research/ers on Diaspora and brain drain?
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
Charles - there is a body of research being done on what's known as "reverse brain drain" or "brain recirculation" - I wouldnt be tech determinist and say its "Because of the Internet" but there are various issues Economic and socio-cultural that surround the IT industry playing into this. here's a reference I know of through personal dialogue - (of course) and his biblio etc might take you to more readings in this are. Gajjala V (2006) The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Enhancing Processes of Entrepreneurship and Globalization in Indian Software Companies in The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Vol 26 see http://www.ejisdc.org:8011/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/article/view/271 r
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.
Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog
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
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
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Radhika Gajjala