Welcome, Alanagh Recreant!

I thought about this one a lot and looked at all the links provided to the websites and social innovators. There is one person that stood out for me this year, and whose thinking resonates so well with my own heart on development and innovation in Africa that I cannot imagine her name not coming up.



I cannot remember when I first read about Mariéme Jamme - I think it may have been a simple 140-character retweet from a mutual friend from… Continue

Still need to choose the social innovation hero I want to shadow.
However, I am thinking about it a lot.

I love Evoke.

Too often in development work we assume too much too quickly. We open our ears to too many and close our minds to those who are different and unresourced or not influential. There is much value in 'listening to the right people' - mostly by just BEING in their presence and observing.



The skills of observation, appreciative enquiry and (simply) the ability to be silent should never be underestimated in development before attempting to change what one does not fully comprehend. In… Continue