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		<title>I am a humanitarian?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/08/19/i-am-a-humanitarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=1002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how critical of the humanitarian community I am, this reminds me of why I chose the path I did. Remember the dead. Celebrate the successes. Learn from failures. Embrace the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Cogito Ergo Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/08/14/cogito-ergo-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tales poses the question, what do you think? Most of the time I&#8217;m not exactly sure what I think, but these thoughts did occur to me as I was reading: How much should be spent for the response to a large disaster by the six-month mark? It&#8217;s the wrong metric, it puts us in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sorceror’s Apprentice</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/08/04/the-sorcerors-apprentice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick has replied to my initial post, but unfortunately has decided to continue his hilarious Harry Potter analogy. So he depicts me as the &#8220;Muggle Master&#8221;, which I assume is an attempt to dismiss my concerns about crowdsourcing as being based on ignorant and/or reactionary attitudes on my part. As we shall see in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Crowdsourcing, with a big sigh</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/07/30/on-crowdsourcing-with-a-big-sigh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/07/30/on-crowdsourcing-with-a-big-sigh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people working on information management in Haiti have concerns about the role of crowdsourcing in humanitarian response, which is something I&#8217;ve written about previously. If you don&#8217;t want to read that whole blog post, the short version is this: I don&#8217;t think that crowdsourcing and humanitarian response are a good fit, for a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A feature not a bug</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/07/16/a-feature-not-a-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have avoided even thinking about Haiti for the last six months, for reasons which I explained previously. Sanjana just circulated a couple of articles, In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging To The Edge and Haiti At Six Months After Earthquake, both of which lament the lack of progress in Haiti after six months. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observe my rapid reaction</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/07/03/observe-my-rapid-reaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chatham House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hybrid Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lieutenant General Richard Sherriff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little bit of self-promotion never hurt anybody, with the possible exception of the Unabomber. Last year I spent time in the bosom of the NATO ARRC, at the end of which I wrote up a short note of observations on the strengths and weaknesses of their stance in these tricky peacekeeping / COIN / [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborating for Impact (or Not)</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/06/07/collaborating-for-impact-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian ruminates on the role of open collaboration in development, although for some reasons he&#8217;s picked examples from relief work. Why have collaborative projects set up to respond to disasters proven so popular in recent years? It&#8217;s mainly because when there&#8217;s a disaster, people want to help &#8211; and they don&#8217;t want to give money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No comment on Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/04/30/no-comment-on-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard to believe that there&#8217;s anybody that can can seriously ask: Are aid donors now running Haiti? Were you expecting anything else? If you were, you are frankly deluded. This is the Political Economy of Aid 101, and if you didn&#8217;t pick that up within the first 3 months of working in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somebody cares about statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/03/31/somebody-cares-about-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/03/31/somebody-cares-about-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aiddata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mo ibrahim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim berners-lee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When various members of the elite are asked how they&#8217;d spend $10 billion dollars for charity, most of them respond exactly how you&#8217;d expect: The obvious. &#8220;Stimulate job creation in developing countries&#8221;? Why didn&#8217;t I think of that! Wait there for a moment, I&#8217;ll just go and do that. The vague. &#8220;Tackle climate change&#8221;? With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Non-technical Principles for Developing Information Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/03/16/five-non-technical-principles-for-developing-information-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/03/16/five-non-technical-principles-for-developing-information-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazing how working eats into your blogging time. Off the top of my head: Articulate user requirements to focus on the necessary. Consider individual and organisational incentives for (not) sharing. Map information flows within and between individuals/organisations. Where possible, bind to existing processes as a starting point. Keep tools simple, usability the focus and end [...]]]></description>
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