This week I had the opportunity to speak with Lady Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. It was a small discussion, only about 5 of us and we spoke about our hopes for Haiti in terms of Education, Energy and Environment. It's hard, though. It's hard to figure out how to deploy technology that could help Haiti take a giant leap forward in terms of education, energy or communication. How can we connect Haiti to the world with new technologies when people have nothing to eat. Here is just the short list of things to do...
We need to:
Continue relief efforts: Provide tents, food, water, medical care
Focus on rebuilding and renewing Haiti:
Educate in innovative ways,
Add electricity generating capacity,
Strengthen the government,
Eradicate poverty,
Raise the minimum wage,
Root our disease,
Focus on economic development,
Rebuild the infrastructure,
Reforest the country,
among so many other tasks.
So where do we begin? Where do we place the first stake in the ground? How do we know that if we have started in the right place and what do we displace when we add a new gizmo, a new method, a new seed?
These are just a few of the questions racing around my head each day as I attend these meetings, learn about new technologies and innovative development ideas. But, as I consider each option, I continue to land in the same place: What does Haiti want its future to be and who gets to decide?
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