Aid agencies need to make themselves irrelevant
April 9th, 2009 at 9:12 am April 9th, 2009 at 9:12 am by Chriswaterguy
If you make technology appropriate and you make the how-tos accessible, you can get people to solve the problems themselves. They don't need aid agencies any more. That's the dichotomy, that's the problem that the aid sector's got to face, with this knowledge. It's got to try and release it, to achieve their mission, but it also means that a lot of their revenue streams, a lot of their purpose will become redundant. And this is generated by people themselves." Andrew Lamb, CEO, EWB-UK and director of the Appropedia Foundation.
That's from this presentation by Vinay Gupta and Andrew Lamb at the recent Open Knowledge Conference in London:
