The author, Gregg Zachary, is an affiliate of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. Gregg has a longer piece on IT Development and Ghana entitled Black Star, available on the CSPO site.
In addition, CSPO Fellow Ron Hira has a number of recent pieces on IT outsourcing, including his recent testimony before the House Small Business Committee, again available at www.cspo.org.
As an astrophysics major I'd like to reiterate that radio telescopes are an incredibly useful tool for astronomers and are not a product of SETI. The merits of SETI aside, projects like the Very Large Array (VLA) and this are a tremedous boon to the field of astronomy. Of particular interest are studies of objects such as QUASARs and Active Galactic Nuclei, many of which are radio sources, and both of which are poorly understood. (An aside, even though QUASAR came from quasi-stellar radio source they are not all radio sources.) For more information on the non-SETI uses of radio astronomy I direct you to NRAO at http://www.gb.nrao.edu/ and the FIRST survey at http://sundog.stsci.edu/ . These sites are of course only a sample and are the first ones that came to my mind.
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The author, Gregg Zachary, is an affiliate of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. Gregg has a longer piece on IT Development and Ghana entitled Black Star, available on the CSPO site.
In addition, CSPO Fellow Ron Hira has a number of recent pieces on IT outsourcing, including his recent testimony before the House Small Business Committee, again available at www.cspo.org.
And, yes, I do currently work at CSPO.
As an astrophysics major I'd like to reiterate that radio telescopes are an incredibly useful tool for astronomers and are not a product of SETI. The merits of SETI aside, projects like the Very Large Array (VLA) and this are a tremedous boon to the field of astronomy. Of particular interest are studies of objects such as QUASARs and Active Galactic Nuclei, many of which are radio sources, and both of which are poorly understood. (An aside, even though QUASAR came from quasi-stellar radio source they are not all radio sources.) For more information on the non-SETI uses of radio astronomy I direct you to NRAO at http://www.gb.nrao.edu/ and the FIRST survey at http://sundog.stsci.edu/ . These sites are of course only a sample and are the first ones that came to my mind. Antiam