Discusses the use of Internet-based resources in international technology transfer. Topics include hearing about technology via conferences and newsgroups, how the Internet accommodates various languages, advantages of electronic mail, cultural differences and computer-mediated communication, and successful strategies for using Internet search…

This paper problematizes the bifurcation of technology and tradition and its implied unidirectional transformative authority of technology. It divides the multitude of responses to the relation between technology and culture into these three categories: technology as the messenger and the message, technology as a messenger without an inherent…