Charity Wayua: A few ways to fix a government
Charity Wayua: Ideas para sanar a un gobierno
IBM's Charity Wayua is a research manager in Nairobi, Kenya, where she leads the company's public sector research team. Full bio
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to study biochemistry.
estudiar bioquímica.
prevalence of diseases like malaria,
de las enfermedades como la malaria
that would cure the sick.
para curarlas.
where I became a cancer researcher,
me hice investigadora de cáncer,
curar enfermedades,
to Kenya to do just that.
para dedicarme a eso.
esta terrible enfermedad
certainly a death sentence.
una muerte casi segura.
in a pharmaceutical company
en una farmacéutica
to a different kind of lab,
otra clase de laboratorio,
kind of patient --
person in my country;
ciudadano de mi país.
of governments are unhealthy today.
muchos gobiernos están enfermos.
of living index.
en el índice de calidad de vida.
as the entities that make it up.
como las entidades que la conforman.
put a Band-Aid in place
to an African country --
en un país africano,
building hospitals, digging wells --
hospitales o pozos de agua,
either weren't or couldn't provide
no querían o no podían brindar
Band-Aids can't fix,
no pueden arreglar,
where businesses feel secure
donde las empresas estén seguras
their businesses successfully.
un negocio exitoso,
property that they create.
que van a crear.
these necessary conditions
las condiciones necesarias
to quickly and easily set up shop.
pueden instalarse sin inconvenientes.
of income for themselves,
fuentes de ingreso para sí mismos,
a la economía
to fund public projects.
que financian las obras públicas.
son buenas para todos
of economic growth,
de crecimiento económico.
the "Ease of Doing Business Ranking,"
de "Facilidad para hacer negocios"
or difficult it is to start a business
es crear un negocio
in a country with an ailing government --
en un país con un gobierno débil
which is why in 2014,
por eso en 2014,
us to partner with him
y nos pidió colaboración
to jump-start business growth.
a impulsar el crecimiento empresarial.
in this World Bank ranking.
en el ranking del Banco Mundial.
en el puesto 136 de 189 países.
mathematicians, engineers
matemáticos, ingenieros
to cure the sickness
para curar la enfermedad
magnitud del gobierno,
all the way from the organs,
make a diagnosis.
from the President himself,
las órdenes del presidente,
of the scientific method:
de los métodos científicos:
who worked at government agencies,
que trabajaban en entes gubernamentales,
office, utilities company,
el registro de tierras y los servicios,
for registering companies,
de registrar empresas,
them as they served customers,
atendía a los clientes,
most of them were manual.
muchos de ellos manuales.
a lot of their previous paperwork
los trámites anteriores,
malfunctions had occurred
las disfunciones corporales
on the World Bank list.
de la lista del Banco Mundial.
se tardaba 72 días
to register their property,
registrara su propiedad,
en Nueva Zelanda,
on the World Bank list.
según el Banco Mundial.
a new electric connection.
una nueva conexión eléctrica.
to take you 125 days.
that would only take you 26 days.
solo se tardaba 26 días.
que ir a un juzgado
a dispute to enforce a contract,
por incumplimiento de contrato,
would take you 465 days.
tardaba 465 días.
of your claim in just fees --
solo en aranceles:
y tasas legales.
in an African country,
en un país africano,
must be corrupt to the bone.
deben ser corruptas hasta la médula.
so much corruption,
or get killed in the process.
o me matarían en el proceso.
in the classic sense:
en el sentido clásico:
acechan en la oscuridad
of their friends.
las manos de sus amigos.
sense of helplessness.
sentido de desesperanza.
employees felt helpless.
perdieron las esperanzas.
empowered to drive change.
de generar cambios.
estancada y sin esperanza,
in a bigger system.
un sistema más grande.
doesn't matter in driving change.
no cuenta para impulsar cambios.
you had to go through --
to find somebody to outsource it to,
tratar de tercerizarlo,
take care of that for you.
of it on your behalf --
lo resuelva para Uds.,
nobody was going to catch you.
que nadie se va a enterar.
something to work for you
algo que les dé resultado
is the beginning of corruption.
así empieza la corrupción.
we worked with had a shared vision
tuviera una visión compartida
is to remove staples
quitaba las grapas
at the attorney general's office,
de la fiscalía general
for serving business owners
a los empresarios
government services.
los servicios del gobierno.
were impacting our ability as a country
en la capacidad del país
y atraer inversiones.
and to attract investments.
everyone's role was vital.
todos eran esenciales.
a generar cambios
to implement changes
llevar a cabo los cambios
delivery of our country.
de servicios del país.
al 92 del ranking.
reforms we've been able to implement
las importantes reformas aplicadas
global reformers in the world
países reformistas del mundo
like a weight-loss program.
como un plan para bajar de peso.
of hard, grueling work at the gym,
fuerte y agotador en el gimnasio,
time to weigh yourself,
por primera vez,
this doesn't apply to you.
esto no rige para Uds.
you accessed a government service?
accedieron a un servicio público?
su licencia de conducir,
declaración de impuestos.
and global economy
es fácil
about transforming government.
en transformar al gobierno.
or to the thinking
al hecho o a la idea
some key government responsibilities
responsabilidades gubernamentales
y nos sentimos desamparados.
doesn't mean it's dying.
no significa que está moribundo.
of fixing our governments.
de corregir a nuestro gobierno.
is when healthy cells --
es que las células saludables,
to create some space
es crear un espacio donde
crezcan y prosperen.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Charity Wayua - Public sector researcherIBM's Charity Wayua is a research manager in Nairobi, Kenya, where she leads the company's public sector research team.
Why you should listen
Dr. Charity Wayua creates commercially viable innovative solutions to address inefficiencies in the delivery of government services with the aim of creating an environment where businesses thrive. Wayua and her team work closely with the government and private sector to co-create various public sector solutions that make the delivery of government services to businesses more efficient and effective. The World Bank ranked Kenya the third most reformed country on its "Ease of Doing Business" ranking two years in a row, moving up 44 places in rank in just two years in part due to the work of Wayua's team.
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