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October 1, 2012

Gwendolyn N Akoto, NYU Global Affairs Master's Program , (6)

I really enjoyed this perspective on creating new goals to eliminate global poverty. Most importantly it allows the community of all impoverished nations to use their first hand experience to voice the concerns that impact their daily living. Whenever talks of poverty arise the social economic gaps between developed and undeveloped countries are always the most evident, for example polices or aid that may be given to help the undeveloped but yet fails to take into account issues of corruption becomes ineffective because of the misuse of an unstable government. Therefore in order to eliminate such gaps Mr. Drummond's project is definitely beneficial. However, I believe that one of the challenges of this approach is time frame, with all the eliminates involved such as conducting surveys, media involvement, social networking, seeking government participation and etc, what would be considered as an realistic time frame for this project?

October 1, 2012

Bintia Princesse Boure, International Relations Learning & Research Community taught by Professor Mazzucelli at New York University, (4)

The statistical improvement in poverty rates that this video presents is very interesting, and some might even deem it unrealistic and unachievable. I put forth that one of the major challenges with seeing such improvements in the global sphere as a whole will be the un-altrustic self interests mannerisms many states may inhibit because of the idea that poverty rates are not are high in their particular nation. In addition I think that other challenges that my exist is the fact that although some seek to move away from corruption as mentioned in the video, sadly, many world leaders still remain corrupt. Because of this, there remains situations here citizens of a country may suffer from high poverty and death rates, but their respective leader may not find their survival of much importance. Or on the other hand, a situation may exist where a nation does not have a particular interest in poorer nations and hence don't find it imperative to lash onto a poverty reduction idea. I guess what I am trying to say is that the most important part that one must figure out if we truly want to see such a plan is how we will executive it and make it appealing to the world as a whole?

December 11, 2012

Ana Maria Defillo, New York University's Center for Global Affairs , (5)

Crowdsourcing is a great tool to understand the complex realities of issues like global poverty. It's a new tool to implement a "bottoms up" approach in the development of relevant policies. It provides the population that is directly affected by the issue, in this case poverty, to voice their concerns, ideas, solutions to name a few. In theory, it is also supposed to create a democratic system of information gathering. I think the information provided by those affected are crucial to ending global poverty. However, as Gwendolyn pointed out, the challenge behind this method is time and also access to the tools such as social networking sites, the internet, cell phones etc.