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10 Information Technology and Data in the Context of Developing Countries
Pages 41-44

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... When we talk about public access to scientific data and information, we tend to forget that these resources contain codified information that has acquired legitimacy in specific historical and socioeconomic contexts; at the time of their production there were different research projects or alternative areas of science that for whatever 41
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... What we take as scientific knowledge, as prevailing truth, is very much an output of the dynamics of power, as I think my example illustrated. My colleagues from developing countries, not having mastered the conventions of writing their ideas in a way that is acceptable within the current norms of the scientific community, lost their voice.
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... S Kirkman et al., 2002, The Global Information Technology Report 2001-2002: Readiness for the Networked World, Oxford University Press, New York.


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