Our supervisor now has his own blog

Our supervisor, Sudhanshu, just send us a link to his new blog, and I thought that I would share it with the rest of you. The blog is titled "Improvise or innovate, which is which" and through our own study at CBS we have participated in a course about what innovation actually is. Again a subject which at first sight seems quite easy to solve, but as Sudhanshu enlightens it isn't. Go read and comment on his blog at:

http://stepbystepinnovation.blogspot.com/

In the weekend I read another couple of articles, always reading articles... And still feeling energized and happy about our subject and progress. And looking forward to our Master Thesis. One of the articles I read was about digital divide. The argument for a digital divide goes something like this: ICT is good and enables economic growth. As people in the developed countries have access to ICT and people in less developed countries do not, we have a digital divide, where the economic performance between counties will only become bigger. The solution to development is then to provide people with ICT. The article argues against a digital divide in the following way: it is by no means enough to just provide ICT, the software provided needs to be contextualised to be relevant (specific prises for farmers or fishermen), people must to be educated to use ICT and perhaps the society needs to change to educate and empower it's population.

We already acknowledged this dilemma when we took the course ITI last fall. What was interesting in this article, was that it used the dilemma of literacy<->illiteracy, in precisely the same way as the digital divide, talking about this dilemma also not being a literacy divide, but being much more nuanced. As our current research focus is to do ICT for illiterate this article has provided us with a a starting ground for articles talking about what illiteracy actually is, hereby saving us from some time to do literary searching. And no we can't just use Google to search for articles...