A personal refection by Karim Aman on Social Research in third world context

Commoditization of knowledge has created questions about ethical legitimacy of research and knowledge production. You sell my dreams, my problems my miseries in the name of research but what you have done to ease my suffering. Your copy right laws and regulations seem inhumane efforts to deprive poor countries from benefiting the exiting body of knowledge…In majority of the cases research has now become a filthy game of money making rather then a social duty…

More with video: http://karimaman.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/a-video-reflection-on-research/

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