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Thanks for your detailed reply. As I said, information has a role in everything, but I don't think these examples are especially about information, in the sense of an IT-worker. 1. Ethiopia's ruler needed someone credible to tell him. 2. Training a surgeon is about skill and knowledge, more than information. 3. How is opening a "College of Midwives" about information, except in the general sense that education involv…
Getting the right information to the right people is key to success. There are people as skilled and knowledgeable as these doctors who can only have great impact when they work together with information systems.
Absolutely, IT has a general role everywhere. Dare I say on par with language, writing, printing press, etc.