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The Future of U.S. Technical Cooperation with Korea
The Future of US Technical Cooperation with Korea Author:Walter Orr Roberts Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: data banks of international organizations (the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, Industrial Development Organization, for instance) , or of national agen... more »cies in the United States and Western Europe. (The Clearing House for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, a unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is one of a number of major American information sources KORSTIC could tap.) As Korea's central channel for the procurement of foreign scientific and technical information, KORSTIC warrants continuing attention. In particular, it should be helped to take advantage of freely available information services abroad, and to orient itself to the rapidly changing information technology and international information- exchange systems of this era. Social and Civic Modernization We propose to use the term "social and civic modernization" as a unifying concept for a variety of problem areas that are predominantly social and political in character. Some of these fit logically under this heading by virtue of conventional definition; others do so conveniently by virtue of Title IX considerations. Most of these problem areas bear close relation to higher education since they require enhanced indigenous capability in various types of advanced training and I'esearch. Among these the social science disciplines are particularly relevant to social and civic modernization and provide exceptional opportunities for genuinely cooperative and mutually beneficial activities by Korean and American professionals. We consider here only a few, more visible problem areas, primarily to illustrate the crucial relevance of social and civic modernization to the future development of Korea. We are mindful of the fact that in a situation of dynamic growth, problems infringe upon each other a...« less