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Maybe we just have overly ambitious graphic designers…
Millions will be spent on contractors making exorbitant salaries, eating Wonder Bread and Cheez-Wizz that is airlifted in for more millions, who have no knowledge of the country, region or local languages much less customs and traditions. I’d bet the national budget that not 1/10th of the objectives will ever be achieved, but the boxes will be ticked because the projects have supposedly been carried out. There will be little oversight and no accountability for not really achieving much of anything except enriching the companies who provide the contractors. Our tax dollars at work.
Jan
I don’t think that “Millions being spent on contractors making exorbitant salaries” is a primary issue. There is oversight and accountablility. When there is fraud, waste, and abuse, these problems are identified and corrected. Much is being achieved by contractors and the compaines they are working for. If you ask different groups of people what their most important problems are, their responses are remarkably similar. Regardless of the nationality of the members of the group, irrespective of where they come from, their language, or their backgrounds, they come up with the same issues. These “Global Issues” are:
Health
Food
Water
Energy
Education
Environment Protection
Security
Population Shift
Governance
Crime
I am trying to solve these issues in Colombia for 500,000 people. See http://home.comcast.net/~prigter/site/
I think you need to focus on solving these global issues rather than focusing on blaming others who are trying their best.
The large version is even more entertaining. I think it would make the basis for a good board game.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/December/091202/091203-engel-big-9a.jpg
Wow. Where is Edward Tufte when we really need him?
the acronym so much more reflective of actual strategy than the slides..
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