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 * ===Is it likely that in a time of global recession these companies may limit their involvement in projects of this kind, focusing on core business activities instead? It could be that follow up with these Demo schools may be compromised due to these economic conditions. If so, this would be a clear example of how other ecosystems affect the adoption of innovation.===

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 * ===One of the key aims of the Demonstration Project was to provide a model of best practice that other schools and non-participating countries could observe. Yet Davis (2009) mentions Rogers' (2003) recognition that organisations and individuals may reject an innovation after an earlier adoption, due to various external factors. A global recession could be just such an external factors leading to such a result.===

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 * ===The Demo Project is also an example of the 'Try' stage of the CREATER model, which claims that "Every new change effort should be designed first as a trial, an open experiment that allows innovators to take on new behaviors without undue risk and allows others to watch and begin to model their own changes on the basis of their observation of the demonstration." (Havelock and Hamilton, 2004, np). Rogers (2003) also emphasises Trialability and Observability as key attributes of innovations.===

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 * ===NEPAD has huge involvement from the commercial sector. Davis addresses this with the commercial axis influencing the change process, but I find it almost unbelievable that Fullan and Stiegelbauer (in Ellsworth, 2000) do not include the private sector among their key stakeholders.===

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 * ===In discussing equity, Davis (2008) suggests beginning the introduction of an IT with a disadvantaged group, adapting it to their ecology before introducing it to the majority (p.145). This seems to be just what the Demo Project is doing, or trying to do. It also accords with Rogers' (2003) comments about the importance of indigenous knowledge when introducing an innovation.===

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 * ===Davis (2008) acknowledges that her article relates primarily to "twenty-first century societies in which technology is prevalent" (p. 506), and yet I believe it provides a valuable perspective to the adoption of ITs in developing countries.===

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 * ===I believe further investigation is needed into the relative powers of different stakeholders in more traditional educational contexts in developing countries.===