À qui la fondation #Gates rend-t-elle des comptes, a demandé le FT à une de ses représentantes ?
▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6a025d12-ec55-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4.html
C’est parce que nous n’avons pas besoin d’en rendre que nous sommes utiles à l’humanité.
“A government may need to be responsive to their citizens more quickly,” she explains. “But we can take a 10-year bet, we can take a 20-year bet because we don’t need to answer to citizens or shareholders. We try to focus on long-term bets and taking risks that others can’t.”
Criticism of what is happening in the present is welcome, she adds, but a philanthropic organisation of this scale and ambition needs always to look to the future.
“For example, we’re trying to invest in the science of vaccination that might not pay off for 20 years,” Dr Desmond-Hellmann says. “But who is going to invest in vaccination at the deep level if not the Gates Foundation?”
Via @felixsalmon sur Twitter
