Managing the 2005 agenda

Simon Maxwell

The challenge to researchers

• Be long-term and short-term . . .

• Proactive and reactive

2005: OUR DATE WITH DESTINY . . .

• High Level Panel on Threats etc . . .• Sachs Report and MDG Summit• Africa Commission• High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness• IDA renewal• G8 initiatives• EU (new Commission, new policy, financial

perspectives)• Hong Kong trade agenda• The IFF?• . . . and the new (European) meta-narrative

Getting the basics right

The story-teller

The networker

The engineer

The fixer

Bridges Across Boundaries

• Not ‘Microsoft’

• Not ‘Macdonalds’

But

• ‘Policy code-sharing’

An example: EDC 2010

The challenge to information providers

• Be long-term and short-term . . .

• Proactive and reactive

2005: OUR DATE WITH DESTINY . . .

• High Level Panel on Threats etc . . .• Sachs Report and MDG Summit• Africa Commission• High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness• IDA renewal• G8 initiatives• EU (new Commission, new policy, financial

perspectives)• Hong Kong trade agenda• The IFF?• . . . and the new (European) meta-narrative

The Grid