Cultivating Intelligence

Coming out of a frustration with the apparent capacity for spinning top in mud which is demonstrated in many countries, I began to consider that it was a lack of intelligence that was at the root of the stasis. I began to examine ways in which this intelligence could be cultivated.

I was not unaware of the problems to be faced, and that more than in any other sector, the exercise of policy making for national information management presented at once the greatest complexity and irony. Policy makers, operating in a state of imperfect knowledge would have to attempt to plot the course to that which was unknown - almost perfect knowledge - and the ability or intelligence to translate this into sustainable evolution.

All policies are value-oriented (De Greene 1993:9) and follow the values (and limitations) of those responsible for their conceptualization and implementation. And as they are often made in the face of ignorance about the real dynamics of the system, how can policy makers overcome this paradox of attempting to formulate the policy when the requisite knowledge for its formulation lies in the distant future and is actually the goal of the policy?

To summarize, "How can the chicken begin to redesign the egg which will improve the chicken?"

DE GREENE, Kenyon B. (Ed.) (1993). A systems-based approach to policymaking. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
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