whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...PC speeches on http://www.olpctalks.com My favorite is his comment that schools need \"magic\" and pilot projects are ridiculous http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/implementation_miracle....

2. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
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...lifornians were constrained in a very unusual way. Their retail price was capped at 6.7 US cents per kilowatt hour, but – should any shortfall arise – they would have to purchase addition...

3. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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...the scientist who discovered the laws that went into the making of that product, for the work of the philosopher who taught men how to think and whom your spend your time denouncing." The point t...

4. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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... Infrastructure is degraded, power is limited, and the costs of investment are high. The market is perilously poor and there is little to attract exiled Zimbabweans home. Whythawk has been benchmark...

5. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...though is the hurtling, searing, icy bullets of rain thrust malevolently in gales that reach over 100 kilometres per hour. You don't want to be living in a plastic shelter in an informal settleme...

6. Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
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...isations will go to avoid talking about business, or to businesses. International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia speaking at the XIth African Regional Meeting called for a ne...

7. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
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...h does little to assist that selling process. The open-source movement needs you to believe in their philosophy and can offer nothing more than the fire and brimstone of an old-style evangelist, promi...

8. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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The video image flickers in the conference hall. "Even if you took our computer away, we would save and buy another. For it has opened our world and increased our profits," says a peasant

9. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
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...tate-monopolies; from Gazprom in Russia, to Airbus in Europe. CEOs may come and go, but the central philosophy that causes the incompetence, inefficiency and all-round uselessness in the first place,...

10. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
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... in which the needs of individuals were sacrificed for the good of the whole. At their core the two philosophies centred on an ideal:  is society better off when we allow unrestrained expression...

11. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
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... "bloop" that we love.  They have dramatically different forms of governance than us; philosophies that have enabled their astonishing level of sophistication and development.  The...

12. NOW UP: Western Cape Enterprise Development Ratings
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...rted development of our first development ratings procedures.  Three months ago we completed our pilot and, on the strength of that, signed up our first client. Now we can announce that we have c...

13. Ratings Methodology
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... of the meeting with members of the management team is to develop an understanding of its management philosophy, mission, and strategic goals.  A tour of the organisation’s office is helpf...