Every seminar these days has pictures of program activities. So, of course, I take more photos than I used to in the past. This time in Uganda, the tables turned.
We were visiting a rather spectacular farmer. I whipped out my phone and captured his raised beds and different varietals for posterity. Then we walked off to look at one of his other fields.
At some point during the walk a nice gentleman with a pretty serious camera and camera bag joined our little group. At the last field, the farmer asked us to all pose with him for a picture. When I asked him why, he pointed out that people come, visit his farm and take his picture but don’t send him a copy. He wanted one of us, for his scrapbook.
Markus Goldstein’s latest notes from the field.
I am adding this to my personal cache of Real World Development Indicators, alongside “percentage of subjects that refuse to answer your surveys because they are too busy” and “number of government officials who give white researchers a ‘who the hell are you?’ look and listen to their national economist colleagues for advice”.
Ethiopia, by the way, is doing spectacularly on all counts, and Uganda is catching up. Liberia worsens by the day.
Other RWDI candidates?
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Respondents asking if we can be facebook friends (before even asking my name).
Percentage of people in society who become self-conscious and come to recognition of their individual agency!
When governments can feed their own people without assistance from ngo’s.
When governments want to feed their own people without assistance from ngo’s.
REAL development indicators: “% of subjects that refuse to answer your surveys b/c they are too busy” http://t.co/R4Mj4g8MS1 via @cblatts
Percentage of people who actually prefer to stay in home country, rather than living abroad.
@cblatts #RWDI Number of times a president/PM/ruling party apologizes on national television or in public media
Real World Development Indicators by @cblatts – eg tall non-UN buildings, age of leader http://t.co/F3vd03C7VX ht @WhyDev” #lka enroute?
RT @AidanSeamus: Check comments of Real World Development Indicators by @cblatts – eg tall non-UN buildings, age of leader http://t.co/rBk5…
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
Check comments of Real World Development Indicators by @cblatts – eg tall non-UN buildings, age of leader http://t.co/rBk5Tv5cJc ht @WhyDev
Taking pictures with the subjects of your research… http://t.co/i17ZfB3jjA
A “real world #development indicator” for @cblatts: Increase in local #NGO websites written in local language(s). http://t.co/U4qtqi6wZ7
*Real* World Development Indicators from @cblatts. Like “% of people who refuse to do your survey b/c they’re busy.” http://t.co/mH87pe1kpF
RT @owenbarder: Real world development indicators – from @cblatts http://t.co/M3nryRHie6
V good. RT @owenbarder: Real world development indicators – from @cblatts http://t.co/mMbDV3L1x7
“I wondered when this would start to happen” http://t.co/6C8Eja6uA1
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
RT @owenbarder: Real world development indicators – from @cblatts http://t.co/M3nryRHie6
Real world development indicators – from @cblatts http://t.co/M3nryRHie6
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
Real world development indicators: when the people we’ve treated as objects become subjects &/or treat us as objects http://t.co/YhknBzXjmH
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
RT @jgershman: Real world development indicators http://t.co/Xc2qM8kryN
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
Great dev indicator: # of “Who the hell are you’s” given to researchers http://t.co/DktDtFrig4
@poverty_action new M&E metric?
@cblatts RWDI: Ambitious young woman (or man) has her sights set on starting a business, not working for a development NGO.
@cblatts RWDI: Vacationers at African luxury resorts are increasingly from other countries in Africa.
“Real” World Development Indicators http://t.co/GCSI5AXuXI
Real World Development Indicators: http://t.co/PDZ2jaVwnc When rural farmers take a photo of you HT @cblatts
RWDI: When the age of the President/Prime Minister is lower than average life expectancy.
RWDI: When the President/Prime Minister seeks medical treatment in own country.
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
Real world development indicators http://t.co/Xc2qM8kryN
Heh. When the tables are turned on development workers. From @cblatts http://t.co/jJLCkCuGfC
Far more telling than the others… RT @cblatts: the *real* world development indicators http://t.co/ckKejfllQ9
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
RWDI #1: The tallest building is not a government or United Nations building.
RWDI #2: There are no wrecked airplanes near the runway of the main airport.
How abt # of ppl flying on budget airlines? Two @FastJet round trips this month. Smooth skies all the way. http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/Business/870-000-fly-Fastjet-in-two-years/-/1840414/2541138/-/13ai0r4/-/index.html #Tanzania
I wondered when this would start to happen: Every seminar these days has pictures of program activities. So, o… http://t.co/oXFkL7vv5e
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
@cblatts Yes! This is the conversation we’re not having, but must develop. #polisci #conflict #fieldresearch #globaldev
RT @cblatts: I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/SOFSozw1n0
So cool! RT I wondered when this would start to happen (or, the *real* world development indicators) http://t.co/08M9AUHbYx @cblatts