Twelve people, one lamp, and one left outside the light beam. A small illustration about the 657 million people living without electricity access. The progress is real, and so is the dark at the edge of it.

In 1979, Carol Weiss found that research rarely works the way we assume. Policymakers don't read a report and then apply it. Knowledge seeps in slowly and reshapes how problems are understood, which she called the enlightenment function. If influence is that diffuse, one flagship report isn't enough. I believe that we need a continuous, coherent ambiance of information, not an event but a practice.