Feb 06
Why did virtually all the other countries in the South not take advantage of the opportunities presented by modern technology to transform their economies as the South-East Asian “Tigers” have so successfully done? It was a failure of political leadership; it was a failure of imagination at the political and the institutional level; it was a failure/absence of vision; it was a failure of comprehension (the nature of modern technology), it was a profound misconception of the role of technology in, and the process by which it stimulates, development; and it was a failure at the level of the culture as a whole….
