[WikiEN-l] FYI: Infiltrating politics. Definitions will greet us as liberators (today: iterative)

[Mathias Schindler]

(The chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Jim
Connaughton, and Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global
Affairs Dr. Paula Dobriansky will discuss the policy and
implementation committee meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on
Clean Development and Climate.)




KARSNER: Yes, I'm Andy Karsner. I'm the assistant secretary for energy
efficiency and renewable energy at the Department of Energy.

And I just overheard the last bit of your question. And I wanted to
comment because I'm rather new inside the government, but I have
extensive experience in the private sector as an international project
developer.

[...]

So you have to bear in mind, if we want to adapt our role to
catalyzing market forces to steer the capital to the desired result,
government has to have a proper perspective, which is to be iterative
and catalytic with the private sector...

QUESTION: I'm sorry, what did you say?

KARSNER: I said government must hold the...

QUESTION: But be iterative? Is that what you said?

KARSNER: Iterative, correct.

QUESTION: What's that?

KARSNER: What is iterative?

QUESTION: Iterative, in this sense.

KARSNER: Happy to give you my definition on that. You might have to
check Wikipedia in case I go awry.

Iterative means having a relationship where one reacts off of the
other as opposed to, sort of, maintaining the delusion that government
can do this all by itself. $52 million, even in Washington, is a whole
lot of money and a very, very serious commitment to being catalytic.