Difference between revisions of "Talk:Student Projects:IT Abroad EastAsia"

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Introductions

Walker

Basic Background: I am enrolled in the Professional Masters Program at UW, and during the day I am a Software Design Engineer in Test for the Windows Server team.

Background on Topic: My knowledge of East Asia consists mostly of what I've read in English books/magazines/newspapers and seen in movies. Other than that I spent a couple of weeks vacation time in Thailand (and went on the airport sponsored afternoon tour of Singapore). That being said one of my hobbies on the side is to read policy books and the last few months or so I have been reading a lot on East Asia. I find the region interesting because it seems clear to me that the world's economic and cultural center of gravity is shifting to it, and I don't think many westerners have taken a good look at the implications.

Tentative Project Interests:

• IT interrelationships in East Asia -- Focusing specifically on the growing intercooperation of East Asian nations in IT. In particular, there seems to be an interesting story to tell regarding the growing ties between China, Japan, and South Korea... IPV6, mobiles, Linux; what are the implications for Open Source, and the broader structure of the software industry? What are the economic motivations for increasing ties?

• IT Ecosystem in Japan -- How does IT fit into Japan's overall industrial policy? How does Japan's ecosystem compare to that of the United States? What is Japan's role in the growing cooperation between Japan, China, and South Korea in IT?

EimanZ

Basic Background: Hello, I'm a Microsoft Software Developer in the TabletPC/MobilePC test team. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley. I was born in Iran and lived there until I was 6, and moved to CA with my family after that.

Background on Topic: As I was looking around the Wiki and saw the topic of IT Abroad, i immediatly started wondering how the IT industry functions in a country like Iran. Iran, as you all may know, is under sanctions from the U.S., and its relations with other countries have only recently been getting better. I've taken courses on Iran and read up all the time on news about Iran. Focusing on Iran's IT industry is new to me, however, because i only recently realized how much was going on over there.

The IT industry seems to be heavily regulated (as with most other industries in Iran) yet there is a revolution going on with the youth of Iran and their expansive use of the Internet. Thus, i really want to focus on Iran's IT, and i think that, if we wanted to, we can take all the different profiles of countries and try to create a main thesis around the paper. My thoughts are that we'll see in all these countries a tendency for government to want to control the industry (and some succeeding), and yet the population's tendency to promote freedom of information, and the corporations playing in between, attempting to please both customer and the government.

Tentative Project Interests:

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IT Abroad: East Asia - Discussion

Avichal Hi, I read this project page and Talk:IT Abroad and would be interested in joining your group, if it’s ok with you.
We do need some work on finalizing a topic out of the ones suggested and defining it’s scope. As to selecting a country, my vote would be for Japan, it’ll be a great opportunity to compare and contrast with the US public policies regarding IT.

Covering a region would be interesting too. Particularly if we focus on Inter-cooperation amongst the countries mentioned, covering how policy has shifted over the years, and how it has impacted the IT environment, what policies need to be adopted to move the region into an IT leadership position…etc

Between the 2 (One nation, or a Region), it’s a tossup. If covering a region we could each cover one nation to start with, and then ofcourse exhange notes. If we are covering a single nation, we could divide by areas:-

• Nation’s policy relating to Workforce
• Government Sponsor/Aid/Funding
• IT Environment: University/Government/Industry
• Collaboration with other countries on IT…etc.

I am not sure if you attend class at UW or Microsoft. If at UW, then we can discuss before/after the class. We could also discuss with Professor Ed Lazowska in order to narrow down and select a final topic scope