Comments on: Questioning innovation

By: Innovating Innovation | AidSpeak

Innovating Innovation | AidSpeak — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:37:10 +0000

[...] OCHA’s emphasis on the research-and-paper presentation portion of the grant is important, I think, and speaks to Ben Ramalingam’s concern that, “We are not helped by the fact that many innovation stories are in fact apocryphal – retrospectivel….“ [...]

By: J.

J. — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:12:01 +0000

Excellent post.

My own contribution to the innovation discussion: http://talesfromethehood.com/2011/06/08/moving-into-the-real-world/

By: rick davies

rick davies — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:15:27 +0000

Innovation seems to me to be about learning new ways of doing things. The acquisition/creation of new information. The other side of such learning is about access/retention of old information. There is however a tendency to privilege the former and neglect the former. A balanced view of innovation might include more attention to the equally important task of accessing and using what has already learned. This will mean more attention to the relatively boring tasks of making past data and documentation available over a longer span of time and on a wider more publicly accessible basis. Fortunately there have been some good moves in this direction recently, through the commitment to greater aid transparency and open government processes.

By: dorinebolo

dorinebolo — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:03:11 +0000

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By: Karsten Weitzenegger

Karsten Weitzenegger — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:13:35 +0000

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