Charles, You may have a look at the Diaspora Knowledge Network (http://www.dk-network.org/-Connaitre-DKN-.html) which is a Unesco supported project on internet mediated brain gain. Or contact Bill Turner (William.Turner@limsi.fr) which is in charge of this project at the LIMSI (http://www.limsi.fr/). So far the project is mainly oriented toward Columbia and Eastern Europe. But an African oriented axis is born through the Netsuds GDRI (Groupement de Recherche International) : http://www.gdri-netsuds.org/ (some knowledge of French may be useful at this point :-). In South Africa, the CSIR and IFAS are part of this network. Hope that helps and happy to see eventually some African focused interest on this list :-) Greetings from Dakar Eric -- =============== Eric BERNARD Ak-dev director Ak-project Dakar, Senegal cel. : +221 824 38 02 eric@ak-project.com http://www.ak-project.com =============== <mailto:William.Turner@limsi.fr.a_enlever> Charles Ess a écrit :
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
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