Charity Wayua: A few ways to fix a government
چریتی وایونا: چند راه برای اصلاح یک دولت
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.
prevalence of diseases like malaria,
that would cure the sick.
where I became a cancer researcher,
to Kenya to do just that.
certainly a death sentence.
in a pharmaceutical company
to a different kind of lab,
kind of patient --
person in my country;
of governments are unhealthy today.
of living index.
as the entities that make it up.
تشکیل دهنده آن سالم است.
put a Band-Aid in place
to an African country --
building hospitals, digging wells --
either weren't or couldn't provide
Band-Aids can't fix,
where businesses feel secure
their businesses successfully.
property that they create.
these necessary conditions
شرایط لازمی را ایجاد نماید
to quickly and easily set up shop.
کسب و کار رونق میگیرد.
of income for themselves,
جدید خود را میسازند،
to fund public projects.
پروژهای عمومی گرفته میشود.
of economic growth,
the "Ease of Doing Business Ranking,"
" میزان راحتی ایجاد مشاغل" دارد
or difficult it is to start a business
in a country with an ailing government --
با یک دولت بیمار
which is why in 2014,
به همین دلیل در ۲۰۱۴،
us to partner with him
درخواست همکاری کرد
to jump-start business growth.
in this World Bank ranking.
بانک جهانی باشد.
mathematicians, engineers
to cure the sickness
all the way from the organs,
make a diagnosis.
from the President himself,
of the scientific method:
who worked at government agencies,
دولت کار می کردند ملاقات کردیم
office, utilities company,
شرکتها ی خدماتی
for registering companies,
them as they served customers,
زیر نظر گرفتیم،
most of them were manual.
که اکثرا بصورت دستی بود.
a lot of their previous paperwork
کاغذ بازی ها را بررسی کردیم
malfunctions had occurred
درست کار نمیکند
on the World Bank list.
را داشته باشیم.
to register their property,
on the World Bank list.
a new electric connection.
to take you 125 days.
that would only take you 26 days.
اولفهرست هست ،تنها ۲۶ روز بطول میکشد.
a dispute to enforce a contract,
کمک بخواهید.
would take you 465 days.
۴۶۵ روز به طول میکشد.
of your claim in just fees --
in an African country,
must be corrupt to the bone.
so much corruption,
or get killed in the process.
in the classic sense:
کمین کرده باشند،
of their friends.
sense of helplessness.
بود.
employees felt helpless.
empowered to drive change.
in a bigger system.
درک نمیکنند.
doesn't matter in driving change.
این تغییرندارند.
you had to go through --
to find somebody to outsource it to,
که برای شما کار سازی کند،
take care of that for you.
of it on your behalf --
انجام بدهد،
nobody was going to catch you.
something to work for you
is the beginning of corruption.
we worked with had a shared vision
نسبت به کاری که میکردیم،
is to remove staples
جداکردن گیره های کاغذ
at the attorney general's office,
for serving business owners
صاحبان مشاغل بودند،
government services.
were impacting our ability as a country
اثر میگذارد
and to attract investments.
و جذب سرمایه.
everyone's role was vital.
نقش همه حیاتی بود،
to implement changes
delivery of our country.
تحت تاثیر قرار داد.
reforms we've been able to implement
در مدت زمان کوتاهی
global reformers in the world
like a weight-loss program.
کاهش وزن درنظر بگیرم.
of hard, grueling work at the gym,
و طاقت فرسا در باشگاه،
time to weigh yourself,
this doesn't apply to you.
در مورد شما صدق نمیکند.
you accessed a government service?
دسترسی داشتید کی بوده است؟
and global economy
about transforming government.
پشیمان بشوید.
or to the thinking
some key government responsibilities
doesn't mean it's dying.
of fixing our governments.
is when healthy cells --
سلول های سالم است--
to create some space
ایجاد مقداری فضا
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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