| | | |
Transparency and Accountability Network
Community Analytics (CA)
This child in Eastern Sudan is severely malnourished. In good times this is a harsh
environment, but with conflict the situation is made dramatically worse. |
The Church in Africa is engaged in pastoral care, including looking after AIDS orphans. The
Carpenters Kid's program in Tanzania is a very good initiative helping over 2,000 children |
Kibera has grown over the past thirty years from a small community to one that now has a population exceeding 1 million. |
|
|
Welcome
There is a lot wrong ... a lot that needs fixing! There is
poverty, hunger, disease, war, violence, injustice ...
Why? How? What is wrong?
The problem is systemic ... not one thing, but thousands of things!
What can a person do about it?
What is Tr-Ac-Net doing?
Because the systemic problems are very deep rooted, the needed change is not easy.
Too much that looks like change is merely a veneer that hides the ongoing problems.
It is only excellence in socio-economic metrics that will enable the underlying root
causes to be addressed.
|
|
Easy Visit
Tr-Ac-Net's main initiative centers around the development and deployment of
Community Analytics (CA).
There are several elements:
1 ... a system for data acquisition
2 ... a system for organizing data so that it means something
3 ... a database that stores data and gives access to analysis
4 ... collaboration with economic actors
5 ... collaboration with media
Is it possible to have meaningful success? We believe so ... the technology to do all of this is
available ... and there are enough good people and supporters to make this a great success.
|
Much information ... mostly unused!
There is a huge amount of information about relief and development, but it does not
inform public policy, nor help a person do something useful. Global leadership seems
to be concerned with wealth and power for an established elite ... and much less with
solving problems that have been keeping much of the world destitute.
Tr-Ac-Net is developing a web based vehicle to get data together to serve the need for performance
metrics for socio-economic progress. The basics of this initiative are that the cost
should be low ... near zero ... and the value should be, as MasterCard might say ... priceless.
This can be a dream come true for billions whose potential is constrained by a system that
is controlled by people and
organizations with wealth and power ... and a nightmare for those whose wealth and power
is based on being the world's best at spin and misinformation.
|
|
Transparency
The need for transparency has been on the agenda for ever ... but it has been rare for
leadership to embrace it. This era is no different. While there is talk about the need
for transparency, there are few organizations that do much about it. Worse, a large
amount of information is merely designed to send a message ... little allows a transparent
view of what is actually going on.
Accountability
Without transparency, accountability is difficult, if not impossible. Decision makers have
a virtual free hand to make decisions with or without taking into consideration the public
interest ... knowing full well that there will be little or no accounting for performance
and therefore no accountability.
What is so serious is that few of the institutions that the public relies on behave in the
public interest, and hardly anyone is paying attention ... and certainly not the leadership.
|
|
Community Analytics
The development and deployment of Community Analytics (CA)is a Tr-Ac-Net initiative
to change the the prevailing socio-economic paradigm using a very simple but powerful tool.
CA is a modified version of business accountancy and uses the basic concepts
of accountancy, but with
a focus on community as the reporting entity rather than an organization. CA
embraces not only
the money flow values that result in corporate profit, but also value flows that have impact
on society and the quality of life.
Sports' fans know how a game changes when the statistics and the scoring system are changed.
The same goes for the corporate business community that structures how it organizes its
affairs around rules for reporting and the calculation of taxes. Why not also in the area
of socio-economic impact ... Do the reporting and see how all the participants respond.
|
| | |
Transparency
The ability for the public to see and understand what is going on.
Accountability
The process that makes people responsible for the impact of their actions.
Network
People around the world committed to faster, peaceful socio-economic progress.
Community Analytics (CA)
A system of score-keeping that applies value analysis to society as a whole.
CA is being deployed as fast as possible so
that decision makers are held accountable and scarce resources are not wasted.
|
