“NGOs that are really good and efficient should survive and grow, and those which really don’t add value and can’t be competitive should wind up.
‘‘You’re wasting money that could be applied to the poorest people in the world in a much more efficient way. Unless you can do it efficiently, I don’t think you should be in this business.

These words came back to me this morning, as I sat in a hospital corridor at 10.15, waiting to see the doctor for my 9.15 appointment. Privatisation, or at least, bringing the tenets of the private sector to bear on Ireland’s hospitals, looked like a very sensible argument this morning. Efficient, ruthless, performance-based management rather than a multi-layered, union-bound, hamstrung bureaucracy.  Denis O’Brien wrote well about it a few days back.

IN any case, the quote ain’t from Denis O’Brien, or Michael O’Leary, or any of their ilk. It’s from Cormac Lynch of Camara, an Irish charity that reconditions PCs and sends them, with instructors and instructions, to a variety of African countries, at a price that’s cheaper than the fabled $100 laptop.  The article’s below the fold, or just click below.

Charity in a PC World (August 3, 2008)

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