[Air-l] On-line behaviour

[Nicole Reinhold]

Dear all,
Interesting discussion . . . 
I agree very much to what John pointed out: "We have a digit divide but 
not the one we expected to have."

I like to add a different aspect to that discussion. What about not 
looking at society level but looking at working environments. 
How can we work in projects teams with a huge "digital divide"?
In work settings it's not anymore a question of choice but a question of 
alignment, so that everybody can participate and collaborate in the 
project. 
>From my own experience, I know that different attitude and skills with 
regards to e-technologies (especially communication tools) make it very 
difficult to work together and create a common vision. 
Has anybody similar experiences?
What once it was a challenge to work in multidisciplinary teams, in our 
days the challenge is to work in teams with a huge "digital divide". 
The biggest issue is that many still see the internet and it's 
applications as a question of tools - it's IT. They are little aware that 
by using those "tools" a new way of communication and collaboration is 
possible, which can/will change the way of working. IT on the other side 
is puzzled on how come that the tools developed does not get used - or not 
used properly - or only by a specific group. There is little awareness 
that those tools need also a ?culture of usage?.
And second question is of course when does it make sense to push for new 
e-technology based application and when not. 


Any thoughts or comments?

Regards Nicole

MA. Nicole Reinhold, 
Senior Research Consultant
nicole.reinhold at philips.com,  http://www.design.philips.com


air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org wrote on 2006-11-27 09:55:55 PM:

> You should check the work of Pew Internet. 
> http://www.pewinternet.org/  Particularly interesting
> here is there studies of "Refusniks" and why some
> people remain isolated or offline.  While clearly
> there are refuseniks - I think the latest Pew Internet
> work finds that those groups are becoming increasingly
> demographically isolated and over time are vanishing. 
> There are for example elder populations which have not
> gotten online - but as generations move
> demographically, this is becoming a smaller factor. 
> 
> You can also find some statistical data aggregated on
> Cybertelecom.  This page has a subcategory re
> refuseniks 
> http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm
> 
> --- John Veitch <jsveitch at ate.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Alexis Turner wrote:
> > > This response is indicative of something I have
> > been thinking about a lot 
> > > lately, which can basically be summed up by asking
> > "WHY do we expect people to 
> > > use the web to the extent to which we, web
> > professionals and scholars, do?" and 
> > > "WHY are we so dumbfounded when they don't?" In
> > particular, I have really begun 
> > > to question my own horrified, but, ultimately,
> > knee jerk reaction to discovering 
> > > that someone does not "engage," "participate," or
> > "produce" things on the web. 
> > > After all, I don't grow my own food, fix my own
> > car, or build my own 
> > > calculators, so why should I expect others to
> > learn HTML, join a list, or 
> > > defrag their own harddrive? 
> > 
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