A problem and the idea of transparency for development

Developing countries have major problems and their situation hasn´t changed in the last decades, besides exception like South Korea.
Social romanticism and development aid is and has been on the agenda of the global community´s, but it has failed , BECAUSE:

1. Financial aid helps the governmental elite of developing countries to maintain their power.
2. Criticism on developing countries does not reach the population. The population remains unknowing, which leads to no economic growth.
3. Humanitarian help “soothes the pain”, inhibits change and leads to exhorbitant overpopulation, which “eats up” every little piece of economic growth and inhibits development.
4. all “free” transfer of money and goods to the developing countries destroys local economic development and makes people dependant on development aid.

Without “economic development” the people neither have money, anything in their stomachs, nor a brighter future to look forward to.

Our Project wants to show an alternative to conventional development aid:
Transparency, information transfer, and education – a combination which leads to enlightenment and understanding. Ideally, this is all a society needs for sound development.
Countries like South Korea have demonstrated this path of development.

General transparency issues are:

• technology
• infrastructure
• mentality
• education
• business models
• corruption
• information management

The goal is to optimize the existing and creating something new.
The doorway is communication – transfer of knowledge!

The unique feature of our project is a one-month-stay in rural Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world – during the least pleasing time of year. This means 40°+ centigrade, constant rain, flooding, malaria, lack of food, contaminated water, etc.

New thinking through experiencing