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As the Development Agenda morphs into an innovative, disruptive, cognitive profusion of information (via web-based diffusion and syndication), persuasion itself has often led to convergence and crisis. On the one hand, copyright, privacy and the digital divide are rendered as symptomatic issues in a larger, much more complex framework. On the other, ideals of empowerment (some of which are outlined deterministically as the S4G themes) seem to be gradually taking hold in stakeholder spheres. (Generalizations are made here in the certainty that extrapolations are successfully underway.)
Which empowerment ideal do I subscribe to? Empowerment itself. Work areas have taught me about a gamut of contemporary issues. These are fundamental to the sustainable development of Nepal. Environmental degradation has plagued us for many decades. Rights-based thinking, too, has been relegated to what is referred to as donor-driven promises. A campaign brings us to an important and real issue and leaves us wondering if it will run the life cycle it needs.
"The normative crisis of the Information Society" has also, organically, sought a new resolution and a reorientation (for both for-profit and non-profit sectors). My Twitter stream is a success story in and of itself. A best practice replication takes a far more considered approach. From new media perspectives on society, people and places to Development programming and outreach of amazing depth, I still learn through the stream and contemporaneity too is continually served! Distributive stopgaps? If the signal towers continue to stand firm (as they do today), the progressive potential of empowerment, and the ideals therein, must lead kindly on.
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