I agree with this assessment of the situation


>From: Ana Natale-Pereira <[log in to unmask]>
2006 05:48:23.0670 (UTC) FILETIME=[7F9B2960:01C682E3]
>
>My concern with the model is simple: it is dependent on the "middle
>person"....
>
>As such it has two inherent flows: first, the risk of the message being
>lost in translation.  What happens when the middle person is not so
>talented, or when the information from the community does not reach the
>researchers as it was planned, or when the research does not get the
>proper trasnlation?
>Second, and most importantly, it continues to breed the same useless
>culture: the researchers don't always "get it" about communities, and
>what communities need.  Only when the researchers are truly vested in
>the community, the community trust the academic partership, and both
>truly plan together,  is the resulting research useful to the people.
>This is a circular model, no middle person needed.
>
>ANA

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