Understanding technology and learning in Africa….the Brahmins’ Problem

The failure of modernity

Mobility and post-modernity‘Development’ African non-modernity

Participative/user-centred design& traditional conceptions of learning

Global knowledge economy vs survival & subsistence

‘development’ vs ‘appropriate’

Lack of capacity

In researchIn ‘evidenced-base policy formulation’In business models & social entrepreneurs

Projects & Pilots :

Problems of siting and sampling, publishing and disseminating

Problems of transferring, abstracting, generalising, replicating and of essentialising

Working with communities

investigative techniques

&ethics

Exit strategies &

social enterprises

Thank you