Sunday, June 10, 2007

Welcome Message


Dear well-wishers/friends of ujeli dot com,

Due to increasing popularity of web-based communities, online journals and internet based active participation/speaking out we have started a "Blog For Change" link on our ujeli site.Words are powerful weapons responsible for inspiration and action dating back centuries.With that in mind we decided to encourage our well-wishers, activists, participants, human-rights defenders, environmentalists, peace keepers and our team members express their views and experiences on our website making our lives and actions more meaningful and motivating factors for the aspired many who want to change this world for better.

Thanks to the internet ,we all can share our experiences, ideas, opinions, suggestions and personal opinions with each other thousand miles apart. Remember, how Ann Frank's diary still inspires countless to this day all over the world.

As we are aware of the fact that we share common goal and striving towards that direction in creating better tomorrow for generations to come. Through economic justice, peace, equality, respect for human dignity and shared responsibility.So friends thank you for sharing your experiences while in this battle field fighting against injustice, poverty, gender discrimination, illitracy, violence and ignorance while in Nepal or wherever you are in this planet. Thank you for making a difference.

Blog For Change

Basu Gautam
Executive Director
Renaissance Nepal.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

For our dear friends at ujeli dot com,

For our dear friends at ujeli dot com,

I. Overview
1. The Global Perspective

Public Administration is as old as civilization, and equally diverse. - One would think: The Mandarin administered an empire from the Sunda Strait into Siberia; Rom's decadence was bound to collapse; the Maya's and the Aztec couldn't organize themselves to wage war against the European thieves. The examples of administrations that maintained a regime for a certain period of time and space, and then failed a state are numerous.

However, we do not expect to find a myriad of different forms of administration of the state and public in the world today. Public administration lies at the heart of the neo-liberal belief that its superiority prevails over other approaches, methods and goals. As such, it is used as a justification for neo-liberal theory. Never mind the circularity of the argument.

Convergence explains satisfactory that public administrations are meant to develop according to the publics' changing needs, no matter what limited role the public plays in the state, and are induced by the homogenization of the global environment, no matter how much more complex and technical public administration has come to be.

Five-year plans, development plans, have become associated with Leninism and the Soviet Union. Conservatives have met the progressive challenge with objection to any kind of planning all together. Nevertheless, all emerging 3rd World countries in the post-WWII era embraced planning and public administration.

In those days, through progressively participatory approaches to international relations, public administration entered the global stage as a euphemism for the increasing bureaucracy.

However, the main break-through for public administration, globally, has been the dismiss of the Soviet empire, which, on the one hand, released an enormous knowledge base on public administration into the multiplying forces of the free market economy; on the other hand, it negotiated a number of principles into the unipolar political mainstream. As such, it sat at the table during Germany's reunification, and was invited by Clinton to join the G8.

International Organisations, governmental and non-governmental, are the flag-bearers of this New Bureaucratism. They are created by the state's bureaucracy to fix problems that politicians don't want to touch. In their statutory limitations they are apolitical disallowing them from working on the political level. Instead, they go to the state bureaucracy and find there beloved colleagues fighting against their political superiors - as in Malaysia of the early 80s when Mahatir degraded the civil service.

Public Administration is as old as civilization. Every leader has a faggot, and every form of social organization requires a leader, as can be observed with the chimpanzees.

But there is only one way for public administration in the world today. The neo-liberal postulate of efficiency in international affairs has done away with perceived irreconcilably competing ideas of international relations and national standard setting.

To be continued next week with: 2. A Leftist Perspective,

Ciao & rex m-ji
Michael Ickes

Monday, June 4, 2007

Great Job

Great Job Ujeli dot com. fair trade is a response to economic deprivation, illitracy, marginalization. It is time for change and I wish you all the best.

Abhaya Joshi

Human Rights Defender

Dear promoters of Ujeli dot com

Dear promoters of Ujeli dot com:
Ethical trade practice is the demand of the day if we wish to envision poverty free world. By shedding light on the global issues like fair-trade, workers exploitation, exclusion of the dis-advantagedat the grass-roots and causes of economic disparity I believe ujeli dot com is sharp advocacy tool for better tomorrow.I admire your vision, mission and determination.

There's miles to go! Nonetheless, it's a great start.

Dr. Gopal Krishna Siwakoti

President

INHURED INTERNATIONAL [Int'l Institute for Human Rights, Environment & Development]

Secretary General

Human Rights Home

Secretary General

National Election Observation Committee

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Article

Dear friends at Ujeli.com,

Great initiative. Fair trade, as supposed to the so-called 'free trade' model, has become an important development tool of many disadvantaged communities around the world. It empowers them to take their future into their hands. Many rural communities in Nepal—ravaged by the conflict, and alienated by governance, basic access to resources, education, health services as well as the intrinsic isolation given Nepal's wrinkled geography—rely in fair trade initiatives like this one to meet their basic needs. Economic justice is a right. So congratulations Ujeli.com. I wish you success in your future endeavors. And to those outside Nepal: Make dreams come true.



Muchos saludos,

Daniela Ponce