Rubin Patterson Livres

Rubin Patterson, a prominent academic in sociology and anthropology, holds a leadership position at Howard University and collaborates with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He has edited a significant work on African Brain Circulation, addressing the complexities of migration and development. Additionally, Patterson has a decade of experience as the founding editor of a journal focused on global development and technology, underscoring his commitment to advancing discourse in these critical areas.

The theme of Science, Technology and Development in Southern Africa, and East and Central Asia is threefold. The first component concerns the proposition that no underdeveloped nation will be empowered to meet the needs and aspirations of its citizens without the adoption of advancing Science & Technology. The adoption of S & T processes by examining the questions of political leadership initiation in Botswana and Singapore is explored in chapters one and two.Component number two engages what is widely regarded as potentially the most enabling cluster of advanced technologies for development in the information technologies (IT). Articles three through five take up IT and development in Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea and Namibia.The final component discusses the crucial subject of technology transfer by comparing Japan's technology transfer to Southeast Asia and Southern Africa.Contributors are James Bozeman, Jong-Ho Kim, Takahashi Motoki, Meera Nanda, Rubin Patterson, Sakano Taichi, Ernest J. Wilson III, and William Wresch.