You know what the funny thing about blogs is? You can’t plan them ahead, but if you don’t plan them they just bleed to death. At least, that’s our experience. Do you think web2.0 stuff creates new opportunities? That by using web2.0 tools, you’ll…

I was recently reminded of an older debate we used to have during my anthropology studies, a debate about the MDGs. Actually, not an old debate at all, but rather a never ending one, as was shown during this month’s summit on the MDGs, with lively…

Greetings from the Global South. South Africa, more specifically. Rural northeastern South Africa, next to the Kruger National Park, if you’ve got a map handy. A former Capetonian, I’m an infant rural inhabiter. I’ve hardly turned the soil – let a…

What did you do today?I wrote a text and did some editing. What is the text about?The text is a sort of guideline for organizations on how to deal with knowledge. Do they not know how to deal with knowledge?Well… I guess they do. But maybe I know…

Just before sitting down to write this blog post, a news website showed me a small article about the inability of Dutch development organizations to hire talent. Hiring talent, which in the hiring-of-staff world of course means: hire young and gif…

Okay, so I am not that much into the whole development thingy right now – mostly working with large business in the maritime industry. This looks like an entirely different branch, but the main difference is that people design ships instead of dev…

Among the issues picked up on by civil society in the run-up to the FIFA™ World Cup – make sure you don’t forget the trademark sign! – is human trafficking linked to the sex industry. Apparently, Germany faced problems of increased human trafficki…

A colleague who sits opposite to me leans back and sighs: ‘What a day…’. Like most of us, she’s spent the past few weeks drafting country context analyses and new programme descriptions for our co-funding application that will be submitted in the…

Brazil, Russia, India and China – the BRICs – are meeting in Brasilia this week to discuss matters of southern and global concern. This summit will be flanked by two other significant events, namely the IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) summit…

I was reading some of the posts of the Global green economics blog, and was triggered by the comments on indigenous knowledge. Many people see indigenous knowledge as a vital part for revitalizing our “western” vision on nature and the connection…