Monday, January 22, 2007

Talking about ICTs and development

"The bulk of these efforts, when co-ordinated, have brought together computer scientists, policy analysts and engineers to mould solutions that make a difference to the lives of ordinary people. At the same time, however, academics from the legal, human and social sciences have also attempted to forge paths that make optimal use of ICTs for meaningful transformation. Many have argued that the best ICT solutions, with free and open source software, among them, will remain meaningless without adequate understanding of how pathways of knowledge and empowerment work."

It is for sure one big challenge to understand how to introduce these new instrument into the society.

Read more about this in the excellent magazine Tectonic

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