In the slums people often say Jai-Bim instead of Namaste or Normaskar (which is Urdu not hindi i think), to honor Bhim Rao Ambedker, who is viewed as the hero of the dalit community (at least in agra).
What I've found is a lot of information - the internet is crazy when you think of it being such huge volumes of information but all contained in these enduser-managed 'websites' that are not necessarily linked to other websites beyond a certain point. The impact this has on my searching is that it makes it nearly impossible to ever track how much of the available answers out there I have actually accessed. As I look further, I find more information, search different things, and there is more information, and usually I start finding the same information more frequently but in the back of my head I think this is just because i am searching a certain set of words, and the rest of the answers i am looking for are still contained in other sites that are accessible under different logic and definition.
So essentially, here are a couple of sites that I found interesting over the past week or so that either contain something new and cool or a lot of recent compiled information on a given topic. They are all associated with development tech somehow i assume.
The Netherlands somehow has come to be home to people-centered development (cite me). The organizations I've found online give me the impression that they are focused on things that many approaches suffer from: lack of documentation, lack of time, lack of power-dispersion-and-acknowledgement, lack of facilitation. This is interesting as my discussion a few years ago with a a poet-boxer-btselem volunteer dutch-israeli concluded that the Netherlands is very self-centered and high-concept when it comes to development.
KIT SmartHygieneSolutions 2010 useful documentation by category on low-cost tech approaches - mostly for-profit products and distribution and/or local ownership models.
Obama’s Innovator-Advisor’s Blog (this particular article is very accurate, tho I always question someone like this's on-the-ground experience. they understand well conceptually, but they live a nice articulate posh life talking about it and passionate policymaking but how connected is it with the actual real holistic livelihood effects in the end? - this can he understand?)
Kosovo Unicef Innovation Lab This is the only harvard student who i ever met who i liked right away - he will be a part of amazing things because he communicates outside of himself better than most anyone.
Sanitation Updates a simple blog i keep running into
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