Information Technology: What Does It Mean for Scientists and Scholars in the Developing World?

摘要

Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature and author of the trilogy Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, once said that it seemed as if writing about the life and sensibilities of Black people didn't really count; it was not thought important enough to merit attention; it was peripheral. Doing science or working in any area of scholarship in a developing country is somewhat like being a Black in the Alabama of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. One is at a great disadvantage. In an imperfect world, one who works under adverse conditions in a developing country needs to achieve a lot more to win some recognition than those who work under far better conditions in the advanced countries.