Curious reluctance

South Africans display a curious reluctance to adopt new technology.

I was discussing a project plan today with a client who uses my services in social and economic development projects. I suggested that we look at using the Google Groups type of approach to publish and develop the documents. She said, “We’ve tried it before but it didn’t work very well. We couldn’t get people to make changes to the documents.”

Since this is echoes my own experience with this group I started to wonder why this is. When we discussed it further she said, “I think people are too scared to expose themselves.”

I agreed with her in a general sense – I’m certainly not going to expose myself, but does that also mean electronically too? Do we really suffer such from a lack of confidence? Why is it that no one wants to pick up the conversation? How many of you have had the urge to start a blog?