Ikea revoluciona la vida de los refugiados con su ’hogar’ eléctrico
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La compañía sueca desarrolla un refugio que mejorará la vida de los millones de desplazados por conflictos o desastres naturales.
Est-ce vraiment une bonne nouvelle?
▻http://www.intereconomia.com/noticias-gaceta/sociedad/ikea-revoluciona-vida-los-refugiados-su-hogar-electrico-20130626
@liotier : car j’ai très peu de confiance dans les fondations de grandes entreprises privées... et je n’aime pas que sur un projet si important on soit dépendant d’une multinationale telle que Ikea.
Tout dépends de la licence sous laquelle la Fondation Ikea publie son modèle - une licence libre voire le domaine public résolvent l’éventuel problème de dépendance.
Le travail d’une telle fondation a autant à voir avec l’humanisme qu’avec la propagande et avec l’optimisation fiscale... Mais ces deux derniers buts ne sont pas incompatibles avec le premier et ils se renforcent même mutuellement.
U.N. Refugee Agency Needs to Think Like a Business, Says IKEA Foundation
LONDON—The biggest corporate donor to the United Nations’ refugee agency has some advice for the humanitarian organization: Think more like a real business.
▻http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579364611946353996
IKEA Is Now Designing Housing for Refugee Camps
In an expansion beyond bookshelves and meatballs, IKEA will soon be furnishing refugee camps around the world.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is partnering with the Swedish furniture giant to help build refugee housing in areas of conflict. The charitable wing of the company, the IKEA Foundation, has agreed to collaborate with UNHCR to design “flat pack” huts for the Kawergosk refugee camp in northern Iraq for Syrian refugees.
The new housing units are about twice the size of the typical UNHCR tent, equipped with insulated walls, solar panels, and private rooms. They take about four hours to assemble with the requisite illustrated instruction manual, and look somewhat like a sterile garden shed.
“The huts were tested in Ethiopia and proved to be very successful,” said Olivier Delarue, a senior advisor for UNHCR Innovation, who has a pivotal role in the partnership. “Refugees have been very happy about the living conditions because they were designed with their feedback and 60 years of UNHCR experience,” he said.
In a video produced by the IKEA Foundation that shows how to assemble the housing unit, an engineer explains: “It is like an IKEA bookshelf, easy to be transported and set up in the field.”
▻https://news.vice.com/articles/ikea-is-now-designing-housing-for-refugee-camps
How IKEA and Innovation Help Refugees in Iraq
When looking for solutions to humanity’s problems, conservatives and libertarians tend to prefer turning first to free markets rather than government. The reason for such a preference is often misunderstood, and can be difficult to explain since it appears paradoxical: free markets are often better at serving human needs than governments because free markets make it easier to fail.
▻http://blog.acton.org/archives/66384-innovation-ikea-helping-iraqi-refugees.html
