Owen Barder discusses the future of aid agencies - Zunia.org September 22, 2011
It is great to see someone of the stature of Owen Barder promoting the same view that Dadamac holds - that there needs to be more discussion between Aid agencies and the people they are supposed to be helping.
That idea (along with he fact that two way communication is possible thanks to phones and the Internet) was key to the creation of Dadamac
Dadamac - the Internet-enabled alternative to top-down development http://dadamac.posterous.com/dadamac-the-internet-enabled-alternative-to-t
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Owen Barder discusses the future of aid agencies
Owen Barder recently spoke at Development Gateway about the complexities of global development and the future of aid agencies. Here Zunia follows up with him to share some key insights about global development.
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Aid agencies will need to play quite different role in the coming years. Citizens will no longer rely on other people to identify options and select the best choice. They will want to do so themselves. Aid agencies can evolve into organizations which help citizens to make informed choices about how to meet their objectives. But they are unlikely to prosper if they continue to see their role as making that choice on behalf of citizens.
Full interview at