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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 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
