Author: gnrocha

Article originally written for my Langara's Management Information Systems course - 06/15/2018 Even when access is provided, quality of use adds another component to the divide – more educated users will theoretically reach out for better quality and relevance, as well as being able to critically analyze what is being seen. Less prepared users may even spend more time connected, but will access poorer sources, and will lack the skills to evaluate the information received. U.S. studies have showed that ‘minority’ children were spending more time accessing media – which is a generic label for everything that can be accessed electronically, good or bad. Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner mention on their debut book “Freakonomics”[1], that · successful/educated parents, · parents that attend PTA meetings, · book availability at…

Professor Alfredo Enrione has pioneered the research, teaching and diffusion of corporate governance in Latin America. In this 2017 article, published by the Ethical Boardroom, he describes "the perceptions of dramatic and volatile change" undergone throughout Latin America, and how executives were reluctant to acknowledge the need for change. Moreover, they were struggling to make sense of those multidimensional shifts. It seems sort of ironic for those who endured the chaotic period from 1980 to 1994 in Brazil, to learn that the notion of an increasing Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous world environment was proposed to describe the perceived new era of international relations surrounding the end of the cold war: it sure describes exactly what it felt like back then! I remember seeing Brazilian executives - and others from…

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