On my way to Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic and Yerushalayim in Hebrew) I plan to make two stops. First, I will visit the technical communication program at Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. At the University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, I will be particularly interested to find out how our universities' curricula compare, what sorts of jobs their graduates find after graduation, and the relationships they have built with industry. I hope to further an already strong relationship with their program so that our students can continue to collaborate on assignments online and perhaps enter into exchanges in the future.
Second, I will fly on to Bengalooru (Bangalore), India, where I want to visit with technical communication professionals and students and learn about the IT industry there. Some of the jobs that get "out sourced" from the United States end up in Bengalooru. There is a robust domestic software industry there as well. I have bought a copy of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat whose thesis I intend to investigate while in India. He discusses his trips to Bengalooru in the New York Times: read It's a Flat World, After All (April 3, 2005) and read as well Bangalore: Hot and Hotter (June 8, 2005) for his observations on Bengalooru and its role in the world IT economy.
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