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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/10/medecins-sans-frontieres-institutionally-racist-medical-charity-colonialism-white-supremacy-msf
Interesting link. I work for a different NGO that operates in the same sphere. We have been focusing on de-colonising the organisation. An example of this Central IT is now run from Nairobi instead of the UK. This has been very successful, I arrived at this job having a reasonable amouof experience working with an building global data networks and I’m ashamed to say how surprised I was that the deployments run from Kenya have been quicker and cheaper (and more up to date) than anything I had previously seen.
Fighting Inequality is one of our primary goals and so we have a lot on internal debate and forums for looking at our own inherent systemic racism and trying to address that.
What I read about in MSF is not surprising, combining the intent of the organisation with the egos of the type of people that gravitate towards medicine on top of the imperial baggage that stems from western society’s creation myth.
I see something similar in my own organisation and wonder how difficult it would be to replace the integral bias in a typical British company.