[Mitworld] Oxfam's Raymond Offenheiser on Haiti, Alejandro Toledo on Democracy

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 45 |  June 30, 2010

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>From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy Challenges
April 21, 2010

As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the 
survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, Oxfam’s Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will 
ultimately be “crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and 
rehabilitation by the Haitian people and for the Haitian nation—distributed leadership.” 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/779

Speaker:
Raymond Offenheiser
President, Oxfam America


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"I don’t think, in all those years, I’ve witnessed something as dramatic as what we are facing 
  today in Haiti. It’s an extraordinary situation—extraordinarily dramatic in terms of the levels 
  of suffering faced by the Haitian people and extraordinarily dramatic in terms of the physical 
  destruction that’s taken place in a major urban area and a major capital city in our hemisphere."
-Raymond Offenheiser

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The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy
May 3, 2010

Alejandro Toledo has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru 
in 2006. In his home country, he embodied the possibility of transformation, having risen from 
poverty in an Andean village to top political power, where he initiated a process of economic 
and social change for Peru. Now he serves as a kind of roving ambassador on behalf of the most 
deprived populations in Latin America. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/783

Speaker:
Alejandro Toledo
President of Peru, 2001-2006President, Global Center for Development and Democracy


Event Host:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship

"Political democracy makes absolutely no sense if this is not accompanied by social and economic 
democracy. If political democracy doesn’t deliver concrete results in terms of jobs and decent 
income or access to basic social needs, then people in the world lose faith in democracy."
-Alejandro Toledo

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In The Pipeline:

Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, and Beyond

Presented By:
HyperStudio

Speaker:
Ben Shneiderman
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland

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