Message-ID: <19990713184017.AAC10360@LOCALNAME> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:42:13 +0000 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: [Fwd: infoDev Call for Proposals (Urgent time line)] To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
> Only proposals received before 5:30 pm on July 16, 1999
> will be considered.
Seriously, what's the point in such posts? Is this 'outreach' or a slap in the face of the public? If the proposal is "to help developing economies fully benefit from information and communication technologies" when do they fully benefit -- the 1st of August?
I propose that the WB slow down a tad -- I'll let you know where to send the $150,000. (Is tomorrow soon enough?)
kerry cc: mailto:Pstreet@worldbank.org, Devforum@worldbank.org
========= From: mailto:kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca (Kerry Miller) To: mailto:cdf@jazz.worldbank.org Date sent: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:39:33 +0000 Subject: [CDF] Re: What happened to SHD?
Leslie Fox wrote, >
> There is no easy answer as to how to maintain the unity of SHD,
> but a couple of principles stand out. First, keep the human being
> or citizen at the center ... Secondly, [look at] the lowest level
> of democratically elected government as the principal LOCUS of
> development decisionmaking and implementation. By focussing on the
> resolution of public problems at the level of local government, it
> provides legitimate public actors with a concrete way to overcome
> their differences by addressing collective problems in partnership.
>
I agree entirely, but will go one logical step further: the 'lowest... elected government' is face-to-face discourse, when one 'elects' to speak, or when one 'governs' one's emotions in order to hear another speak.
> It has taken human kind the better part of 10 millennia to come up
> with a workable model for promoting a healthy public life. Is
> there a question that sustainable HUMAN development is
anything > but sustainable HOLISTIC development?
The miracle of modernity is that it has taken hardly 100 years of systematic *unfocussing on this crucial level between spiritual and material modes of development for whole cultures to disintegrate -- and for a conference such as this to be able to 'exchange views' for three weeks [or four days] without considering whether any actual human-personal changes (such as occur in real conversation, where it's called 'learning') will occur as a consequence.
Cheers, kerry