Development and corruption talk this evening

I attended a talk sponsored by engineers without borders University of Ottawa Chapter this evening. A Canadian International Development Agency employee, Shaukat Hassan gave a talk. Here is the blurb from their facebook event post where I learned of this event

Interested in learning how corruption is affecting Canada's development today? How EWB can play it's part in this fight? Or whether it should at all? Is corruption a post-imperialistic construction used as an excuse to target aid based on political motives? Or is corruption an overlooked challenge to development that can finally be addressed in a highly technical globalized era? Wondering what all this means for a socially conscious person like you?

Then Come on out to Development Drinks!

What: Shaukat Hassan, the Canadian International Development Agency's expert on corruption issues will speak on corruption and challenges it poses to development, and this will be followed by informal group discussion.

As background the EWB shared this article on facebook.

Article by Shaukat Hassan:

http://www.acdi.gc.ca/images.nsf/vLUImages/Journal_Of_Development/$file/journal-corruption-and-dev-chal.pdf

Shaukat Hassan recommended that EWB develop ethical guidelines and codes of conduct in other words a professional code of conduct for their voluntary efforts.