A few years ago Alpheus Bingham of Eli Lilly wished to get greater insight on some nagging problems. He created a site called InnoCentive to crowd source the problems. Companies seeking solutions to nagging problems posted them. People who want to view, read and offer solutions register and offer their opinion. In this way many nagging problems were solved. Guyana need to do something like that to help source those the diaspora who can help given many have insights that are untapped and inaccessible to them.
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Originally Posted by Stormborn:
A few years ago Alpheus Bingham of Eli Lilly wished to get greater insight on some nagging problems. He created a site called InnoCentive to crowd source the problems. Companies seeking solutions to nagging problems posted them. People who want to view, read and offer solutions register and offer their opinion. In this way many nagging problems were solved. Guyana need to do something like that to help source those the diaspora who can help given many have insights that are untapped and inaccessible to them.
This is a good idea, but as TK said apparently the instruction was to disengage the diaspora. Any kind of 'crowd source" reach out like this should come from the government. I have a feeling that they have the mindset that they have to disengage the diaspora because those in the diaspora believe "they know everything."
By the way, there is a database on the Foreign Affairs ministry website for people to register to let them know how you can contribute, but it looks like they are only looking for monetary contributions because I tried to register under other options (than monetary donations) and the thing kicked me out.
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Guyana needs to bring in a person like this person to study the country and to give recommendations. He is super brilliant.
David F. Andersen, PhDOâLeary Professor of Public Administration and Policy |
About Professor Andersen
David F. Andersen is Distinguished Service Professor of Public Administration and Information Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany--SUNY. He is a founding fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, an information systems R&D center for the state of New York.
Professor Andersen holds an AB in Mathematics and Social Sciences from Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Professor Andersen's current work centers on evaluating the cost and performance characteristics of information systems and decision support systems in the public sector. His recent work has focused on the use of formal computer-based tools and models to help groups understand the system-wide impacts of information and decision support systems.
Professor Andersen's consulting and research activities include assembling and managing research and consulting teams to address a wide variety of public policy problems with clients in the public and private sectors. He has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Public Affairs and Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York.
Prof. Andersen has been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics. He is the co-author of Introduction to Computer Simulation: The System Dynamics Modeling Approach and Government Information Management as well as over eighty other edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters dealing with system dynamics, public policy and management, and information systems. Professor Andersen is a Past President of the System Dynamics Society.
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Originally Posted by VVP:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
A few years ago Alpheus Bingham of Eli Lilly wished to get greater insight on some nagging problems. He created a site called InnoCentive to crowd source the problems. Companies seeking solutions to nagging problems posted them. People who want to view, read and offer solutions register and offer their opinion. In this way many nagging problems were solved. Guyana need to do something like that to help source those the diaspora who can help given many have insights that are untapped and inaccessible to them.
This is a good idea, but as TK said apparently the instruction was to disengage the diaspora. Any kind of 'crowd source" reach out like this should come from the government. I have a feeling that they have the mindset that they have to disengage the diaspora because those in the diaspora believe "they know everything."
By the way, there is a database on the Foreign Affairs ministry website for people to register to let them know how you can contribute, but it looks like they are only looking for monetary contributions because I tried to register under other options (than monetary donations) and the thing kicked me out.
Good ideas all but we Guyanese are some seriously arrogant people. We know everything bai. I don't expect any guyanese party to consider Stormy's proposal, be it PPP, APNU or AFC.
Originally Posted by Itaname:
Originally Posted by VVP:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
A few years ago Alpheus Bingham of Eli Lilly wished to get greater insight on some nagging problems. He created a site called InnoCentive to crowd source the problems. Companies seeking solutions to nagging problems posted them. People who want to view, read and offer solutions register and offer their opinion. In this way many nagging problems were solved. Guyana need to do something like that to help source those the diaspora who can help given many have insights that are untapped and inaccessible to them.
This is a good idea, but as TK said apparently the instruction was to disengage the diaspora. Any kind of 'crowd source" reach out like this should come from the government. I have a feeling that they have the mindset that they have to disengage the diaspora because those in the diaspora believe "they know everything."
By the way, there is a database on the Foreign Affairs ministry website for people to register to let them know how you can contribute, but it looks like they are only looking for monetary contributionswant to connect with the diaspora because I tried to register under other options (than monetary donations) and the thing kicked me out.
Good ideas all but we Guyanese are some seriously arrogant people. We know everything bai. I don't expect any guyanese party to consider Stormy's proposal, be it PPP, APNU or AFC.
The political parties want to connect with the diaspora when they are in Opposition, and/ or when they are seeking ideas. The refrain to dem boys from foreign is usually " Dis na de way abe do things in Guyana".
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