Jacmel Sursum Corda
Krik? Krak!
Hillary rankontre ak Grann @mirlandemanigat, Tèt Kale @Presidentmicky, Célestin ak Préval.
1/31/11
Tweets of the Day 1/30/11
Pre-Carnival and Sunday musings
Jacmel Sursum Corda
Krik? Krak!
Hillary rankontre ak Grann @mirlandemanigat, Tèt Kale @Presidentmicky, Célestin ak Préval.
Jacmel Sursum Corda
Krik? Krak!
Hillary rankontre ak Grann @mirlandemanigat, Tèt Kale @Presidentmicky, Célestin ak Préval.
1/29/11
Tweets of the Day 1/29/11
Egypt
Haiti
Brain drain and now Twitter drain?
Comic relief
Men Twitjako fè Grann ak Miki tounen M&M...
Haiti
Brain drain and now Twitter drain?
Comic relief
Men Twitjako fè Grann ak Miki tounen M&M...
1/28/11
Tweets of the Day
On point:
The video in this tweet is a resounding Fail. (What is the point being conveyed here again?)
The video in this tweet is a resounding Fail. (What is the point being conveyed here again?)
1/27/11
#Haiti #Elections: How are candidates doing on Twitter?
Number of followers:
Mirlande Manigat @mirlandemanigat 1,661
Michel Martelly @presidentmicky 6,395
Jude Célestin @judecelestin10 199
Charles-Henri Baker @CharlesHBaker 1,447
Looks like Michel (Sweet Micky) Martelly --who placed second in the first round according to the OAS -- has gleaned the most followers. This makes sense because he attracted plenty of tech-savvy supporters, including @carelpedre (18,000 + followers on Twitter) and @karljeanjeune, two twenty-somethings who made a name for themselves by tweeting the earthquake live. @carelpedre and @ramhaiti, both Micky supporters, are also arguably the two Haiti-based Haitians with the most followers on Twitter (18,000 and 15,000 respectively).
With a measly 199 followers, @Judecelestin10's campaign seems to have underestimated Twitter as a communications tool. Or is it that the candidate of the ruling party simply felt he did not need as much help as the others? Even @CharlesHBaker, who did not place in the top three, has about 5 times as many followers!
Front-runner @mirlandemanigat who is 70 and @charlesHBaker who is in his sixties deserve kudos for having accounts and have each scored around 1,500 followers.
While Manigat has not posted since Christmas, Sweet Micky has posted steadily this week after a reprieve earlier this month. But neither post as much as Célestin who was asking followers to vote for him even while his INITE party colleagues were not so subtly inviting him to withdraw.
Initial election results placed Manigat first and Célestin second, sending them both to the second round. But allegations of fraud on the part of Célestin's INITE, the party of current President René Préval, caused the OAS to issue a report which placed Martelly, not Célestin in second place.
The Célestin saga reached a peak yesterday when even as foreign embassies were pressuring his party to withdraw his candidacy, he posted the following:
What makes Haitian tweeters laugh at this tweet is that Jude Célestin, not Michel Martelly, is the one currently being "encouraged" to concede by the international community. Just when we were least expecting it, the candidate with the least followers on Twitter started using the tool to flex some unlikely muscle...
But there is more. Today he posted this:
Am I missing something? Does this mean Manigat wins? To be continued.
I have compiled a Haiti candidates Twitter list where you can follow this soap opera blow by blow:
http://twitter.com/#!/kiskeacity/haiti-candidates-2010
And needless to say yours truly will keep tweeting what comes out of the TwitterDjòl at @kiskeacity.
Mirlande Manigat @mirlandemanigat 1,661
Michel Martelly @presidentmicky 6,395
Jude Célestin @judecelestin10 199
Charles-Henri Baker @CharlesHBaker 1,447
Looks like Michel (Sweet Micky) Martelly --who placed second in the first round according to the OAS -- has gleaned the most followers. This makes sense because he attracted plenty of tech-savvy supporters, including @carelpedre (18,000 + followers on Twitter) and @karljeanjeune, two twenty-somethings who made a name for themselves by tweeting the earthquake live. @carelpedre and @ramhaiti, both Micky supporters, are also arguably the two Haiti-based Haitians with the most followers on Twitter (18,000 and 15,000 respectively).
