[Sigiii-l] plaza please post

[Charles Lam]

Dear friends,

I am happy to find that this forum are participated by people who  have
thoughts similar to mine. This is indeed a rare opportunity today!

People who write the freewares are not (well) paid. Rich ICT suppliers can
employ the best brains to generate the sharpest ICT devices and marketing
techniques so that more and more lay end users are attracted to buy them
(most of them follow currents; they are not clear about their real needs).
Suppliers also fund universities with the
objective that the latter would produce the right research findings or buy
the right equipment.

Is resource power the strongest power source? Any wise advice for the
community to get out from this unfavourable situation?

Best regards,

Charles Lam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel J. Menou" <Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr>
To: <sigiii-l-admin at asis.org>; "Charles Lam" <clam at kamching.com>
Cc: <VanKoevering at fis.utoronto.ca>; <sigiii-l at asis.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:02 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [Sigiii-l] plaza please post


> 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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