Dear AoIRists, At a recent meeting on African Information Ethics (the first ever for Africa - and a wonderful conference!) in Pretoria, South Africa, a colleague raised questions about possibilities of using the Internet / Web (I've taken a liking to "the World Wide Inter-Web" from a recent movie...) vis-à-vis the problem of African scientists moving abroad in Diaspora and the brain drain that that Diaspora represents. I know that a number of AoIRists have pertinent research, experience, and suggestions for contacts (including self-nominations) that would be very useful indeed to forward to our colleague, who is working with a number of agencies to develop strategies for using the WWIW (smile) to help offset such a brain drain. We would greatly appreciate your forwarding those suggestions either to me offlist or with the list at large. I'll compile these - including possible contacts - and then send them on to our colleague in S.A. Many thanks in advance! - charles Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html> Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23