As someone involved in training for IT (just started with the planned Internet Studies program for
1999 at Curtin Uni), I'm struck by the techno-centric bias of most IT education. Does anyone
think that there's a chance IT training might include at least some basic ethics, social policy,
flexible skills type of education so that we don't create a caste of technologically oriented IT
workers?
(BTW, I'm not saying that Australia doesn't need 1,000s of IT workers...simply that it would be
nice to have some who are trained in management, policy, analysis etc - future members of the
advistory council perhaps?? :) )
Matt
Dr Matthew Allen
Senior Lecturer, Humanities
Coordinator, Internet Studies
Curtin University of Technology
61 - 8 9266 3511