Keyword: development
Reflections on new and old actors
Some of the so called new or emerging groups that come up during the discussion are the diaspora, CSR, new media and the sad and lonely people who use the new media. We heard from the speakers at the Dialogue how new media like FB and twitter helped activist in Iran and Syria which in some sense is redefining new forms of activism. We also heard the downside of how companies like Google or Nokia can make one very traceable and hence vulnerable as well.
Less Pretension, More ambition
In February 2010, the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) published a landmark report on the Dutch development sector. The report, titled 'Less pretention, More ambition' sparked widespread debate in the Netherlands about the future of aid. Now there is an english version of the report too.
Development cooperation is a knowledge industry
01/12/2008 Development cooperation is a knowledge industry. If I state that or write that down, it always looks if that is something very obvious, something that even the blind can see. Still I arrive from time to time in places where that is severely underestimated, where un-experienced and not-knowledgeable seems to be the internal rule to appoint people at places, more than the opposite. Or places where this statement is acknowledged and subscribed, but where it is assumed that knowledge is automatic...Dutch Development Cooperation.
Inaugural Lecture entitled Gedachten over de Nederlandse Identiteit en de Nederlandse ontwikkelingssamenwerking by Paul Hoebink at Radboud University Nijmegen. He holds a special professorial chair in Development Cooperation at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN) at the Radboud University Nijmegen, instituted by HIVOS and Oxfam Novib. For details see the CIDIN website.Excellence and relevance in development research
The Platform MDG Profs, an initiative of Dutch research and higher education associations, councils, funding organisations and Dutch ministries, in cooperation with Hivos, is looking for examples of research which are demonstrably excellent academically as well as relevant to development cooperation.
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