What I learned

       A photo of all of us at the theater. From left to right: Lou Anne, 

Ms. Shobha, Darrell, Dr. Kanti, Me, Parakh, and Omeed.

            My trip to India with Dr. Kanti was a once in a lifetime experience. I learned so much about knowledge management and about the country through taking the course.  Pursuing my MLS degree gave me background on libraries but having to take all that learned information and putting it into practice was an invaluable result of visiting and speaking with all the information specialists at the various sites we went to. I also learned about the knowledge management practices of a developing nation such as India. 

            India is a land of contradictions and there is more to the country than what meets the eye. On one hand there are places like Infosys which appears to have the best management model and information practices out of all the institutions visited. This is because it has integrated most of the different approaches to knowledge managements into one comprehensive model. Yet, on the other hand there are still large discrepancies between the very rich and the Still, as a whole, India is an energetic and hopeful country that has much to teach other nations of the world about how to have and create a global view of information management.

            On a non-educational front, it was great getting to travel to a country I may not have been able to visit otherwise. The people are so friendly, the food is fantastic, and India is just really a wonderful place to visit.