New facebook group

The first week with four days allocated solely for our master thesis project is about to be over. We have made good progress on our funding raising quest. Several funds have encouraged us to apply.

As a consequence of the four days our actual literature reading is speeding up. Today I read an article about possible differences between the knowledge of indigenous and western science. The articles main point is that profoundly there are no differences. Whatever works or seems to work for people at that time is captured and preserved as knowledge. If knowledge at some point in time becomes useless it is discarded. The article thus proposes to think of many different knowledge systems in countries and areas around the world. The usefulness of this to us is that if/when we are going to India/Bhutan to collect data, we must acknowledge that the data we collect will be "coloured" by our way of thinking and collecting data. There is no neutral standing point for us to stand on and observe. Even though the article is solely about development, it is also utterly important for us to remember when designing ICT interfaces.

At our weekly Thursday meeting with Sudhanshu we introduced him to Google Doc. Kenneth and I use Google Docs extensively to share information between us. It will be interesting to see what Sudhanshu thinks about it.

As the title suggest we have created our own Facebook group, there people who supports us can sign up. Please do. Now. :) Here is the link. This way we can see if anybody at all is interested in our work. We will definitely use it to find comfort when the progress on our Master Theses seems to have stopped.

To night I will go to Fælledparken to participate in DHL stafetten with friends and family. DHL stafetten is a social running of 25 km where 5 people each runs 5 km. You know going to a country with as high mountains as Bhutan, requires that you are fit.

Have a nice weekend.