On 2010/04/25, at 06:10 , Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Metrication in Africa has a political dimension as well. Most of
British
Africa was decolonized in the early to mid 1960's which co-incided
with the
commencement of British metrication. I believe that subconsciously
metrication was seen as part of the decolonization process.
Dear Martin,
I agree with your idea of a political dimension. However, this is only
a small part of the whole of the metrication change process. Think
about John Kotter's thoughts about how changer in organisations (and
nations) happens, see http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm
Using this model the 'political dimension' you refer to plays a part
in step 1 and in step 8 of Kotter's 8-step change model, but all the
other components need to happen in between.
Cheers,
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