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"We have the sense that an awful lot of the knowledge about how to construct these organizations [NGOs] and make them effective is in the practice field, not in the academy, so we've been wondering then how to tap into the knowledge of the practice community, to take latent knowledge that's held out there in the world and to make it explicit and testable and sharable in a variety of different ways..." Mark H. Moore, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management and Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations What is Harvard's obligation to work for social justice around the world and what does that mean for our digital identity? Do we have a moral obligation to make use of Internet technologies to share our resources (for instance, our knowledge of how to fight disease) with the rest of the world? |
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Talk of moral obligation turns me off. Who are we trying to convince? Ourselves? By what method of persuasion? Talking down to ourselves?
Do it for reasons that harmonize with More...
I think we are all, both individually and as an institution morally obligated to share our resources with the rest of the world. That could mean, in terms of our More...
Let's assume that we, the Harvard community, accept resource sharing as a moral obligation.
We then have a responsibility to make sure we share in the most responsible manner; one More...
I agree with the author. I watched HLS Beekman Fellow Professor Larry Lessig argue before the Supreme Court of the United States last week about this same issue and I More...
"Knowledge" seems an overbroad term.
If the knowledge is already packaged (analysis performed, report written and digitized), then there are many useful ways to share it with the larger community. More...
In answer to the first question, "...will the information really be more accessible than if it were published in, say, the journal "Science"?" I believe that it would be because More...
I whole-heartedly agree with:
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Show me a researcher who doesn't want to publish in the most prestigious possible forum, and I'll show you a person who isn't on More...
How does the prompt question (Harvard's obligation to "the rest of the world") follow from the quotation (internalizing tacit knowledge of the community of practice)?
To me, the two are More...
Someone has compared using the deluge of information afforded by the internet to trying to fill a teacup with a firehose. There will be, either by accident or design, increasing More...
First off let me say that I am a student at the Graduate School of Education and an alumnus of the College's psychology department, so that is the context for More...
Harvard has a moral responsability to share its resources/talent/curiosity with as many as it can while being humble about what it has to offer.
Tactically, this is a good move More...