One of the World's Leading Lights in Global Development _ The relative newcomer Bill Gates

“Humanities greatest advances are not in it’s discoveries - but in how those discoveries are used to reduce inequity” Quote by Bill Gates in "Grand Challenges in Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"[link above-html].

Although the above link does not quote the "corollary", I am sure that Bill would be the first to agree that many of the applications, any systems approaches implied by his quote, depends greatly on discoveries great and small, witness the Foundations strong board of Scientific Consultants.

Global Development fuelled by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & I both share a strong interest (& investment) in Libraries. In my case, like many of my fellow Scots, this is an almost a "lifelong" involvement. Could it be genetic; Alexander...a bit pretentious, but not exaggerated, such is my own personal attachment, especially to public or public oriented libraries. Much more likely, this is a cultural and historical trait, I like to feel a Scottish Hallmark. Scotland has been a haven for refugees since the time of period of Enlightenment, in Economics, Philosophy,Religion-Theology and last but not least in Science, Technology & Engineering. It is heartening to know that this tradition has been upheld to a large extent in North America with her famous libraries and know in the Internet Age, by such initiatives as "The Wayback Machine" , Wikipedia etc. Currently all North America,USA in fact, does not appear to share Bill Gates' philosophy nor follow his lead, could I be wrong? There is a lot to be said in favout of Bill's approach as quoted, n'est ce pas.

INNOVATION -THE WORTHWHILE PROJECT-Conversational styled, Review of Science's Powerful Tool "The Experimental Method" in Politics and The Humanities

As one of my more original and I feel better papers, I feel it fitting to bring the readers attention again (& again!) to this earlier work, first published (2004) on ChemWeb and still available on their archive. A full post is available to read and copy (with proper reference to the author, yours truly, of course). It is available on my blog "Conversations on Innovations" at the following Link

I do hope you enjoy reading My Published Paper-Free Online Link
as much as I enjoyed writing it, and look forward to your "comments and questions"

Sincerely

Historical note on my blog experience and evolution

"This above all -to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night, the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

My web-logs began with a website-8 personal pages, offered by Orange.fr. Then followed my 1st Blog effort, thanks to Google's Blogger. Initially I had little idea as to the proper focus to bring to my blog. Sustainable development, climate change, my professional evolution, as a process metallurgist in high temperature physical-chemistry a very masculine notion of one's self had taken me far from another facet of one's "self." My natural but mixed instinct for nature, ingrained by my countryish, small industrial, seaside- town, birth place. A visit to my daughter in the French Antilles-Guadeloupe consolidated my already; ecological, environmental, christian-social-conscience, tendency. I chose two intimately related "World Changing" concepts: Firstly Conversations" & secondly it's Scientific, Technical and Engineering corollary "Innovation." The width of ad hoc themes which crop-up, within such a self-imposed, but extremely open mandate led me to set-up various more dedicated blogs, sites, or pages and what have you. In these first two sites although references to management, economy, leadership are often implied, they tend to take second place to my more scientific (invention motor) and technical inclinations. Herein, I shall make some attempt to correct previous bias. As the reader may have seen, I started these pages with my first motivating posts copied from my "Conversations" blog. I shall reproduce my paper, first published on ChemWeb, on the Job seeker seen as a Project Manager and I shall reference the last few posts strongly management related, on climate change from the Financial Times, The Economist, Nature, and one of the Big Five Management Services-Accountancy firms, KPMG. Hopefully I shall remain focused and relevant, without being overly pedantic, retaining humour and perhaps some typically human zany creativity!