A framework for development
This article prompted me to muse on what frameworks we did need if we hoped to move the world forward, just a little bit.
When in April 2002 Nelson Mandela opened a lecture theatre at Oxford's new Said Business School he hailed the collaboration between universities and the corporate world. Bringing together academic research and the practice of the world of business, work, entrepreneurship and development, he argued, would benignly steer both global corporate power and academic inquiry towards health, education and peace. He drew moving parallels with the peaceful ending of apartheid, when "rivers of blood" were avoided through international pressure from politicians, students and business alike.
How short can we make the list? So far I have:
- Open access to information - The Internet, Freedom of Information, Open Source, that kind of thing...
- An "evidence-based" culture - we know it works, we've got the science/metrics/evidence to prove it...
- The Principle of Charity - essentially a viewpoint that considers others...
- A little effort and a lot of patience...
Omissions, deletions? I'm open to suggestions.
