Please sign up for a final meeting time to review your paper – first come, first serve (using the comments section) though I ask that the Wednesday slots are reserved for those who are urgent to get feedback and advice..
Wednesday afternoon (3 slots)
2:00; 2:20; 2:40
Friday morning (8 slots)
9:20, 9:40, 10:00; 10:20; 10:40; 11:00; 11:20; 11:40
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I look forward to Tuesday’s class, in which we will be working with each other on research papers. As mentioned in class on Thursday, please use the comments section here to (a) briefly summarize your research question(s); and (b) identify the big challenges you still face in order to have a top-notch paper. Then – say by the end of tonight if we can – let’s have you all match up and then share your drafts with each other. This is probably most easily done in couplets (a shares with b, b shares with a); it could also be done in triplets (a shares with b; b shares with c; c shares with a). In true Development 3.0 fashion, there is no ’solution’ as to how to do this; let’s see what happens … In the meantime, come by my office tomorrow afternoon if you want to go over anything. JTI
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First, thanks for all of the hard work that you put into your drafts. I look forward to reading them.
Second, we have just five more meetings! During the first of them – next Tuesday the 18th - I’d like to study and discuss the issue that Kate raised the other day: new global-level institutions that have developed, in recent years, to take on large-scale challenges. To address this, we will study Lew Milford’s excellent Climate Choreography: How Distribution and Open Innovation Could Accelerate Development and Deployment And please also do a tour of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis website, as it’s an important precedent for Lew’s vision.
Finally, what else do you want to study and discuss together? I want you all to shape what we discuss in our final meetings: I will tailor the reaing assignments based on what you prioritiize. please use the comments section here to propose final topics and readings …
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So as discussed in class, here’s what will happen next week.
Please let me know if you have any questions, etc. JTI
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I think we need to do a better job in drawing out the themes and implications of Hawken’s provocative Blessed Unrest. Here’s what I propose: as we read and discuss the material in Bornstein’s How to Change the World, let’s make a deliberate effort to connect the material there with material in Hawken’s book. Please use this space to share your ideas on this, prior to Tuesday’s class. And be specific as you analyze and critique the themes that the books have in common.
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I look forward to meeting you all over the next few days, to review next steps for your research. Here are our meeting times: please use the comments section to sign up for one.
Friday (6 slots)
3:20; 3:40; 4:00; 4:20; 4:40; 5:00
Monday (5 slots)
2:20; 2:40; 4:00; 4:20; 4:40.
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That was an excellent class today! Many thanks for all of your contributions .. And we ended with the good discussion about ‘thinking like a clinician’ vs. ‘thinking like an ecologist.’ So what do you think?: if you ran an agency trying to promote sustainable development, would you appoint more clinicians or ecologists as planners; more clinicians or ecologists as searchers? Share your thoughts!
And here’s another query for you: in the area and sector that you are studying, how do you find the right balance between planning and searching? Moreover, how can you set up a process to improve well-being that (following Woolcock’s talk) has the promise of scale, is sensitive to the cultural context, and helps to manage conflict? Again, please share your thoughts : )
(And as noted, here’s a nice blog that summarizes Easterly’s ideas of planning and searching.)
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Resources on microfinance:
The Green Revolution (NB, all you folks studying food …)
Larry Brilliant
On the pace and scale of social change
Critiques from anthropologists and political scientists
Michael’s work in Indonesia
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I thought we had a very good discussion on Thursday. And Alex sent me an email , which I have reprinted here in full. Please comment on this excellent point that Alex has made … (and note how ot relates to our discussion of your own training here at Midd …)
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What is the importance of the material in Three Cups of Tea for our class? How can the rest of the world — other social entrepreneurs, elected officials, leaders of NGOs and transnational organizations — learn from Mortenson’s experience in Pakistan? Please use the comments section to offer your ideas: I will make sure that we integrate them into Tuesday’s discussion.
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