Sounds Like an Awesome Idea…

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Shawn
on April 29, 2010
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Christopher Fabian is the Co-Leader at UNICEF’s Innovation Team. Today he wrote this interesting blog post. Here’s a (slightly edited & typo corrected) excerpt:

Imagine if a large organization could put out its project plans in a way that was appealing to comment on.

Imagine if there was transparency and accountability of ideas in development.

Imagine if there was involvement of donors and implementers – and (watch out!) the beneficiaries of projects.

Imagine if we could actually ask people in the developing world what they thought of projects before we started them.

Hello! *waves hand…. points at project* Oh wait, I should probably post some examples:

Imagine if a large organization could put out its project plans in a way that was appealing to comment on.

Imagine if there was transparency and accountability of ideas in development.

Imagine if there was involvement of donors and implementers – and (watch out!) the beneficiaries of projects.

Imagine if we could actually ask people in the developing world what they thought of projects before we started them.

UNICEF is one of the many organizations I’ve been trying to team up with. I would love the opportunity to get UNICEF (and staff like Christopher Fabian – whom I actually met and talked to about my project earlier this month) beyond just “imagining” :)

P.S. The last video which mentions that a Pond Sand Filter last two years is actually a bit off. Since then I talked to an engineer who told me that a community-maintained Pond Sand Filter (maintaining = releasing the waste valve, rinsing the sand, etc) will last 10+ years.

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  • http://www.muktibangla.org/blog Medica Student

    Shawn, I was wondering if you got the email from the Chairman from MuktiBangla…we’re planning on funneling money to you for contributions.

  • http://www.muktibangla.org/blog Medica Student

    Shawn, I was wondering if you got the email from the Chairman from MuktiBangla…we’re planning on funneling money to you for contributions.

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    @Medica Student – No I don’t think so. Right now, as you can see from this blog post, I’m trying to build my capacity by getting more organizations to team up with with me. This is especially true for multinationals operating in Bangladesh.

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    @Medica Student – No I don’t think so. Right now, as you can see from this blog post, I’m trying to build my capacity by getting more organizations to team up with with me. This is especially true for multinationals operating in Bangladesh.

  • chris

    hey – twitter whale so sending message here –
    “hey – was just looking to correct the typos you mention in my original post..can you send me corrections? i couldn’t find them comparing texts…”
    let me know – i aim for typo-

  • chris

    hey – twitter whale so sending message here –
    “hey – was just looking to correct the typos you mention in my original post..can you send me corrections? i couldn’t find them comparing texts…”
    let me know – i aim for typo-

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    @Chris – thanks for the reply. I cut & pasted your blog post right into WordPress and it red-underlined a the word “transparancy”. I didn’t notice the typo originally & probably would have spelt it the same way :)

    But the other edit I did was basically remove references the particular campaign you were referencing since, quoted without that context, it wouldn’t have made sense.

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    @Chris – thanks for the reply. I cut & pasted your blog post right into WordPress and it red-underlined a the word “transparancy”. I didn’t notice the typo originally & probably would have spelt it the same way :)

    But the other edit I did was basically remove references the particular campaign you were referencing since, quoted without that context, it wouldn’t have made sense.

  • chris

    cool – thanks… i’ll change that tomorrow – just to note that you changed my “its” to “their” in your text, which is incorrect. “organization” is singular and should take “it” rather than “their” as a pronoun…but thanks again for the spelling correction…catchya on friday. c

  • chris

    cool – thanks… i’ll change that tomorrow – just to note that you changed my “its” to “their” in your text, which is incorrect. “organization” is singular and should take “it” rather than “their” as a pronoun…but thanks again for the spelling correction…catchya on friday. c

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    Fixed! :) To be honest, I ofen flail at speleing and gramamr ;)

  • http://uncultured.com Shawn

    Fixed! :) To be honest, I ofen flail at speleing and gramamr ;)

  • Michelle

    Thank you for taking what was on the inside…the power of empathising with others whose experience you’d never shared…and bringing it to the outside to enable real change and for involving people along the way. People respect charity that is open and honest. Good luck in your partnerships!

  • Michelle

    Thank you for taking what was on the inside…the power of empathising with others whose experience you’d never shared…and bringing it to the outside to enable real change and for involving people along the way. People respect charity that is open and honest. Good luck in your partnerships!