Stephen Abbott Pugh

Knight International Journalism Fellow with Code for Africa. Co-founder of Tumenye Digital and Sobanukirwa.rw in Rwanda. Used to work for the UK Parliament and the Guardian

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Stephen Abbott Pugh joins the Code for Africa team

We are excited to welcome Stephen Abbott Pugh to the Code for Africa (CfAfrica) team. Abbott Pugh will be leading the de…

Very excited about working with this team

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A playlist of useful YouTube videos explaining how people are changing government digital services

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I want you to take me to funky town

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Open Up: a video by Ben Woodhams on the importance and opportunities around creating and releasing open data from the UK Parliament (featuring me and lots of other more interesting folk)

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A grassroots radio revolution underway in the heart of #Uganda - my piece on @RootioRadio for @HowWeGetToNext http://t.co/udwKvlm6c4

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November 12, 2014

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President Obama is urging the Federal Communications Commission to protect net neutrality. Read his statement on keeping the internet open and free:

An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new...

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Maximum :Danielle in full effect at the 11th annual Mile 9 Marathon Spectacular.

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PHHHOTO by Olga

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Flashback https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150906438660062&set=a.10150906428725062.747918.860850061&type=3&theater

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The Secret Victims of Iraq’s Chemical Arms

Aged shells and warheads. Officers who ordered wounded troops to silence. Substandard medical care (and even denial of treatment) to Iraqis and Americans who were exposed. American-designed mustard shells in the corroded vestiges of Saddam Hussein’s old chemical stockpile.  Honors denied to troops who served in some of the most dangerous jobs of the most recent Iraq War.

On The New York Times: An untold chronicle of the United States’ long and bitter involvement in Iraq.

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

An investigation many months in works, and at last in print. Heres why:  

Reporting was contributed by John Ismay, Duraid Ahmed, Omar al-Jawoshy, Mac William Bishop and Eric Schmitt. Alain Delaquérière contributed research.

Produced by Craig Allen, David Furst, Alicia DeSantis, Sergio Peçanha, Shreeya Sinha, Frank O’Connell, Derek Watkins and Josh Williams.

With editing by Michael Slackman and Matt Purdy, and photographs by Tyler Hicks

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Leaking 155-mm mustard agent shells among those that wounded five American soldiers near Taji, Iraq in 2008

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It started with a request many of you have emailed us about – wanting to browse all the jams someone has posted.

Today, you can! Check out your own, or some of our favorites like garage_xplosion’s fuzzed-out guitars, ChampagneMami’s sizzling RnB party, or sarahbadr’s up-and-coming...

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Tiny infographic #13 For every 100 smartphone users, 71 people practise open defecation »> Over one billion people lack sanitation facilities and continue a practice that poses serious health and environmental risks to themselves and entire communities. (UN Development goals report 2013) http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/report-2013/mdg-report-2013-english.pdf »> By the end of 2013, 1.4 billion smartphones would be in use, according to a new study by ABI Research. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-number-of-smartphone-users-tops-1-billion

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Mobile Payments in Africa. Data via the Pew Research Centre, 2013.

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We are announcing today the beta release of Odyssey.js, an open source library that allows journalists, designers and creators to weave interactive stories on the web. The development has been possible thanks to the support of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Although the web has…

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How to Dress Well - & It Was U (Live on KEXP) (by KEXP)

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality (by LastWeekTonight)