Part IV
Contexts of Implication
My academic focus and great interest in epistemological infrastructures have constantly being the bases for my practice driven work on research and development. I seem to have situated myself in contexts and activities not yet established and sometimes constituting untouched land. This concerns development of feminist research within faculties of technology, transformation of ’the culture of no culture’ in development of a new university campus as well as mode 2 practices in low income countries130 fostering emerging innovation systems. These contexts might seem disparate but there is a red thread holding them firmly together, which I hope to show also in the chapters followed in Part IV.
Although I have dealt with a number of implication issues in chapters above, Part IV will tell stories from implications contexts becoming in bright relief as we find ourselves in contexts of scarce resources and where issues of survival are realities. I here direct the focus to contexts in East Africa. Chapter 11 is trying to set the scene. Implication contexts of ICT131 is presented and discussed in chapters 12 and 13 focusing Tanzania and in chapter 14 focusing Uganda. The same countries are highlighted in chapter 15, where the implication contexts are cluster initiatives and emerging innovation systems.
For the chapters following I am most grateful to my colleagues and friends in East Africa and Bolivia, to Sida and my colleagues at BTH and SICD132. I am constantly learning.