal data.

READ MORE: Internet shutdowns in Sudan: The story behind the numbers and statistics

Legislation to promote digital rights in Africa

Legislation should not only curtail internet shutdowns but rather promote digital rights.  James Propa of Uganda envisages a future where “communication, education and digital platforms” in Africa are not “heavily taxed or priced,” hence, preventing “so many young people from using these platforms.” This runs contrary to the prevailing situation in the continent where “we have legislation that only supports the leaders to stay longer in power or to enrich themselves or for their own personal benefits,” asserts Propa.   In addition, these laws should be proactive. Adetomiwa Isiaka, of Nigeria, proposes constitutional provisions that guarantee that “digital rights” are granted universal accessibility like “educational rights, that is free and accessible.” This can be achieved by making digital access “compulsory for everyone in the country,” Isiaka assets. 

READ MORE: Satirical comedy skit lands four Ugandan comedians in jail

Digital inclusion of African languages

A cross-section of GV SSA contributors at the 2012 Global Voices Citizen Media Summit, Nairobi, Kenya. Image by www.viajesyrelatos.com, July 3, 2012, (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Swahili — one of the African Union’s official languages — is the most widely spoken language in the continent. Similarly, Yorùbá has 30 million speakers in southwestern Nigeria, and in the neighboring West African countries.  However, Swahili and Yorùbá, like most African languages, are not only relegated to the rear on the internet but are invisible in digital spaces.

READ MORE: #IdentityMatrix: African languages and digital rights 

Consequently, Adéṣinà Ayeni of Nigeria wants a truly “multilingual” internet that is “accessible in African languages.” He believes it is his right to write his name “in the Yorùbá language with the diacritics, which are the tonal markings.” But he cannot do so because this message: “Error, characters are not recognized” keeps popping up. This “should not be so,” Ayeni laments.

Harmful content online: Dual responsibility of netizens and tech firms 

Harmful content like mis- and disinformation or ethnic hate speech are increasingly weaponized in digital platforms to silence critics or marginalize dissenting voices. 

READ MORE: The identity matrix: Platform regulation of online threats to expression in Africa

Ekonde argues that netizens should be more “responsible” about the content they share on digital platforms and refrain form “hate speech, targeting people on social media and also fake news.” This, according to Ekonde, will greatly “improve” digital rights in the continent.  In addition, technology firms and platforms have to moderate harmful online behaviors like cyberbullying and trolling, which usually go unreported in minority languages.   Egbunike thinks that tech firms should “actually take full responsibility of moderating content” rather than the prevailing scenario of “paying lip service to issues arising from their digital platforms within the various countries in the continent.” 

READ MORE: Moderate globally, impact locally: A series on content moderation in the Global South

Respect for digital rights

Despite all the odds, Baraka Providence, of DR Congo, asserts that Africa is moving toward digitalization that promises a bright future for internet freedom and digital rights.  Nonetheless, Providence insists that Africa’s digital transformation has to be “humancentric” by shrinking the prevailing “inequality among people.” This will be achieved by ensuring that technological policies do not morph into “barriers against access, accessibility and inclusion of minorities.”  But more importantly, the technological transformation of the continent can never be achieved at the “expense of digital rights,” warns Providence.

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike

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Recap on the #IdentityMatrix Twitter converstion on African languages and digital rights

Recap on the #IdentityMatrix Twitter converstion on African languages and digital rights

The conversations asked how challenges to net neutrality undermined digital content in African languages; the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation in African languages on different digital channels and what corporations or civil society are doing about it; the consequences of a lack of reliable internet access in places where significant populations of African-speaking speakers…

[thesporkidentity]

identitymatrix replied to your post: Aaaaa? AAAAAAAAAA! I don’t know if this counts as...

Dude. Dude I feeeeel u. TMI stop reading: I currently have half a toenail on each foot. Stubbed my toes enough that the original nail died, then a new nail started growing under it. Got fed up with the dead ones and took em off, now have a wierd half hybrid nail hopefully growing back right. I FEEL YOU.

like yeah i’m pretty sure that’s what happened with mine too and it sucks *high five* like on one hand wow isn’t the human body incredible that it just regenerates these things but on the other hand every part of this process is horrifyingly disgusting why oh god why

[insomnova]

Hey! Just wondering, you mentioned a rebroadcast of critical role, and I wanna get in on that. I always miss the thursday stream, but I didn't know they rebroadcasted it later! When/where can I find that, for future reference? Thanks so much!! (p.s. love all your art!)

the thursday rebroadcast happens right after the live show ends! 

if you’re a subscriber to geek and sundry’s twitch channel i’m pretty sure you can watch the VOD right after the end of the live broadcast??? not sure abt the specifics tbh but you can watch it whenever u want

if you’re like me and aren’t subscribed to their twitch channel you have to wait for the following monday for geek and sundry to upload it onto their website :D

and ty i’m glad u enjoy my doodles!!! ^-^

[insomnova]

I'm so goddamn glad you're into rottmnt now. That's the good shit 👌 gimme them turtle Bros being SASsy but also LOVING BROTHERS in a GOOD SIBLING RELATIONSHIP.

i’ve ALWAYS been into tmnt content and this is just the next in a long line of teen turtle yellin ^_^

[thesporkidentity]

identitymatrix answered your question: springtoons replied to your post “Okay I’m not...

I haven’t seen Yuuri On Ice, but from a quick google search it seems like it does a bit more than other anime that IS just queerbaiting and fanservice. But, the anime isn’t labelled as shonen ai or yaoi, so my answer is *shrug* could still be baiting

Good to know. I’ll just approach it business as usual then assuming it’s baiting, and if it does happen I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Thank you. :)

[thesporkidentity]

identitymatrix answered your question: Okay at this point I’m starting to wonder if I...

Here’s a good summary i found for the theory! autumn-sweet-fae.tumblr…

Thank you! Like I knew he was like at least part Arusian in the original Voltron so the whole alien thing I could follow, but I was lost as to why everyone had seemed to settle on Galran as his new alien race.

[thesporkidentity]

identitymatrix replied to your post:I just read Hufflepuff as like a french alias like...

Personally the pronunciation that got stuck for me was reading it like it was some sort of French courtesan - Huff Elle Puff.

lol glad it’s not just me