With a measly 199 followers, @Judecelestin10's campaign seems to have underestimated Twitter as a communications tool. Or is it that the candidate of the ruling party simply felt he did not need as much help as the others? Even @CharlesHBaker, who did not place in the top three, has about 5 times as many followers!
Front-runner @mirlandemanigat who is 70 and @charlesHBaker who is in his sixties deserve kudos for having accounts and have each scored around 1,500 followers.
While Manigat has not posted since Christmas, Sweet Micky has posted steadily this week after a reprieve earlier this month. But neither post as much as Célestin who was asking followers to vote for him even while his INITE party colleagues were not so subtly inviting him to withdraw.
Initial election results placed Manigat first and Célestin second, sending them both to the second round. But allegations of fraud on the part of Célestin's INITE, the party of current President René Préval, caused the OAS to issue a report which placed Martelly, not Célestin in second place.
The Célestin saga reached a peak yesterday when even as foreign embassies were pressuring his party to withdraw his candidacy, he posted the following:
What makes Haitian tweeters laugh at this tweet is that Jude Célestin, not Michel Martelly, is the one currently being "encouraged" to concede by the international community. Just when we were least expecting it, the candidate with the least followers on Twitter started using the tool to flex some unlikely muscle...
But there is more. Today he posted this:
Am I missing something? Does this mean Manigat wins? To be continued.
I have compiled a Haiti candidates Twitter list where you can follow this soap opera blow by blow:
http://twitter.com/#!/kiskeacity/haiti-candidates-2010
And needless to say yours truly will keep tweeting what comes out of the TwitterDjòl at @kiskeacity.
6/22/10
5/3/10
RECONSTRUCTING HAITI: WOMEN AT THE CENTER (MAY 4)
This is tomorrow Tuesday. Hope to see you there!
The New York Women's Foundation
The Haitian Roundtable
Equality Now
BelTiFi
PotoFanm+Fi
cordially invite you to
RECONSTRUCTING HAITI:
WOMEN AT THE CENTER
WOMEN AT THE CENTER
Where are the voices of Haitian women in
the post-earthquake recovery of their country?
the post-earthquake recovery of their country?
Introduction: Ana Oliveira, New York Women's Foundation
Remarks: Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Manhattan Deputy Borough President
Panelists: Alice Backer, Lawyer and Blogger, PotoFanm+Fi
Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director, Equality Now
Nancy Dorsinville, Senior Policy Advisor, UN Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti
Moderator: Maria Hinojosa, President, Futuro Media
May 4, 2010
6:30-8:30pm
New York Women's Foundation,
434 West 33rd St, 8th Floor, New York, NY
Media Sponsors:
Caribbean Life; Tele Image; CaribNews; The Root; Amsterdam News; Radio Soleil; Optimum; HaitiXchange
View PDF: http://www.worldpulse.com/files/upload/658/haiti_discussion_invitation.pdf
View PDF: http://www.worldpulse.com/files/upload/658/haiti_discussion_invitation.pdf
4/28/10
I'd like to read Haitian blogs but... (No more excuses!)
"How do I read Haitian Blogs?"
"What are blogs?"
"Who has the time to blog?"
"Are there any Haitian blogs out there?"
"How do you keep up with all this stuff?
"Are Haitians saying anything good on Twitter?"
No more excuses.
I spent the last two days aggregating all Haitian blogs known to me in this neat collection:
haitianbloggers.collected
We are far from that day in 2005 when Georgia Popplewell, then Caribbean Editor of Global Voices asked me "why are there no Haitian Blogs?". Haitians have caught on to web 2.0 in the era of Twitter so if many the blogs in the collection are written by diaspora Haitians, Haitians in Haiti are certainly twittering, as you will see in my "Friends in Haiti" Twitter list:
twitter.com/kiskeacity/friends-in-haiti
Haiti twitterers like Carel Pèdre used social and citizen media to break out some of the first images and news the world found out about the EQ. This has won him several awards.
Among the Haitian bloggers based in Haiti are: Alain "The Haitian" Armand, Amstyl Polycarpe, Nancy Leconte Chapoteau, Yael Talleyrand, Carel Pèdre, Régine Zamor, Nadine Mondestin, Richard Morse etc. (As most bloggers today most both tweet and blog. After all tweeting is none other than micro-blogging and it is only so as not to drawn out the bloggers that I did not put many twitter feeds in the aggregator. Thanks Marvin Chéry for pointing it out.)
