Monthly Archives: November 2008

Tuesday’s class – research paper workshop

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

Final topics

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 …