The fact that it's hidden from most people's sight, and that it has become so utterly reliable and efficient to the point of transparency, doesn't make it any less of an achievement of human technical endeavour.
Increasingly, it is evident that the problem areas attached to these projects stretch beyond technical issues: they must be considered as socio-technical endeavours embedded in complex institutional frames.
But we have to remember that software engineering is inherently a socio-technical endeavour, with complex practices, activities and cultural aspects that cannot be externalized or captured by tools alone.
Because urban planning draws upon engineering, architectural, and social and political concerns, it is variously a technical profession, an endeavour involving political will and public participation, and an academic discipline.
First to swim or fly across the Channel, first to ascend into space, first on the Moon, on Mars – these great endeavours, for all their technical accomplishment, have a childlike quality.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF are supporting the Government of Angola in these endeavours, by providing financial and technical assistance in vaccine procurement, capacity building, epidemiologic surveillance and social mobilization.
The aim of this endeavour would be to identify technical implications and limitations and suggest viable solutions.
Utilising established research evidence and collaboratively creating new knowledge is a relational endeavour as much as a technical one 18 and is therefore likely to require a high level of social skills on the part of the researcher.
New Amsterdam does not have the attitudes of old Amsterdam.Poor countries will often lack the financial means, technical expertise or political institutions necessary for such endeavours.
If this wasn't an E3 of huge surprises and glittering debuts, it was one of solid endeavour, of development teams using their technical expertise with the current console platforms to get the most from well-known "brands".
Within this emerging endeavour, organizational learning and social and technical skills become increasingly important to enable faster and leaner operations.
