First, the bad news: the extended blog post in which I explain what I meant by Just Say No to Build Back Better has been eaten by black hats (probably Chinese, since everybody else wants to blame them for everything else). I’m going to get back to it, but it’s going to take a bit of time to reconstruct, and I’m in southern Sudan, so good luck with that.
Second, the good news: IRIN just podcasted interviews with Sanjana and myself on the Haiti response. You can hear me talking about Just Say No – think of it as a trailer for the blog post. Bottom line is this: the system we have in place for disaster response and reconstruction is broken, and we need something completely new.
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