theorywatch

The best thing about teaching (though I’m certainly not the best teacher, compared to some of the terrific ones I’ve had the opportunity to work with over the years, such as Bob Taylor, Marta Dosa, Pauline Atherton, Antje Lemke, Barbara Kwasnik, or Sari Biklen) is what I learn myself in my classes. Discussion on one of our competitive intelligence class forums today about how we’re focusing too much on technology and competition in the private sector– quite true! If we broadened our focus, we could be thinking about things like Sahana and what it’s doing for collaborative intelligence in humanitarian ICT. Which casts a very different light on how we think about these CI and KM issues… and how I’ll teach this class next time.