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Back from China!

4/23/2007

Sometimes pictures are worth more than a thousand words. Here’s a photo recap from the past week in China…   Shanghai at night Conference poster at Anqing Teachers College I present my stuff with translation help from Wu Jian (“Johnson”) At the Huang Mei Opera Meeting with Anqing Teachers College leaders


The Leapfrog Principle (in Chinese)

4/12/2007

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The question of ICT in development

4/11/2007

Dr. Jayson Richardson, guest blogging elsewhere, reflects on a conversation we had recently regarding ICT adoption in developing nations and asks: The question is how will advances in technology such the Nokia N800, a Wi-Fi Internet tablet which includes VoIP support and WiMax which enables long range wireless broadband access change society in less developed [...]


China’s great leapfrog forward?

4/2/2007

Yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Magazine had an article on educational reform in China. Whereas the United States is moving toward an educational model that displays characteristics of traditional Chinese education (especially an emphasis on testing), the Chinese are moving toward an educational model that is, in their view, more Western. This means integrating liberal [...]


Four futures for China Inc.

2/2/2007

My interest in China is booming. I will travel to China in April for a teacher education conference sponsored by the Ministry of Education and several international organizations. I will present a workshop on leapfrogging in teacher education to build globally-competent and competitive human capital –particularly among youth. It appears they’re taking leapfrogging seriously. China [...]


People’s Daily: China to build “artificial sun”

1/22/2006

The Poeple’s Daily reports that, A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province. The device will reportedly be built for USD 37 million — 15 times less than the ITER Tokamak project [...]


BusinessWeek: What innovation advantage?

1/19/2006

Roger Martin writes that “Chinese and Indian companies aren’t leaving design to the North Americans”: “There is a romantic notion in North American business that its future lies in design and innovation, while India and China will be the home of less skilled, lower-paying operations churning out the products and services the U.S. comes up [...]


NewScientist: China and India ‘hold the world in balance’

1/16/2006

NewScientist reports: Development giants China and India “hold the world in balance”, says a new report by a US environmental think tank. “The choices these two countries make in the next few years will lead the world either towards growing ecological and political instability – or down a development path based on efficiency and better [...]


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Intel offshores research and design operations

India eNews.com reports that Intel is to make India its global hub for innovation. Intel plans to invest US$1 billion to expand its research and development operations in the country as part of its “World Ahead Initiative.” According to Intel CEO Paul Otellini: ‘Over the next five years, the initiative aims at helping accelerate the [...]


The “great Singularity debate”

ZDNet is running a blog story on the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. Particular attention in the article is focused on the debate between Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Hofstader on utopian versus dystopian futures: Kurzweil acknowledged that Singularity could lead to an unappealing or cataclysmic future, but he believes his vision will have a soft [...]


EurActive: A cross-country comparison of innovation policy and performance

EurActive reports on a recently released OECD report that ties innovation policy with economic and social gowth and well-being: Using a common framework based on the National Innovation Systems approach this report highlights countries’ strengths and weaknesses in innovation, as well as the effectiveness of their innovation policies in driving economic performance. Taken together, the [...]


New Scientist: Emerging dark age of innovation

New Scientist’s Robert Adler writes: “…we are fast approaching a new dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon’s Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. [...]


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