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In 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea and sending the international community into panic. By 2014, experts were grimly predicting that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, at this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. Why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards draws on his extensive firsthand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's alarmed response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported community initiatives already in place, such as giving local people agency in terms of disposing of bodies.
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Paul is the author of Helping Your Church Live Stream, The Unofficial Guide to Open Broadcaster Software, The Virtual Ticket and now The Online Meeting Survival Guide. Paul is the Chief Streaming Officer for the StreamGeeks, a group of video communication experts dedicated to helping businesses discover the power of online communications.Every Monday, Paul and his team produce a live show in their downtown West Chester, PA studio location. Having produced live shows as amateurs themselves, the StreamGeeks steadily worked their way toward a professional level by learning from experience as they went. Along the way, Richards, has written several books about their innovative video communication strategies developed with today's most powerful online tools.Today, they have an impressive following and a tight-knit online community that they serve through special events and online productions that continue to inspire, motivate and inform those who refuse to settle for mediocrity. The StreamGeeks show explores the ever-evolving online communication industry while engaging an active live audience.
