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		<title>Why the technocrat loves the technology</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/24/why-the-technocrat-loves-the-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m making my way through Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart&#8217;s Fixing Failed States, something which I should probably have done a while ago.1 The book, which is a fairly straightforward trot through some post-Washington consensus theorizing about the fate of failed states. It&#8217;s a valuable contribution to a debate which is unlikely to settle down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old School Information Management</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/21/old-school-information-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wading through all this Web 2.0 stuff, it&#8217;s easy to forget that this is what information management is fundamentally about. I produced this adapted flowchart soon after I started working in humanitarian info management (10 years ago, and that ain&#8217;t funny), and it&#8217;s still being used today.
Oh, you&#8217;ll see versions with more stages in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bear versus Shark of Data Entry</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/21/the-bear-versus-shark-of-data-entry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tales from the Hood lays out the harsh reality of aid work - lots of manual data entry. How does that stack up against Robert K&#8217;s Talking Papers?
About two thirds of the form was numerical, and so entering that data got to be pretty mechanical after the first hour or two. But that last third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the relief-development continuum a figment of your imagination?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/21/is-the-relief-development-continuum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Humanitarian Horizons report discusses a range of issues, including demographics, climate change and globalization, and &#8211; more importantly &#8211; doesn&#8217;t suck. There&#8217;s a serious lack of vision in most writing on humanitarian issues, and we need more reports like this. (Although it&#8217;s not looking as far forward as it hopes &#8211; we&#8217;re already in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Violence of the Sudan</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/15/the-violence-of-the-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll begin by saying that I like ICG, that I think their analysis is more often right than wrong, and that even when it&#8217;s wrong it&#8217;s useful. However this podcast makes it clear that they &#8211; like everybody else &#8211; are stuck in a certain way of thinking. On violence in Southern Sudan:
While it&#8217;s important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How international NGOs killed civil society in developing countries</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/01/how-international-ngos-killed-civil-society-in-developing-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest things about southern Sudan is how weak the local NGO community is. It&#8217;s five years after the end of the war, with five years of focused attention from the international community, and five years with an increasing presence of international organisations looking for partners. Yet everybody agrees &#8211; particularly the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/24/reinventing-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are attached to &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221;, and it bothers me. If we want to &#8220;build back&#8221; a country that was such a nightmare that most of the citizens basically wanted to get the hell out, build back better is the way to go; if we want to participate in a project that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking smack about reinventing Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/22/talking-smack-about-reinventing-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the bad news: the extended blog post in which I explain what I meant by Just Say No to Build Back Better has been eaten by black hats (probably Chinese, since everybody else wants to blame them for everything else). I&#8217;m going to get back to it, but it&#8217;s going to take a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Just Say No to Build Back Better</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/17/haiti-just-say-no-to-build-back-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti is on my (thankfully) short list of &#8220;Countries for which I genuinely can&#8217;t see a solution&#8221;. It&#8217;s a possibility that we don&#8217;t like to think about &#8211; that perhaps there are certain situations which countries (loosely defined) cannot get out of. There&#8217;s no logical reason why this couldn&#8217;t happen &#8211; read Jared Diamond&#8217;s &#8220;Collapse&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On not caring about Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/14/on-not-caring-about-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake that struck Haiti is a terrible disaster that requires the international community to provide both immediate aid to save lives and longer-term support to rebuild infrastructure and livelihoods. Even as I write those words, I&#8217;m reading between the lines, and my sympathy for the Haitians affected by the quake is tempered outweighed by [...]]]></description>
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