Digital Delights - Digital Tribes

"What is the knowledge economy, and how should universities respond to it? What is a world-class university, is it desirable for every country, and how can a country acquire one? Should universities cooperate to advance alternate concepts and metrics of productivity and ‘innovation’ in order to change the playing field for all, or should they cooperate with select partners in order to secure competitive advantage against others in a global market? 

Whether or not such questions are engaged by university heads or administrators, the answers will always emerge in practice through the way things are done. Whether a vice-chancellor rhetorically promotes holistic concepts of academic work is less materially significant than what the staff and faculty act out in the ways that they assess and articulate the value of their international projects.

The questioning of the value of internationalisation occurs across many – often international – sites, and in many of these sites there exists the possibility to set norms and practically articulate which kinds of international activities should matter, and why."