Training for Development: Internet and Entrepreneurial Training in
Venezuela
Maldonado, H. and Morrison, K
Global Networking into the Future Conference: Universities Facing Globalization 1999
The Internet offers a unique opportunity for developing countries, as one of the few
emerging fields where the industrialized countries' leverage over developing countries has yet to
be established, as well as for the entrepreneurs in such countries, to sell their goods and services
to an international markets. Yet in early 1998 there did not seem to exist a significant presence of
Venezuelan Internet Entrepreneurship. This study examines the present limitations of available
Internet Entrepreneurship training in Venezuela, by analyzing the curricula and degree
requirements of four Venezuelan universities, and contrasting it with those of Stanford
University. Furthermore, this study then draws from interviews with executives, professors,
professionals and students to verify the results of the curriculum survey and to ascertain the
perceptions of university graduates in computer science vis-a-vis the labor market.
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