tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020935292186960688.post7354206690223502325..comments2024-03-27T06:23:17.641-04:00Comments on Ontario-geofish: Canada failing with technologyHarold Asmishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06458639605880944167noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020935292186960688.post-77298090166034259592010-05-14T02:20:39.266-04:002010-05-14T02:20:39.266-04:00" These advances in technology are having pro..." These advances in technology are having profound impacts on Canada’s learning system, both how we teach and how we learn."<br><br>SOrry, I just clicked on a random section and got to the above quote, and could read much more. <br><br>Bonus: look at <a href="http://de-en.gc.ca/consultation-paper/consultation-paper-2/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/consultation-paper/" rel="nofollow">the URL</a> for the page of the discussion paper where this quote appears.<br>-<br>-<br><br>An Anecdote:<br>My father works for a government scientific entity. They had been using the web for conveying some technical scientific information in useful (and perhaps innovative) ways. His highers-up decided that all web pages had to be archivable, translated, and have organisation-wide links and side-bars. They farmed out this operation to an outside consultancy, which took a year, consumed much money, and delivered a product that had all the "look and feel" the government wanted, with the (irrelevant?) side effect that its original useful functionality was lost.<br><br>Considering the above anecdote, I wonder how much of Canada's IT growth is to provide similarly useless IT "services" to Government and Industry? Probably a lot. It might be a good thing if general growth in this sector stagnated for a while. It isn't obvious that many IT investments improve business or government productivity.crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020935292186960688.post-80126766975105023362010-05-11T09:06:47.916-04:002010-05-11T09:06:47.916-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administra...This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.arshadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10605773014066037901noreply@blogger.com