Human Rights, Aid Effectiveness, and Development: a few findings for debate today, and tomorrow…
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Today, May 15th, an initiative called Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, was launched. The international NGO on Human Rights, Amnesty International, is partnering with BlogCatalog.com, the bloggers’ social network, so to raise global social awareness on this important issue. Bloggers around the world are being asked to post about human rights. Hundreds of postings [...]
Obama vs. Clinton: distraction from world reality?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008I don’t get it. Late in the evening I watch CNN news. For the past week it has been saturated with interminable reporting on the Obama-Clinton democratic candidate contest. Many pundits have been paraded and asked for opinions on trivia. Obscure (until now) ’superdelegates’ have been interviewed, even if it is to say that hey [...]
IT for Governing or for Governance?: From Hungary to Chile to Burma
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008‘Governing’ or managing a country more efficiently used to be the preferred and top-down interpretation of the concept of governance in the past, as discussed in my previous posting, addressing myth # 3 – which challenged some of the ‘governorexics’ and ’governoskeptics’. Through a few illustrations, let me selectively showcase how a few IT-related innovations were put to use for past ‘governing’ objectives, and lets see how applications of IT did evolve [...]