Development Aid’s Bitter Little Pill

Author: Alasdair Munn The West currently lives within a prescriptive mentality. The road to efficiency is paved with check boxes and packaged solutions. Robust and complicated infrastructure props up bad decisions and resources are used like wallpaper to paper over the cracks. Relative excess generally allows people to live well within this framework. I was [...]

Open Letter to Bill Gates

Today Bill Gates told the people attending the ICTD 2009 Conference in Qatar that Zimbabwe was not worth spending resources on as it is too far gone. I disagree with his remarks and find them unfortunate. They have far reaching consequences for the people of Zimbabwe. Below is an open letter to Mr. Gates explaining [...]