This blog originated, at least in my mind, as a sort of electronic scrapbook to assist with co-authoring a new book on ICT development in Korea, entitled Digital Development in Korea: Building an Information Society. My position at the Fulbright Commission in late 2007 also involved management responsibilities for our networks and web-based technology, so I also thought it would be a good idea to learn what blogging was all about.
To date, I have learned a bit about blogging and this forum has proved useful as an electronic note-taking device or scrapbook. However, my experience has also demonstrated the value of blogging as a social networking tool. Through this modest blogging effort (averaging short of three posts per week over the past three years!) I have met a dozen or so very interesting people with a common interest in the rapidly evolving ICT sector here in Korea. Some of these people are scholars, some journalists and some are involved in business ventures, but they are people I might not have met without the blog. Enough said.