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Questioning innovation

Reblogged from Aid on the Edge of Chaos:

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Innovation is popular in aid at the moment, so much so that there is a steady spate of articles which range from trashing its potential contribution to development through to challenging Western, donor, countries' assumed roles as the 'providers' of innovation.

In this post I want to argue that there is a middle  ground between the unthinking mantras that are increasingly peddled by agencies and the growing number of entirely justifiable critiques.

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Ben Ramalingam argues that there is a middle ground between the unthinking mantras that are increasingly peddled by agencies and the growing number of entirely justifiable critiques.

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