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This conference brought together a group of professionals to exchange views among themselves and with the DCID faculty and student audience on their organizations' perception on innovation, their reliance on innovation, the need for collaborative efforts in international development and their vision for global innovation in the future. Panelists were Gary Gereffi, Director, The Center of Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University; Phil Psilos, Senior Economic Growth Specialist, RTI International; Rodney Maddox, Deputy Secretary of State, North Carolina; and Anthony Lewitt, Program Director, Rational Cloud Development, IBM Corporation, with MIDP Professor Jerry VanSant as moderator.
Panelists highlighted how problems can be solved by bringing together professionals from different disciplines, the potential benefits of sharing an innovation with others, how a minor research project undertaken for altruistic reasons can lead to a major new line of business, the importance of collaborating with the end-user to achieve success, and the exceptional potential of cell-phone technology to revolutionize service delivery (e.g. in agriculture or health) to rural areas of developing countries.
The conference was the brainchild of MIDP students Chris Ammon (US), Abeer Dagestani (Iraq) and Ignacio Torres (Chile) for their seminar on Innovative Policies led by MIDP Professor Rosemary Fernholz.
Featured Members: Rosemary M. Fernholz of Duke Center for International Development; Jerry C. VanSant of Duke Center for International Development
Keywords: MIDP, Fellows, Panel, Innovation, Policy
The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies held their 2011 conference February 10-12 at Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Six DCID faculty members and students participated in panels on Saturday afternoon.
The panel entitled Contemporary Struggles and Strategies to Reduce Inequalities in Latin America featured
Fernando Fernholz, Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Trends and Prospects: Measurable result in inequality reduction for the last two decades
Aldo Perfetto, Rotary Fellow; The case of the Venezuelan Cooperative Development Model
Ignacio Torres, MIDP Fellow; Accion Emprendedora Project in Chile
Eduardo da Costa, Rotary Fellow; Brazil's Bolsa Familia Cash Transfer Program
Rosemary Fernholz, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturing Fellow in Public Policy; Prospects for Disadvantaged Groups: Indigenous Peoples
The panel entitled Brazil Social Mobility and Welfare: Politics and the Amazon Then and Now included
Daniel Glazier, MIDP Fellow; Defending the Amazon: Lessons in Leadership and Policy Advocacy from the Life of Chico Mendes [more, alt.] -- http://www.uncdukeconsortium.org/consortium_conference.html
Keywords: rotary, MIDP, fellows, Faculty, Presentations, Panels, Conferences