[Sigiii-l] plaza please post

[Michel J. Menou]

Folks
Good question ...
May be the first thing is to struggle for systematic use of open
source softwares, when- whereever suitable, so that you are not
trapped in a spiral of updates, new version, etc.
Another avenue could be to get organized in such a way that your
concerns and interest could be presented and defended.
While businesses are increasingly concentrated, users' communities
continue to be atomized.

Best regards

Michel J. Menou                Mail to: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr

Saturday, October 12, 2002, 4:59:37 PM, you wrote:

CL> Hi Annette,

CL> I like the way you expressed your view and concern, as the message should
CL> represent the thoughts of most end users who are neither ICT practitioners
CL> nor academics. The question is: what can end users do to help ourselves, to
CL> improve the utility, cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness of ICT?

CL> Best regards,

CL> Charles Lam

CL> ----- Original Message -----
CL> From: <VanKoevering at fis.utoronto.ca>
CL> To: <sigiii-l at asis.org>
CL> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:20 AM
CL> Subject: [Sigiii-l] plaza please post


>> Hello.  This is my contribution to the global information plaza.
>>
>> Position Statement:
>>
>> I think that what will change in my professional life, due to
CL> globalization, is
>> the work load.  The major hurdle that I see in my future career will be
>> overload.  There will be so much information available that it will take
>> forever just to sort through it all to find the relevant information.
CL> Also the
>> technological aspect will be of considerable concern.  There will be a
CL> need
>> for constant upgrading of my skills just to break even with the amount of
>> technology that will be constantly introduced.  One piece of evidence for
>> this is computers, basically as soon as you buy one it has become
>> obsolete and you need to rush out to buy software to make it compatible
>> with the new technological revolution.  As well I will need to upgrade in
>> order to learn ever better search strategies to enable me to sift through
CL> all
>> of the available information.  The information science community (ISC)
CL> will
>> have to enable information workers to upgrade their skills with, perhaps,
>> workshops or liaisons.  Also the ISC will have to provide the up to date
>> technology that will be needed in order to do the job.  To help themselves
>> they will need to constantly keep in touch with information workers to
>> effect communication between the two to provide better services and have
>> happy information workers.
>> The changes to my personal life are less far reaching because I don't
>> spend all day now looking for information so I don't feel the changes that
>> much right now.  The one thing that I have noticed is my e-mail is getting
>> more and more junk sent through it, which I then have to sift through to
>> keep the good and delete the chaff.  To cope with the change I need to
>> constantly check my e-mail so I don't end up with 100 messages waiting
>> for me every time I open my e-mail account up.  The ISC could come up
>> with better spam filters, but  at this point that is a minor
CL> consideration.
>> This is my assessment of globalization and me.  Annette Van Koevering
>>
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