I don't think I'm being condescending at all. I wish that I could live in a time when life wasn't so rushed, so connected, so in-your-face. I think it's an arrogant attitude that makes technologically advanced cultures believe that technology automatically makes life better.
Matthew Small Web Developer American City Business Journals 704-973-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:12 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Bringing Internet (and VoIP) to Uganda On the contrary - there, just like here, people benefit from computer skills and access. When I was in Nigeria in 1993, one of my friends there was making a living working on people's computers for them. (He later got a job in Canada because of those skills.) People wanted to be able to communicate, and there were phones - but they were unreliable and difficult to use (invariably, only one of the two people could hear at any one time). It's very condescending to think that people don't want to be in touch with the world around them, simply because they live in a developing country. The idea that they live in a "simple culture" is just uninformed. Much of Africa already has blended culture. Years of missionary work took its toll long ago. On 6/14/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that that phone, computer and Internet improve lives > dramatically. It sounds like the beginning of the end for their simple > culture. > > Matthew Small > Web Developer > American City Business Journals > 704-973-1045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:46 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Bringing Internet (and VoIP) to Uganda > > Quite an interesting little project these folks have going on. > > http://www.inveneo.org/?q=uganda > > At 11:10am PST on June 8th, with a VoIP phone call from the Community > Knowledge Center to the village of Nyamiryango, Inveneo's first solar > and pedal powered communications system went live in the Bukuuku > sub-county, Kabarole district of Western Uganda. This successful > deployment was completed in partnership with ActionAid, and enables > villagers to use a phone, computer and the Internet for the first time > ever, empowering them to use communications and technology to improve > their lives dramatically. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:160730 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
