[governance] [New post] The Dead Hand of (Western) Academe: Community Informatics in a Less Developed Country Context

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

It is interesting that you raise this Michael because we have been having a
most interesting discussion on the PICISOC mailing list where on one hand
you have a person from the organisation that is custodian of the Digital
Strategy within Oceania stating that the region is the most overstudied
region and on the other hand you have people like me arguing the irrelevance
of some of the approaches and studies done.

Sala

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> There may be some interest in this context...
>
> M
>
> Gurstein.wordpress.com <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/>: The Dead Hand of
> (Western) Academe: Community
> Informatics in a Less Developed Country Context
>
> I'm just back from a variety of recent travels--lecturing, workshopping,
> seminaring, meeting with academics and researchers in various parts of the
> Asian less developed countries (LDCs).  Specifically I was invited to
> discuss community informatics with academics/researchers in 3 universities
> in 3 rather different regions of Asia.
>
> In reflecting on these meetings I realized the very strong strain of
> consistency in our discussions.  In each instance, the academics, almost
> all
> of whom had recent Ph.D.s from research universities in Developed Countries
> (DC's) returned home to find that their recently acquired skills and areas
> of expert knowledge were of little direct value in their home environments.
>
> More http://wp.me/pJQl5-6Z
>
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-- 
Sala

"Stillness in the midst of the noise".
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