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Help people to help themselves
There were a lot of secrets mentioned in the blog, you have to think about. But the one that impressed me most were "Provide skills, not just finished technologies".
The first thing that came to my mind after reading this was a quote by Confucius:
"Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for life."
You can see it everywhere on earth or in the society that people try to help by giving finished solutions for problems. So often a certain problem is solved, but the situation itself doesn´t really improve.
To give a starving man somthing to eat solves the problem of being hungry but he will still be hungry the next days, when you don´t fight the reason.
It doesn´t make sense to built an infratructur without teaching the people how to use and receive it.
And it´s exactly the same for technologys of every describtions. Only when people have the skills to use the technologies, they can make the most of them to improve theier situation and develop the available technologies to solve future problems.
Consequently it is more important to give the necessary skills for improving a situation than just a technology that solves a single problem and thus help people to help themselves.
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Comment by Hannah on April 4, 2011 at 9:38pm
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I saw a doc**entary on TV and they almost said the same. They said that when we fight against poorness we should not give the people our clothes, food or things which we do not need. By giving those people our things for free, we are destroying the local market. Nobody will buy things from their own market because they will wait until they will get clothers, etc. for free,
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on April 9, 2011 at 9:55pm
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Gunter Pauli said back on 2009: What happens if you give a man a fish? you feed him for a day. BUT what happens of you teach a man to fish? Overfishing!!
Hence it is much more than just useful technology that is required for the current challenges that humankind is facing. In my opinion, the necessary skills include ancient knowledge.
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