Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.990714142809.22511C-100000@world.std.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:31:39 -0400 From: Renewable News Network <mailto:rnn@RNN.COM> Subject: Re: [Fwd: infoDev Call for Proposals (Urgent time line)] To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
"Whenever I see a man coming to do me good, I run the other way."
-Thoreau
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Kerry Miller wrote:
> > 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
>
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