Trucano won the award for best failure at a recent Failfare gathering at the World Bank that was co-hosted by MobileActive. Earlier I blogged about the product pileup of things the aid industry invents that people don't want. Events like this at the World Bank are encouraging, because talking about failure is the first step toward not making the same mistakes again and again.“We dump hardware down and hope magic will happen,” said Michael Trucano, senior information and education specialist at the World Bank, whose offering to FailFaire was a list of the 10 worst practices he had encountered in his job.
The full story, by Stephanie Strom in the NYTimes, is here. Trucano's own account, with many insights, is here. A very nice post by the World Bank's Aleem Walji is at the Development Marketplace blog.
