E-mentoring forums - The Orange Room

Comrade Bassam

Dear Comrades,

As a student myself, and since learning is a main issue in life, I often get offers for memberships in organisations that deal with the profession that I am seeking to be part of.

Surfing the pages of those organisations, we see that they do huge seminars that usually change a lot in technology.

Not only, all those organisations provide E-mentoring, which means - for those who don't know - providing advice through net forums and direct contact between students and highly experienced professionals.

Unfortunately, all I see is that this service is mainly helpful for 1st world students, mainly in the USA and some parts of Europe and Eastern Asia.

Why don't Lebanese professional organisations provide this kind of assistance to new students in order to lead them to the right that suits their vision ?

Is it the role of professional syndicates to do so ?

Is it a problem of fear of competition and lack of opportunities ?

Is it a problem of "nobody came up with that idea" ?

Is it a problem of logistics ?

Unfortunately, we're university students who live in permanent concern about their future and about the fields they should enter and the paths they should follow everyday in order to be successful and really find what we really want.

I wonder if anybo0dy one day will have the initiative...

LONG LIVE FREE LEBANON
COMRADE BASSAM

LebanonUSA

It's an interesting issue you bring up Comrade. What makes it more interesting is the fact the professionals in Lebanon are so much better than here in the US.

I will use my wife as an example...

She has a degree in Computer Science from NDU and worked for a Lebanese company before moving here to the US. Over here, she is working for a contractor for the Pentagon. Here's the scary part, the people she works with over here, each has 10 to 15 years of I.T. experience, and are amazed by what she does! The professionals here are no up to par, and what really kicks them in the a$$ is the fact that she gained her knowledge and experience from Lebanon! And they're the ones who're supposed to be technologically advanced!

So Bassam, e-mentoring in Lebanon will result in one of two things: either make the Lebanese professionals even better than what they are, or make the Lebanese professional rely on himself less and get supported through these e-mentoring programs, thus losing some his capabilities...

Comrade Bassam

Interesting!

Maybe it all just needs someone to start it...
I hope I will not convince myself of starting such a project but it would be nice if there was one out there...

Comrade Bassam

jiugiusti

Bassam,

You raised an important idea which tackled my mind a couple of years ago.

But we have at least 2 obstacles here:
- One is that I believe that we need an affordable high internet connection speed which does not exist in lebanon (which seems done so intentionally)
- We need to create associations which seems to be hard in lebanon due to complicated laws related to the formation of associations.

Again, if we want to advance in lebanon, we don't need big things from the governments; we need practical infrastructured things like organised administrations, simple laws, fast executions, ADSL, etc... while the government keeps brainwashing the masses with ideas like freedom, democrach, etc....