Enjoy every seconds, every minutes, every hours, every moments. We
learn, we play, we reflect, we share our thoughts and ideas. Everything goes in
balance. Salute with friends who are able to balance things out, party,
dancing, but they're very great and clever in discussion.
The discussion today we learn about the shape of government systems.
We were divided into groups and has to explain about theocracy, technocracy,
democracy, oligarchy, timocracy, dictators, and so on. This topic is very
interesting. We enjoyed our session. For me, it is such a precious time to
know, a lot of systems of governments. It opened my mind because each forms of
system has its own strength and weakness. Maybe you can find the best one, maybe not,
because we’re learning it, we’re looking for some advantages and disadvatages
if a country applied this system.
my group explained about theocracy and technocracy
Slava, Hazal, Anja, Louise, me
in the break time with Karla, Lupe, and Dala
buenas tardes ISFITers *Latin America mode on
I totally forgot today is Sunday. Fortunately, Michael, our workshop
leader showed me the church (not really far from StudenterSamfundet) Firstly, I’m
afraid to ask because I didn’t want people know that. And luckily, we’ll go together for the mass! What a
beautiful night! Even though I was very far away from my parents and my
family, there’s still someone who accompany me. Thanks so much God:)
The mass was great, we’re together with Trondheim Catholic community.
I met kak Aloy, Indonesian delegates who study in Finland. We’re together in mass. She's very nice. Grateful. The homily makes us "warm" this night. Michael became servant
for this mass. This is my first time going outside NTNU (because we’re only in class
and Studentersamfundet :) I was a little bit late for the plenary session
today. But, no problem, I’m surrounded by great people.
Plenary Session: Good
Governance
The Speaker today: Jonathan Saphiro, Richard J Battaglia, Sony Kapoor.
John Saphiro from World Bank opened with his sentences:
“Good governance is
about people and systems – the systems that allow people to participate in
their societies according to their abilities”
He explained World Bank program in fighting corruption. His
explanation makes me think, I was wrong. Sometimes, I thought in my mind that
WB didn’t concern with developing countries, they only make some programs which
had advantages for them. But, I was totally wrong. WB has some programs related
to anti corruption action.
“Do not expect it to
be done by the end of ISFiT, but you have the energy and the wherewithal to
make a change”, he continued.
Richard J Battaglia, the second speaker, said “Kids learn what's good and what's bad by the age of 5, why do leaders of
multinationals companies forget it?” He related his words to what’s
usually happened about cases of corruption with multinational companies.
Sony Kapoor, the last speaker, started his explanation,
“20 percent of us are
inclined to cheat, and 20 percent are not. 60 percent of the people will cheat
if they think others are cheating.”
Absolutely true!
We sometimes justify ourselves if we are cheating because we
see other people are doing that way.
He put his hope for us, for our generation. “We hope that tomorrow’s society is less
corrupt, and better governed. Everybody will benefit from that”, he
said.
“With development of technology, with cameras and
cellphones - everyone can be a police man who can help tackle corruption.” –
Sony Kapoor closed the session. Questions and answers with ISFIT participants.
What an inspiring session!
I truly believe that
everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a
purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay
attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be
afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.-Marla Gibbs
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