Selected African Footnotes to F.H. Hinsley

Saying our prayers

[Globaldev-focused readers may find this one, about the Church of England’s ‘core business’, less directly up their street: or, on reflection, thinking…

Jun 24 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

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May 2025

International Nurses' Day (just about) 2025: in praise of Howie

Belated greetings for Monday’s International Nurses’ Day 2025 from Lusaka, Zambia.

May 16 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

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January 2025

Some quick reflections about Children’s Ministry/Sunday School/Children’s Church in general

Some thoughts written down having had the privilege of worshipping with the children at St Mary Magdalene, Kabulonga, Lusaka for seven years

Jan 22 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

1

November 2024

F.H. Hinsley, patron saint of use cases, bless our drones for Africa

‘Everyone knows’ that, through logical brilliance and by setting the foundations of modern computing, the mathematician Alan Turing and the Bletchley…

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

2

April 2024

First you have to know them

Practical approaches on working out how to physically enumerate/ enrol people in the 21st century

Apr 13, 2024 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

2

March 2024

Microcosmos and tiny imperium

notes towards a theology of model railways

Mar 19, 2024 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

2

July 2023

Development White Paper - Dirtying the Page

Executive Summary:

Jul 20, 2023 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

January 2023

What C-Dog did next, part 1: “not so much big data, as many small data”

I think I first met Ivar Strand on the back doorstep of the Ministry of Finance in Mogadishu, almost a decade ago.

Jan 30, 2023 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

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Before the hamster forgets the wheel: or “They fear you for work”

At the end of November I finished at CGA Technologies. I had started the team that made up CGA at Booz & Company in 2008, set up the firm (then called…

Jan 26, 2023 • 

Charlie Goldsmith

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November 2022