Session One - Threats and Opportunities

Discussion

Mr Rogers Okot-Uma: Commonwealth Secretariat:

My question goes to Professor Swaminadhan. You have suggested quite a number of models and they are quite innovative. Now my question, or at least my observation, is that a number of things indicated there tend to be what we have seen before. My concern is the mode of interaction between the various entities that are involved in the model. What is the role of the engineer? Has there been or is there going to be a paradigm shift for example in the nature of interactions? One of the things that I have in mind is that, as we approach the next millennium, there have been many paradigm shifts: in terms of interaction electronically for example. I did not hear anything concerning that. Has there or has there not been a mode for the engineer to make a shift towards the electronic age?