Sigh... M
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ray Harrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we get a grant? > > REH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > Gurstein > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:42 PM > To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' > Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China > > There is an offer I find extremely difficult to refuse :-). > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:24 AM > To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' > Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China > > > We should take a trip across the country. I would happy to translate for > you. :>)) > > REH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > Gurstein > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:33 PM > To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' > Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China > > Thanks Ray, > > The next trip in fact is south (far south to Brazil ;-) > > The thing about social phenomena in China at the moment is that so much > change/development is happening in real time... Visible on the streets... > > And yes, I'm quite sure there is an Ant Tribe in the US (slackers?) but > because things are moving rather more slowly there and you have the media > fog obscuring things it may be rather more difficult to see. In China, the > (English) media is rather less subtle (more like a driving rain than a fog) > and so it is easier to raise an umbrella and see at least the outline of > things. > > (I should say that having access to my son's Mandarin skills and knowledge > of contemporary China made any insight I might have had possible. > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:51 AM > To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' > Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China > > > Mike, > I just read your wonderful article. I would be interested in such a > report > from your travels in the U.S. Your analytical intellect would make such a > report very interesting to me personally. Also, the issue of language that > you commented on in China is not a general issue here although the same > words mean vastly different things based in colloquial realities. We too > have our ant people here. People with little capital, inferior to good > and > even great higher education but a total lack of an ability to use > connections to create things. I believe the last such "analysis" I read > of > such "ant" people was a novel by Thomas Hardy called "Jude the Obscure". > How about it? Turn your spotlight on the down South. > > REH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael > Gurstein > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:20 PM > To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' > Subject: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China > > (Some additional thoughts/comments from my recent trip to China... > Coincidentally just published 30 minutes ago ;-) > > M > > > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/some-thoughts-on-community-informat > ics-in-china/<http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/some-thoughts-on-community-informat%0Aics-in-china/> > > "An even more intriguing possibility would be the fusing of existing rural > (political) organizational structures with ICTs and envigorated with new > blood from the "ant tribe" and other young people with Internet and ICT > skills leading to a rural renewal, extended service delivery and both more > efficient and sustainable agricultural and SMME and SME developments. > Perhaps once the attention of the Chinese leadership shifts back from the > explosive developments in urban areas similar structural developments might > begin to be seen in rural areas and among lower income populations as > well." > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >
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