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 struck by [...]

What can Africa teach the World about Technology?

Author: Alasdair Munn
tcg: The Communication Group
After attending Africa Gathering this weekend, the central key words and phrases I gained were:

Relevance
Solution based approach
Context
Understanding your stakeholders.
Sustainable (All four cornerstones)

In the West, particularly the US, the most publicised and most visible business model for the development of collaborative and people-connecting technologies have been the social network models. [...]