[discuss] Report from the BR meeting local organizing group - Dec 2013

Tue Dec 24 12:12:38 UTC 2013

In message <84C9EA3B-CB64-4C53-AB39-FE8C0D1E969D at gmail.com>, at 11:46:01 
on Tue, 24 Dec 2013, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> writes

 >[perhaps] the LOG thinks ... that the "technical and academia 
 >community" is actually a single category, which would be a throw-back 
 >to the nonsensical UN WSIS formulation (which inter alia implies that 
 >the only “academics" worth including are technical people, not 
social >scientists etc

Isn't it more to do with the existence of a significant body of *policy 
making* (rather than *IT engineering*) folks within the academic 
community who are sufficiently integrated into what's generally called 
the I-star community that it's needlessly complicated to try to separate 
them back out again.

Some of them are quite likely social scientists.
-- 
Roland Perry