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Holy crap. That is so dead on in how people are approaching international development lately.

• pinko 11y ago
  Can you give some examples? (To be clear, I'm not at all skeptical but would just love to hear specifics!)
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  • thenipper 11y ago
    Thought of one on my lunch break: Drones! Lately Drones have been seen as something that is going to revolutionize international development. You can map things quickly! Get tons of info! Etc. However the problem is something like a drone tends to make host governments pretty nervous. Nepal from what I understand was a great example of that. There was a ton of drone usage there by NGOs, journalists and other groups. This increased the tensions that the government has with foreign aid workers which in turn slowed down the rate of recovery. As a counterpoint there are great things like the 'contact tracking' apps used in the Ebola response. Various ICT4D companies made a mobile app that allowed field workers and local health workers to track who people had contact with and do followup appointments to make sure that they remained disease free. It's a simple concept but one that proved to be from what I understand very helpful.