The innovation conundrum

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When I started out trying to understand the complexities of international development well over 15 years ago, one thing struck me. The trick, I was often told, to increase chances of funding was to apply a liberal sprinkling of the words gender, scalable or sustainable into any project proposal. Donors apparently liked those words, however they were used. I’m beginning to wonder if the same thing is happening today with the word innovation. For organisations seeking to deploy technologies to put right social wrongs, innovation is the hottest date in town

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The innovation conundrum

Posted by Ken Banks on Nov 26 2012. Filed under Featured Content, Hub Selects, mHealth, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry