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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Citizen or Stakeholder: What’s the Difference?
Engaged stakeholders can be key to addressing specific problems in their community. But it is engaged citizens that are agents of transformative change in the community, making the solutions sustainable. Community development efforts usually focus on the most visible problems such … Continue reading
Using An African Tradition to Build Civic Engagement
The theme of this blogsite is “Sustainable development by maximizing stakeholder engagement.” This theme maintains the idea that in order for solutions to be sustainable, as many stakeholders as possible must be involved. In other words, the greater the engagement of … Continue reading
The Embargo and Havana’s Colony, New Orleans
Once France established New Orleans in 1718, her colonization of the territory was, as described by author Ned Sublette, “halfhearted and brief”. Only 44 years later, in the Treaty of Fontainebleu of 1762, France’s King Louis IV secretly gave New … Continue reading
Congratulations Airbnb Cuba!
A smart business move with a good public diplomacy result. Continue reading
The Caribbean Institute for Sustainable Development 