Re:Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate
by PeterStuer on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:17PM
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And even political parties. In Belgium the "Green" party (Groen) after the last election finally admitted they were not and never have been an environmental/ecological party after they grabbed control of the former real environment party (AGALEV) in 2003. They successfully bamboozled the green vote just by semantically squatting the name for 16 years.
Never trust a name, as more often than not it just has been hijacked by the most powerful/lucky marketing group.
We notice one consistent thing: these purpose of organizations/institutions isn't as simple as "serve the best for the native population that they are supposed to save from natural/economic/humanitarian disaster". The need (say, for regional/program directors) to find the next funding to keep the project going trumps EVERY OTHER altruistic purpose. Also, these program directors don't stay for longer than 2-3 years (let alone getting to know the native population they are trying to help) and most of them are always trying to get in on the next action/conflict in another country, and/or to simply move to a better pasture (a more developed country). The management in these non-profit orgs--such as save the children, world vision, UNICEF--are always whitewashed (I do not intend this to come out negatively, but have to keep it real here) and they rarely promote native workers to have a say in things that matter (although native workers are the ones who have to do the day-to-day, on-the-field hard work). On Facebook, there has been a growing resentment by native workers toward these 'foreigners of ruling hierarchy' that work for non-profits (while taking up most of the salary+benefits and wasting donation money). I don't know how far it will go and am interested to see it out.