A policy directed towards technological self reliance does not imply technological self sufficiency explain?

Answer 1

This question can more succinctly be stated as, "What is the difference between self-reliance and self-sufficiency."

Basically, a policy directed towards technological self reliance is a policy that encourages the group (or company or whatever) to rely upon its own technological devices to get by. However, it would not discourage the use of outside technology for areas that are not critical to the group's operation and in which it would make more sense to outsource technology for a non-critical function. For instance, the company may use a third-party server to host its website, but would have an IT person on staff who can manage and run the server and be called upon if there are any problems or if the server goes down.

A policy directed toward self sufficiency would require that the company need no outside technology whatsoever to operate on a day-to-day basis. This company would have its own server with its own administrator, etc.

A company with neither policy in place might outsource the server to a hosting company, and outsource the IT to an IT company.