Niyam wrote: > it's just too vague and generic. Indeed it is generic. Probably I should have set the context a bit more explicitly. It essentially revolves around my ideas with mother tongue programming (all roads lead to Hindawi!). Now I keep talking about make ICT a cottage industry - make ICT a cottage industry; often in a manner that reminds me of the last scene of "Finding Nemo" - the fishes did escape in plastic bags - and ended up with a "Now what?"
Well, if the "dream" of ICT becoming a cottage industry comes true - and indeed it will - what will that mean? Let me just talk in the Indian context. We have around 6.5 million villages. ICT as a cottage industry would mean at least one small computer company / group in each village. What projects will these 6 and a half million teams work on! I get nightmares handling a small team spread across merely 2-3 locations, and here we are talking of a mammoth "collective conciousness" arousen by the desire to create. Will it become a devil with no work to feed it? Then all of our exercise in reaching the ICT producer prowess to the uninitiated is better done without. Are we only going to remain the "service" guys of ICT? Having unveiled the dilemma, I came up with a solution. We in IT deal out more solutions than pharmacists and make more deliveries than obstetricians - though with a much higher mortality rate! Why? One reason that I personally find prevalent is the lack of a philosophy driving our activities. Hence for the "Make ICT a cottage industry" project - IndSoftEx (India Software Exchange) http://indsoftex.com (URL when it gets launched) - I know we will need fodder for the giant before we begin; and this fodder will need to be ideas that can propagate newer thoughts; and that is more likely in a top-down approach (views may differ here). Hence, I tried to figure out where could we find the hundreds of thousands of ideas, if not millions - well all around us. The current list is essentially only a seed list and it has to be propounded into the hundreds of thousands of "concrete" ideas. That a true ivory tower design - well not really! > "textile-print design software' and "textile weaving software" Great! that's how I expect the list to grow. For instance, my ideas of R&D software would be a FOSS application for micro-electrode-array (MEA) DAQ and analysis for use in neuroscience. Well, thanks are also due to Arky and Gajendra, who have enlightened me to a need of a Wiki rather than a Blog for such a task. Now that sounds like a plan. Regards, Abhishek Choudhary MSc MA MA BBA Chartered IT Professional(UK) MBCS(UK) MIET(UK) MIEEE SrMCSI Pune, INDIA WWW: http://cognitist.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +91-9860700184 Affiliations: AAAI, ACM, BCS, CogSci, CSI, IEEE (CS/ComSoc/NNS/RAS/SMCS/VTS), IET, INCOSE, SAE "From Assembly to Lisp in your mother tongue" http://hindawi.in _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
