> Unfortunately (and I am not accusing you) there is a tendency to
> consider these people as being somewhat inferior in the same manner that
IIT
> graduates sometimes refer to non IIT types.
I wont consider them inferior. I have met some very technically competent
people working for ISPs in the region (given I award fellowships for two
large workshops, one asiapac wide and the other focused on the saarc region
.. apricot.net and sanog.org)
Especially the Pakistanis - there are several people in various Pakistan
ISPs that strike me as much smarter than their peers elsewhere about these
best practices
Unfortunately, government owned telcos don't tend to retain smart people,
and whatever smartness there is gets damped down by mediocrity and
incompetence at senior levels. And any trips to foreign places, to attend
even teaching conferences like these, tend to get sanctioned for less than
competent senior management, who proceed to treat it as a paid vacation.
Similar thing with government agencies .. saw a nice old gentleman whose
ticket to a high level, expert conference had been paid for by a certain
very large corporation. Senior official. Who didn't, unfortunately, know
very much at all about the subject of the conference. And earnestly tried to
show his interest by asking very simple, very basic questions.
Sort of like the deputy director of a premier medical institution turning up
at an international conference on cancer, funded by one of the large anti
cancer drug firms, and then asking questions that'd count for 1 mark in a
10th standard biology exam.
suresh
