"...an aspiration-based, systemic approach grounded in the understanding that to achieve lasting development, people must become empowered in all areas of their lives, including education, health, economic self-reliance, human rights, and civic participation. [...In the 1980s, Musheshe] and a cadre of the initial Ugandan leaders came to Boston to learn about systems thinking, mental models, and creating personal and shared visions. Rather than follow the more typical aid strategies of technical and humanitarian assistance, URDT’s founders challenged a core mental model. "The biggest obstacle to development in Uganda," says Musheshe, "was fatalism, people who believed that they could do nothing to shape their future. All the outside help in the world would not change this -- it only reinforced it."Having bold aspirations for prosperity and thinking systemically about development. Exactly right. I was especially pleased that Musheshe was able to meet my IDI colleague, MIT's Amy Smith, at his talk and afterwards we all swung by MIT's D-Lab space to see the many appropriate and empowering technologies our students are co-developing with partners in developing regions worldwide...
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