Comments on: Irony in humanitarian information http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/05/03/irony-in-humanitarian-information/ because information can save lives Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dennis King http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/05/03/irony-in-humanitarian-information/comment-page-1/#comment-183742 Dennis King Sun, 11 May 2008 21:41:13 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=270#comment-183742 Paul, Missed you at ISCRAM, keep us informed about info activities on Myanmar (what the US State Department calls Burma). Keep on poking..that is one of your roles in the community. Those of us who work for the bureaucracies - government or UN (and I have worked for both) have been able to make some progress, but have also lowered our expectations...we have to go through laborious red tape and clearances. So keep on blogging, you are saying things we can't, and I (we) shouldn't take it personally... Dennis King US Department of State Paul,

Missed you at ISCRAM, keep us informed about info activities on Myanmar (what the US State Department calls Burma).

Keep on poking..that is one of your roles in the community. Those of us who work for the bureaucracies – government or UN (and I have worked for both) have been able to make some progress, but have also lowered our expectations…we have to go through laborious red tape and clearances. So keep on blogging, you are saying things we can’t, and I (we) shouldn’t take it personally…

Dennis King
US Department of State

]]> By: Paul Currion http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/05/03/irony-in-humanitarian-information/comment-page-1/#comment-182169 Paul Currion Tue, 06 May 2008 11:03:35 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=270#comment-182169 I couldn't agree more (and also I hope that casual readers realise that this post was meant to be a friendly poke, rather than a deep criticism of the process). However it is fairly clear that many of the points raised at the conference echoed the same points we were making at the first symposium - and that most of those points were not followed up seriously. Let's work on making sure the same isn't true in 5 years' time! I couldn’t agree more (and also I hope that casual readers realise that this post was meant to be a friendly poke, rather than a deep criticism of the process).

However it is fairly clear that many of the points raised at the conference echoed the same points we were making at the first symposium – and that most of those points were not followed up seriously.

Let’s work on making sure the same isn’t true in 5 years’ time!

]]> By: Dennis King http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/05/03/irony-in-humanitarian-information/comment-page-1/#comment-182165 Dennis King Tue, 06 May 2008 10:57:21 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=270#comment-182165 I hope that the endorsed principles, lessons learned, and best practices are used in training, planning, operations, and polcy development and I hope that at least some of the recommendations are acted upon by memebers of the community. Dennis King US Department of State I hope that the endorsed principles, lessons learned, and best practices are used in training, planning, operations, and polcy development and I hope that at least some of the recommendations are acted upon by memebers of the community.

Dennis King
US Department of State

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