Broader ambition

Other companies with comparable 250-million-liter paint capacities are Japan s Nippon Paint and Kansai Paint, as well as America s Du Pont. These three firms, however, have restricted their ambitions to filling the needs of their home markets. With a broader international base, Courtaulds subsidiary, International Paints, ranks among the top ten, although it is mainly involved in the very special sector of marine paints. 

A third approach, and one that has characterized our own efforts throngh the years is to connect, as much as possible, the technical-scientific components of the project work to broader contexmal issues, and to ntix something of the more instm-mental ambition of the market-oriented approach with the reflective ambition of the academic approach. In the lectures we have introduced the students to the cultural history of science and technology and to some of the public debates that have taken place in relation to science and technology. Students are also introduced to political... 

These four main groups are one way of looking at the complex web of information distribution and Internet access provision. They have parallels to each other and contribute to each other s contents. The main recognition is that the internet access provision is not only a simple issue of technology provision but it also reflects broader societal and communal ambitions and values that have impacts on everyday life. 

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