Data, Data Analytics, ML, NLP, AI, and Efficiency Data, Data Analytics, ML, NLP, AI, and Efficiency Self-Directed Learning Author Omar Hopkins Published December 18, 2024 I recently changed my focus from water supply and sanitation to digital development projects. This is an exciting change for me, not so much because I am expert in this […]
Word of the day. Super-efficiency: Is a methodology to allow the relative evaluation of efficient DMUs. This is done by first using the full data set to determine efficient DMUs, then removing the DMU of interest recalculating the efficiencies and then calculating the target DMUs efficiency which will yield a result of greater than one […]
A very interesting article in Nature that was picked up the WaPo earlier this month on how “Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving.“ So true, both at the individual and institutional level. I am reminded of a story of someone’s mother who was taken to the hospital on death’s door. It turns out […]
www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/05/23/highway-funding-infrastructure/ This is a classic problem the world over – there exist more interest, and likely incentives to build new things rather than maintain what you have. Of course in the US this has partisan overtones. Politicians and engineers probably have pushes to do New rather than maintain even on an even dollar spend.
Many years ago I discovered the International Institute for Public Participation’s spectrum and was taken by its clarity of articulation of roles and responsibilities around public participation. This week I ran across a similar piece from ODI on stakeholder engagement in an adaptive management framework. Both of these are worth a read. A key question […]
I recently came across this very interesting paper on “Navigating adaptive approaches for development programmes: a guide for the uncertain” which reinforces much of my own understanding of the deficiency of the classic approach to designing and implementing development projects. My key takeaway from this article is that there are lots of approaches but they […]
I have spent a good portion of my professional career working in weakly matrixed organizations tasked with delivering projects. If you have ever worked in that context you know that leadership means having all the responsibility and none of the authority. Creating a high-functioning team focused on delivering a single, integrated, and impactful project that […]