Indigenous
peoples
Cultural Survival
Inc. located near Harvard University in Cambridge is publishes a key
journal, the Cultural Survival Quarterly. Professor David Maybury-Lewis,
his wife Pia, their Director, Ian McIntosh, and a large group of
volunteers make this a key site. Browse the entire site for updates
on different events.
Staff members in The World Bank have an indigenous
peoples thematic group. Some items are not on this page.
You should also use their search engine and its knowledge bank. Some NGOs
are saying to be careful about using the knowledge bank as your only
source. They feel that material is filtered. Information that is critical
of the Bank or its members may have been redacted (taken out). Definitions
of indigenous people.
The World Bank has a social
development group.
Disclosure
Policy
for examination: The World
Bank Information Disclosure Policy (1994) and the World
Bank consultation preparing for its forthcoming revision. The Bank
Information Center (an NPO) has published its first
reactions on the web.
The Internet has
begun to play a vital role in the policy process. In 1997, I developed a method
for enhancing the quality of policy advice provided to agencies willing to seek
public feedback on draft policies. The result is the Development Policy Kiosk ( www.policykiosk.com).
The KIOSK has now successfully organized public comments on social and
environmental policies development being proposed by the World Bank Group and by
the US Overseas Private Development Corporation.
Hansenne, Michael. The
ILO, standard setting and globalization. Report of the Director-General to the International
Labour Conference 85th Session 1997.
The
Day of Two Noons.
Anonymous. Short description of the standardization of railroad time.
Please explore the world of
international standardization by beginning with the International
Organization for Standardization. Look at the organization
of the site. After you have a familiarity with its history and
structure, examine the Japanese Industrial
Standards Committee (JISC). The American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) provides an excellent place to
gain an overview of the standardization process and its organization.
Start skimming at
this page, and move forward by clicking the arrows at the bottom of
each page. Pay particular attention to ISO
9000 Quality Management and Environmental Management Standards (ISO 14001)
standards (explanations on most of the WEB pages).
Can you guess any of the other
international standard setting organizations? Of these, which is
involved in setting social development standards?
By this point, you should begin to get the
"big picture" on standards. To get an even clear "birds eye
view", I recommend the World
Standard Services Network offers a good place to grasp what
organizations are involved in international standards.
Michigan State University has been developing
research on agricultural standards.
Emerging Social Development Standards.
An example of setting definitions
on key concepts may be found in the cultural realm. Examine these to
become familiar with socio-cultural concepts. The International
Standards Committee of the Society for Applied Anthropology represent
the first international, professional social science association to focus
on international social development policy standards.
You may wish to examine the following
information mentioned in this lecture.
"The
Railroad Convention, recently in session, determined among other things to
have the clocks and watches in the United States set, run and regulated to
suit the convenience of their particular branch of business. It was a bold
stroke. To regulate the time of this Empire Republic of the World is an
undertaking of magnificent proportions. Railroad time is to be the time of
the future. The Sun is no longer to boss the job. People - 55,000,000 of
them - must eat, sleep and work as well as travel by railroad time. It is
a revolt, a rebellion. The sun will be requested to rise and set by
railroad time. The planets must, in the future, make their circuits by
such timetables as railroad magnates arrange." People
will have to marry by railroad time, and die by railroad time. Ministers
will be required to preach by railroad time - banks will open and close by
railroad time - in fact, the Railroad Convention has taken charge of the
time business, and the people may as well set about adjusting their
affairs in accordance with its decree. . . . We presume the sun, moon and
stars will make an attempt to ignore the orders of the Railroad
Convention, but they, too, will have to give in at last."
Quote from The Indianapolis Sentinel for November 21, 1883, had this
to say: