Bruce Potter's self styled carping raises a number of critical issues.
One of these is the value of much of the governmental or
semi-governmental organizations such as the World Bank in the ICT/KM
arena.
1) Bruce claims that he has had difficulty extracting useful information
from many of these
WHINING AND CARPING by potter [skip to the good parts below if you've
heard it all before . . . ]
As moderator for a couple dozen e-mail lists (grown up over the past
five or six years) for something like 2200 users in the insular
Caribbean (check it out at http://www.irf.org/mailings.htm), I
Alan Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a classic example of where ICT infrastructure money goes... to
another one of countless channels:
To amplify our power, there is the blendability of the new digital
technologies, the multiplying power of networks, the interdependability
of human
Alan Levy is somewhat vitriolic in his condemnation of yet another
talking shop. Like him I lurk in some of the Digital Divide listservs.
But, unlike him, I don't know or pretend to understand the detailed
politics of the actors involved in digital divide dealings. Unlike him I
don't contribute