The primary unmet need seen by the founders of the ICG, for example, was to compensate for governments’ growing incapacity, for both security and budgetary reasons, to develop an accurate picture of what was happening on the ground in conflict zones. Open-source reporting and commentary by the media were not doing much to fill the gaps, because resource shortages, particularly in the quality print media, have long been dumbing down international coverage of sensitive and difficult situations.
首先，INGO必须带来价值，满足目前未完全满足或完全未满足的需要。比如，ICG创始人所看到的主要的未满足需要是为了安全和预算原因补充政府的日益无能，开发关于冲突区到底在发生什么的准确图景。媒体开源报告和评论对于填补这方面空白贡献甚微，以为内资源短缺，特别是高质量印刷媒体的短缺，长期以来都在制约对敏感和困难局面的国际报道。