12.29.07

The wicked problem of poverty

Posted in marketsareconversations, wicked problems, MDG's at 7:22 pm by kevindjones

A blog of mine in a faith-based venue a network group focused on the Millennium Development Goals. How to talk across the divide to people who only measure things in soft ways, and who can see grass roots needs but not system problems. Measuring soft stuff is a wicked problem; you can’t let the measurement deplete identification they feel with the cause, with feeding the children they visited on their mission trip, etc. yet you have to get them to see broader food security issues, its relation to global health issues. The sick child and the system have to both be in the picture. And the money and the social capital at the table has to understand how they both fit into the solution set.

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