Comments on: The sympathetic meeting of minds in ICT4D efforts http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/ Thu, 17 May 2012 15:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Autóalkatrész Miskolc http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-33321 Autóalkatrész Miskolc Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:12:36 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-33321 <strong>Gems form the internet…...</strong> [...]very few websites that happen to be detailed below, from our point of view are undoubtedly well worth checking out[...]... Gems form the internet……

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]]> By: Mother http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-29017 Mother Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:38:35 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-29017 What is misanthropic is the implication that 'justification' is needed to add to the population. 'Fathers are irrelevant' isn't improving matters either. What is misanthropic is the implication that ‘justification’ is needed to add to the population. ‘Fathers are irrelevant’ isn’t improving matters either.

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]]> By: Michael Graaf http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-28507 Michael Graaf Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:27:32 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-28507 @Mother: What makes you see me as misanthropic? I haven't yet adopted, only because my life hasn't yet been stable enough. I have lived with and given love to many other people's children, though. By the way, population science is concerned only with the number of kids per mother. Fathers are irrelevant. @Mother: What makes you see me as misanthropic? I haven’t yet adopted, only because my life hasn’t yet been stable enough. I have lived with and given love to many other people’s children, though.

By the way, population science is concerned only with the number of kids per mother. Fathers are irrelevant.

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]]> By: Mother http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-28504 Mother Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:48:27 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-28504 @ Michael Graaf Have you adopted an orphan? Everyone eventually subtracts one from the population. Two parents one child is a net decrease. You should not be so misanthropic; "what these long haired hippie types don't understand is that its love that makes the world go around" - PIL @ Michael Graaf
Have you adopted an orphan? Everyone eventually subtracts one from the population. Two parents one child is a net decrease. You should not be so misanthropic; “what these long haired hippie types don’t understand is that its love that makes the world go around” - PIL

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]]> By: Kirstin Krauss http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25873 Kirstin Krauss Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:18:33 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25873 Thanks Mbongiseni Africans have a beautiful oral culture which they don't easily divulge to “strangers”. There is very little written about the African’s view of reality. Westerners need Africans like you that can put their view of reality in writing. I encourage you and others to take the lead in being the real African voice. Thanks Mbongiseni
Africans have a beautiful oral culture which they don’t easily divulge to “strangers”. There is very little written about the African’s view of reality. Westerners need Africans like you that can put their view of reality in writing. I encourage you and others to take the lead in being the real African voice.

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]]> By: Mbongiseni http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25872 Mbongiseni Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:18:51 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25872 i, now understand you even more, as your former student and research supervisor. i am more than impressed at you inquiring more on how other people live, about their culture. this attitude of learning more about other people's cultures will not only bear fruits for ICT4D, but also for all humankind. this is to say if each and every person in SA will forget about assumptions of others and inquire more, then we can have a very different SA to what we have now. your approach can solve many problems in many spheres, i.e. in SA varsities, the majority of dropouts are Africans, blacks to be precise. if lecturers can challenge themselves in understanding the social background/culture of blacks, i believe, it is then they can identify their uniquely different background/culture that if understood, lecturers can now lecture in a style that will in a way be understood by these student from deprived social reality. i will make an example by myself and friends. when i got into a university of kzn, i was overwhelmed by big buildings, and mostly meeting people who spoke english so well. during registration, i was given a pamphlet that i was told to use as my timetable - very confusing... better solutions will come from an inclusive culture that does not assume. i, now understand you even more, as your former student and research supervisor.

i am more than impressed at you inquiring more on how other people live, about their culture. this attitude of learning more about other people’s cultures will not only bear fruits for ICT4D, but also for all humankind.

this is to say if each and every person in SA will forget about assumptions of others and inquire more, then we can have a very different SA to what we have now.

your approach can solve many problems in many spheres, i.e. in SA varsities, the majority of dropouts are Africans, blacks to be precise. if lecturers can challenge themselves in understanding the social background/culture of blacks, i believe, it is then they can identify their uniquely different background/culture that if understood, lecturers can now lecture in a style that will in a way be understood by these student from deprived social reality.

i will make an example by myself and friends. when i got into a university of kzn, i was overwhelmed by big buildings, and mostly meeting people who spoke english so well. during registration, i was given a pamphlet that i was told to use as my timetable - very confusing…

better solutions will come from an inclusive culture that does not assume.

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]]> By: Michael Graaf http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25815 Michael Graaf Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:04:42 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25815 Same old self-justification for adding to the population: I will do a better job than all those other parents out there. Maybe so - but the same nurturing could be provided to adopted orphans instead of letting them languish. Same old self-justification for adding to the population: I will do a better job than all those other parents out there.

Maybe so - but the same nurturing could be provided to adopted orphans instead of letting them languish.

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]]> By: Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 31 of 2009 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25811 Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 31 of 2009 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:09:22 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/kirstinkrauss/2009/07/23/the-sympathetic-meeting-of-minds-in-ict4d-efforts/#comment-25811 [...] Intercultural communication in Information and Communication Technology – via @CultureMatters [...] […] Intercultural communication in Information and Communication Technology – via @CultureMatters […]

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