I agree with the idea that mobile phone is the latest ICT gadget; however, there is a lot that remains to be done in terms of broadband penetration.
Jacky Poteau Haiti On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Bijaya Satapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mobile phone now-a-days is the latest ICT gadgets that truly bridges the > digital divide in society. > > The marvel of this product incorporated with IP-technology will let anyone > communicate in Data, Voice, Fax, Audio, Viodeo mode Freely across the > world. > > Thanking you, > > B.K.Satapathy > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm really feeling sorry for the dead horse I've been beating, but it > > seems it needs to run a few more laps. That would be mobile phone - the > > future of computing is being discussed on another email list I > > participate on with the changed context that the mobile phone brings. > > > > In essence, the PC doesn't really know it's dead yet - partly because it > > isn't dead *yet* and also because no one really seems to understand how > > the market is changing. The mobile phone has forever changed the > > landscape - even gaining special mention in the UNESCO report brought > > out this year. If anything, the mobile phone is accidentally closing the > > digital divide. After all, it's ubiquitous even in nations that are > > pretty good at avoiding change (i.e., the developing world). > > > > That said, I have yet to see how disseminating information on bed > > netting on the Internet helps with dengue and malaria - and the same > > applies to irrigation (which I have been doing myself lately). Bed > > netting is a fact of life that many people grow up with - the true > > problem is *affording* it. Irrigation is a common sense use of science > > which varies upon application, so it doesn't translate well to the web > > until you can upload topography and soil type data and assure that the > > results are near perfect. > > > > No, maybe simply participating in discussion is the first step. Thus, > > the mobile phone. The truth is that the developing world doesn't need > > PCs as much as it needs better mobile phones and telecommunications > > regulation. Importing PCs into developing nations that have no legal or > > other infrastructure for disposal only pollutes developing nations that > > need the very fertile soil that is being polluted. The same applies to > > mobile phones as well, unfortunately. > > > > What we need to do, IMHO, is stop playing with the tiger's tail if we > > have no plans for dealing with the teeth. > > > > Steve Eskow wrote: > > > Is it the hardware and software divide that is our central concern > here, > > our > > > goal to get as many computer per capita over there as we have here? Or > is > > > our goal the information and knowledge divide, with the computer the > > > intermediary that gets the information about irrigation and bed netting > > and > > > the alternatives to kerosene lighting to the people who need it? > > > > > > If it's the latter, we might aim to get one computer to a poor rural > > > village, train one literate person in its use, and have him or her get > > the > > > information about irrigation and kerosene and bed netting to the people > > who > > > need it, perhaps using community radio as the disseminator. > > > > > > Is that one way of easing the "digital divide"? > > > > > > Steve Eskow > > > > > -- > > Taran Rampersad > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://www.knowprose.com > > http://www.your2ndplace.com > > http://www.opendepth.com > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ > > > > "Criticize by Creating" - Michelangelo > > "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." > - > > Nikola Tesla > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > body of the message. > > > > > > -- > e-Orissa > Bhubaneswar,India. > Cell:91-9861128546 > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > -- Jacky Poteau, MSW, MCP President, FATEM www.fatem.org Voicemail: 1-866-98-FATEM (983-2836) Skype name: jackypoteau _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
