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I happened to see the opening session an the one on Asian experience in China, Afghanistan and India. I was pretty impressed with the way the lectures were conducted at the central Agricultural Univ and relayed through Satellite dish to rural centers and how practical classes were also conducted from tiem and time. The program had about 30,000 centers and 1.8 million graduates.
However, the one in India and Afghanistan were not so enthusing. The NGO in India was primarily using the hi-tech rural radio/cable tv center to promote commuity participation and public awareness. I think it is a very costly way of building a civil society in rural areas. Mahatma Gandhi was able to rouse up the masses by living and working with them, and no technology needed for that. Though rural, illiterate people cannot read newspapers or pamphlets so radio/TV is good, but I feel using humans to moblize people is a cheaper option, though I am not sure, if you calculate the cost of their salaries.
Afghans used some Hi-tech CD-radio to trasmit school lectures to rural villages- 7,000 such radios were sent to rural areas. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to train teachers to teach in such places . If those who are coming forward to be responsible for keeping these hi-fi radios are literate, they could be trained to teach others.
There is no evaluation of how effective these programs have been. I assume atleast some of them might be using the radio system to listen to film music than for teaching the village kids.
Any comments?
Umesh ------------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:45:40 -0400 "Umesh Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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