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

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Hi all

I just returned from vacation

The problem lies with the education policies and the environment where
a person is educated.

Take for an example some obtaining an MBA from a highly economic
competitive environment like Britain or the US having to operate in a
corrupt environment. That person will not find its feet in applying
the notions acquired and developing them.

In defining development geared education policies, most leaders take
their environment into consideration. And countries that have such
policies develop. Look at Japan, most of their resource persons are
not trained outside.

I am not against foreign human ressources but this must be blended
with local ressources or else we arrive at the situation highlighted
here

Aaron

On 6/9/11, Sonigitu Ekpe <sonigituekpe at crossriverstate.gov.ng> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Michael is very correct.
> I think this maybe due to quest for funding that make majority studying or
> conducting researches that are not the basic need of less developed
> Countries on one hand and the order is lack of coordination within the LDC
> policy makers and other stakeholders to articulate programs that can bring
> in specialization among professional players.
>
> Many other factors also influence their relevancy.
>
> It is also a great problem in Africa.
>
> Warm wishes.
>
> Sonigitu
>
> On 9 Jun 2011 20:58, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 som...
> --
> Sala
>
> "Stillness in the midst of the noise".
>
>
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