Partnership with Engineers without borders

I like EWB and their work is great. They also have, as you say, commonalities with what we do. I would like to see the two communities working together in some capacity at some time. However, as far as my understanding of "strategy" I don't think we should make recommendations to such a precise level of specificity. I think a strategic recommendation needs to be broader like "alliance with aid organisations" rather than "alliance with xyz specific organisation".

Do you think you can broaden out your suggestion to a more strategic-level thing?

I think the main idea is to make partnership with organisations that has a good understanding of the importance of knowledge, is technicaly oriented, has a large possible volunteer basis and that currently are using technological solutions to problems in developing countries. But I also think that it is important to list and contact possible candidates as early as possible to have something concrete to work with.

yes, for implementing any such partnership it would be necessary to have a good working relationship and contacts and planning early on - but here at the strategy level we only need to "recommend the broad direction" and, if that recommendation is accepted, then the people actually implementing it would work out the specifics at that time. It would be inappropriate for a strategic recommendation to be proscriptive to the level of saying we should ally with a specific organisation or on a specific project.