Comments on: Africa and the Information Age http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/ A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:53:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jagadeesh Venugopal http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/comment-page-1/#comment-42863 Jagadeesh Venugopal Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:39:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/#comment-42863 Phil -- you don't need CS grads. Can you train African students to work in VB/Access/SQL Server? You bet! Yes they need some basic software engineering principles, but don't need a 4 year CS education to be productive. Think about this... they may churn out unmaintainable code but who cares so long as it is so cheap that you could replace the entire code base every couple of years? I think in the long run, a well educated African continent can pose a serious threat to the current leaders in outsourcing. Phil — you don’t need CS grads. Can you train African students to work in VB/Access/SQL Server? You bet! Yes they need some basic software engineering principles, but don’t need a 4 year CS education to be productive. Think about this… they may churn out unmaintainable code but who cares so long as it is so cheap that you could replace the entire code base every couple of years? I think in the long run, a well educated African continent can pose a serious threat to the current leaders in outsourcing.

]]> By: philg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22654 philg Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:33:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/#comment-22654 Michael: There are two links at the bottom of the article, one to Olin and one to Neumont. Michael: There are two links at the bottom of the article, one to Olin and one to Neumont.

]]> By: Michael R. Bernstein http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22639 Michael R. Bernstein Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/04/13/africa-and-the-information-age/#comment-22639 "[...] every university that has tackled it has succeeded." Cite? “[...] every university that has tackled it has succeeded.”

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