by Andreas Brandner | Sep 3, 2020 | Business, Statements
Kim Martins Co-Director, Mind Vision We live in a post-truth world in which ‘fake news’ can disrupt development work and devalue knowledge. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, are driven by algorithms that push ‘alternative facts’ and questionable information in...
by Andreas Brandner | Sep 1, 2020 | International Organisations, Statements
Johannes Schunter Innovation & Knowledge Specialist at United Nations Development Programme It is easy to hail knowledge as ultimate driver for change and key resource to achieve the SDGs. The sobering reality, however, is that more knowledge doesn’t per se make...
by Andreas Brandner | Sep 1, 2020 | Academic, Africa, Allgemein, Art and Culture, Asia, Australia, Business, Europe, Governmental, International Organisations, LAC, NGOs, North America, Stakeholder group, Statements
Leah de Haan Editorial Assistant, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, UK Local knowledge, and especially the complex and multiple ways it interacts with all our other knowledges, is key to how we comprehend the world. The tumultuous political...
by Andreas Brandner | Sep 1, 2020 | Academic, Africa, Allgemein, Art and Culture, Asia, Australia, Business, Europe, Governmental, International Organisations, LAC, NGOs, North America, Stakeholder group, Statements
Robert Chambers Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Suusex, UK The answer to the rhetorical question ‘Can We Know Better?’ is ‘Yes we can’. The history of humankind and of development is spectacularly littered with error. We desperately need to...
