Being@: keep company with electronic evidence!

Abstract

The title heading this paper Being@ keep company with electronic evedence is referring to an university training on the Internet which is processing insight into how science 'works' (in the active sense of the word) under the articulation of information- and communication technology (ICT) and pursuing this aim by means of ICT. The programme is called Ommat. It connects ideas we put forward in earlier work [Kooistra et al., 2000]. There we concluded that the paper sources and the networks of paperpresenting scientists as they existed during the 20e era, will vanish and that we are facing an outward oriented ICT-methodology which can handle the situation of being connected the digital way. The consequence of the ICT methodology, we say, is that one is persistent at an address (being@) in a process of growing intelligence. One is (part of) a Growing Intelligent Agent: a Gi@'. Ommat covers these ideas. About this programme, its theoretical notions, its didactics and some of its results among 800 students this paper reports.