The Mobile brings a new dimension to the way of life globally. The Opportunities for dissemination and acquisition of dissemination and acquisition of knowledge in the mobile age are replete wit challenges and calls for well studied approach. Lara Srivastve privides a perspectiove on the topic - Dissemination and Acquisition of Knowledge in a Mobile Age. An abstract on the topic - Seeing, Learning and Understanding in a Mobile Age is available here.
The key changes in the landscape include:
- worldwide phenomenon of more mobile than fixed(since 2002)
- More population in the developing world would use the mobile to acess the internet.
- in general, like the device,people themselves are much more ‘mobile’, in an
increasingly globalized economy and society
The Hungarian academy of sciences recently organised a conference on this topic - complete set of presentation is available here. This includes a nice presentation by Andrew Brook on the topic Blackberry : Forever One or Just Friends? makes interesting reading.
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