Jaimie Grant
@jaimiegrant.bsky.social
Has the UN's embrace of innovation approaches accelerated the privatization of public decision-making and a technocratic capture of development policy? jaimie.ghost.io/8-lessons-fr...
8 Lessons from the UN's Innovation Journey
Over the past decade or so, innovation and systems thinking have been embedded around the UN development system. From labs to foresight to systems change, nearly every major agency has adopted framewo...
jaimie.ghost.io
June 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Has the UN's embrace of innovation approaches accelerated the privatization of public decision-making and a technocratic capture of development policy? jaimie.ghost.io/8-lessons-fr...
Trade wars, scrambles for strategic minerals and militarization are swirling beneath the melting ice caps.
The Arctic needs the UN to look up.
New post: jaimie.ghost.io/polar-vortex/
The Arctic needs the UN to look up.
New post: jaimie.ghost.io/polar-vortex/
Polar Vortex
The Arctic climate warms four times faster than the global average. Summer sea ice extent has plummeted by roughly 30% over the past 30 years, and up to 90% of the oldest, thickest ice has vanished. T...
jaimie.ghost.io
April 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trade wars, scrambles for strategic minerals and militarization are swirling beneath the melting ice caps.
The Arctic needs the UN to look up.
New post: jaimie.ghost.io/polar-vortex/
The Arctic needs the UN to look up.
New post: jaimie.ghost.io/polar-vortex/
If the UN is going to survive it has to relearn two things
1. how to operate across chaotic, converging systems
2. how to speak
jaimie.ghost.io/mode-shiftin...
1. how to operate across chaotic, converging systems
2. how to speak
jaimie.ghost.io/mode-shiftin...
Mode-shifting / code-switching
Beneath the immediate dismantling of aid agencies and slashing of multilateral budgets, the UN is facing deeper, existential questions from a fracturing international system. Messier, overlapping cris...
jaimie.ghost.io
March 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If the UN is going to survive it has to relearn two things
1. how to operate across chaotic, converging systems
2. how to speak
jaimie.ghost.io/mode-shiftin...
1. how to operate across chaotic, converging systems
2. how to speak
jaimie.ghost.io/mode-shiftin...
The UN needs more than 'reform' to survive now. Will it channel what remains of international cooperation in trade, security and development into a system that meets countries and people where they are: a messy, cynical, competitive and disturbing world?
New blog: jaimie.ghost.io/into-the-mul...
New blog: jaimie.ghost.io/into-the-mul...
Into the multiplex
At the UN General Assembly in late February, on the anniversary of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. voted against a Europe-led resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity, proposin...
jaimie.ghost.io
March 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The UN needs more than 'reform' to survive now. Will it channel what remains of international cooperation in trade, security and development into a system that meets countries and people where they are: a messy, cynical, competitive and disturbing world?
New blog: jaimie.ghost.io/into-the-mul...
New blog: jaimie.ghost.io/into-the-mul...
Here's the US rejecting and denouncing the Sustainable Development Goals in the UN General Assembly this week
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Here's the US rejecting and denouncing the Sustainable Development Goals in the UN General Assembly this week