Gertjan van Stam
An Analysis of Colonial Conditioning of Relationships in rural Zambia and Zimbabwe
Gertjan van Stam lives in Zimbabwe. He is research fellow in the government’s Science and Industrial
Technology Development Centre (SIRDC). He has been involved with strategic developments in ICT in
Africa since 1987 and holds an Mtech (cum laude) from NMMU (RSA). He is a PhD candidate at Tilburg
University.
Gertjan’s goal is to engender recognition of indigenous progress in communities and to identify and
inspire local talent. His academic quest is for a contextual framework on the outset and dynamics of
change in Africa. He engages in continuous transdisciplinary action research and disseminates his
deductions in person and writings within local, national and international settings.