One unfortunate fact: Richard Morse's blog at the Huffington Post does not have a feed of its own. (Can you hear me cringe?) As his 14,000 twitter followers may make him be the best known Haitian blogger today, I thought of putting his twitter feed in the aggregator but backtracked when I realized that it drowned out the other blogs. (Most bloggers post once a week while tweeters can tweet 20-100 times a day.) But thankfully, you can catch him in the Friends in Haiti Twitter list. (Update: Richard Morse's HuffPo feed has been found and added to the aggregator.)
There is a ways to go in putting citizen and social media tools in the hands of Haitians who neither read, write (about 50% of the population) nor speak English and for influencers to begin viewing social and citizen media as part of literacy. Several experiments with this are being done in India and with migrant laborers in California, using video or the social media tool everyone possesses, even in Haiti: the dumbphone. We will get there and I have no doubt that the aggregator will reflect those voices within a reasonable time.
Please feel free to send any additions in the comment section of this blog, via twitter or in the "suggest a feed" section of the aggregator.
"What are blogs?"
"Who has the time to blog?"
"Are there any Haitian blogs out there?"
"How do you keep up with all this stuff?
"Are Haitians saying anything good on Twitter?"
No more excuses.
I spent the last two days aggregating all Haitian blogs known to me in this neat collection:
haitianbloggers.collected
We are far from that day in 2005 when Georgia Popplewell, then Caribbean Editor of Global Voices asked me "why are there no Haitian Blogs?". Haitians have caught on to web 2.0 in the era of Twitter so if many the blogs in the collection are written by diaspora Haitians, Haitians in Haiti are certainly twittering, as you will see in my "Friends in Haiti" Twitter list:
twitter.com/kiskeacity/friends-in-haiti
Haiti twitterers like Carel Pèdre used social and citizen media to break out some of the first images and news the world found out about the EQ. This has won him several awards.
Among the Haitian bloggers based in Haiti are: Alain "The Haitian" Armand, Amstyl Polycarpe, Nancy Leconte Chapoteau, Yael Talleyrand, Carel Pèdre, Régine Zamor, Nadine Mondestin, Richard Morse etc. (As most bloggers today most both tweet and blog. After all tweeting is none other than micro-blogging and it is only so as not to drawn out the bloggers that I did not put many twitter feeds in the aggregator. Thanks Marvin Chéry for pointing it out.)
There is a ways to go in putting citizen and social media tools in the hands of Haitians who neither read, write (about 50% of the population) nor speak English and for influencers to begin viewing social and citizen media as part of literacy. Several experiments with this are being done in India and with migrant laborers in California, using video or the social media tool everyone possesses, even in Haiti: the dumbphone. We will get there and I have no doubt that the aggregator will reflect those voices within a reasonable time.
Please feel free to send any additions in the comment section of this blog, via twitter or in the "suggest a feed" section of the aggregator.
4/9/10
Interesting numbers about Haitian-Americans
From World Bank economist Dilip Ratha's Blog about migrations, remittances and development:
"By the way, if you are wondering whether Haitian immigrants are too poor to invest, consider this fact from the Current Population Survey of the US: nearly one-third of Haitian immigrants in the US belong to households that earned more than $60,000 in 2009. In comparison, less than 15% of the immigrants from Mexico, Dominican Republic and El Salvador in the US had that level of household income. A quarter of Haitian immigrants, especially women, are reportedly in the relatively higher paying health care and education sectors; only a small number of them are in the construction sector."
(Thanks Carla Murphy, for highlighting this quote.)
"By the way, if you are wondering whether Haitian immigrants are too poor to invest, consider this fact from the Current Population Survey of the US: nearly one-third of Haitian immigrants in the US belong to households that earned more than $60,000 in 2009. In comparison, less than 15% of the immigrants from Mexico, Dominican Republic and El Salvador in the US had that level of household income. A quarter of Haitian immigrants, especially women, are reportedly in the relatively higher paying health care and education sectors; only a small number of them are in the construction sector."
(Thanks Carla Murphy, for highlighting this quote.)
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