Like I said, in the Knowledge company/digital age, the Internet allows all these components of what makes a profession to be thrown out of Ivory towers and allows average people with the drive, commitment and passion to become professionals and to create new professions that did not exist a decade ago.<br><br>On Saturday, November 5, 2016, alex watila <<a href="mailto:awatila@yahoo.co.uk">awatila@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">a profession requires a recorgnised body of knowledge, ethics that members abide by, research going on in the body of knowledge and recognition</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 Nov 2016 15:22, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'colfaxregular','avantgardegothicitcw01b 731069','nimbus sans tw01','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:'georgia','itc century w01 light';line-height:25px">"The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines “profession” as “a calling requiring specialised knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation”.Does IT/ICT, therefore, qualify as a “profession” or vocation? Yes, of course, it does."</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:'georgia','itc century w01 light';line-height:25px">Long and intensive academic preparation? In the knowledge economy/digital age, the length has been drastically reduced.Perhaps there needs to be a new definition of the term "profession" that takes into consideration things like e-learning and "YouTube university". ICT underpines every profession so a doctor can be an IT expert in the medical field. With all due respect, the ICT sector is still growing and there's going to be a whole lot of chaos, I mean, innovation, before order is brought.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:'georgia','itc century w01 light';line-height:25px">Regards,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:'georgia','itc century w01 light';line-height:25px">Mildred Achoch.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:'georgia','itc century w01 light';line-height:25px"><br></p></div>On Saturday, November 5, 2016, Kamotho Njenga via kictanet <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke');" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Oracles from the father of Kenya's Internet......<div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/It-is-high-time-order-was-brought-to-the-ICT-sector/440808-3441276-9qfmmgz/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/O<wbr>pinion/It-is-high-time-order-w<wbr>as-brought-to-the-ICT-sector/4<wbr>40808-3441276-9qfmmgz/index.ht<wbr>ml</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kamotho</div></div></div>
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