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• A comment on Talk: Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid

  Jan 10 2013: Hey George, constructive critique play transformational role in change process at all levels, be it personal or matter of fact organizational. The World Bank is also in the transformational phase with its 'opening up of development' agenda - a fact well explained in the talk. I believe unequivocally that way ahead is openness in aid, knowledge & governance. And this is exactly the strategic long term vision of the bank. As for your valid point about current state of poverty, which is perhaps most debated development discourse since end of the Great War, I would highly encourage to watch the perspective presented by Mr. Jim Yong Kim , President of World Bank Group during the 2012 Annual Meetings of the Bank & IMF in Tokyo recently. It’s possible and doable as Mr. Jim called on multi-stakeholder partnership to “bend the arc of history”, a commitment to end the blot of chronic poverty from the face of earth forever. Below is the link to watch this 8 minutes video on YOUTUBE. Perhaps even the harshest critique would give the thumps-up!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPczdc0AtiI

• A comment on Talk: Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid

  Nov 24 2012: LONELY WARRIORS & WINDS OF CHANGE IN BIHAR!
  Thanks to Mr. Sanjay for the inspirational talk, very nostalgic too as coming from Bihar, I can relate with experience of ‘opening up the development’ as shared during the talk. Indeed, chronically backward Indian state of Bihar is undergoing ‘de-envelopment’- a transformation with sweeping departure from business-as-usual approach. And key drivers are open knowledge & governance as shared by Mr.Sanjay. Right to information Act is slowly but firmly changing governance landscape of Bihar as well as India by empowering common citizen to demand & enforce accessible and accountable bureaucracy and Government. These changes reflect life time passion & commitment of ‘lonely warriors’ as said by Mr Sanjay. The spirit & momentum provided by these lonely warriors is made by well-known personalities like Anna Hazare but more notably by numerous anonymous torch bearers like late father of Mr Sanjay. Armed with constitutional rights and unrestrained knowledge flow of social media, people are coming together and raising their voices for political and developmental accountability from Government. Part of credit goes to the strategies, practises & advisory support provided by humanitarian organisations like World Bank as well as committed leadership fostering citizen responsive governance. I wish to share an experience of mine when I was part of a UN team in Bihar technically facilitating state Government in geo-mapping key socio-economic indicators in 2009. Our initiative was reciprocated with astonishing support of Government & we were able to assist state Government in publishing a ‘Planning Atlas’ for entire state for the first time using cutting edge GIS technology. This helped Government to identify indicator based disparities within the state & hence devise informed strategies and policies. I hope & have firm belief that this journey of engagement and empowerment of the ‘last in the line’ will continue. Thanks again for the talk.