On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > The educated people in rural areas generally get themselves out. If someone > voluntarily chooses to live a subsistence lifestyle, there's no point in > providing them with a free copy of Wikipedia in the first place.
Few people voluntarily chose to be poor or near starvation - they don't have access to appropriate education, economy, and technology to advance. We cannot solve the second any more than the western world has over the last couple of centuries, but we can help with 1 and possibly 3 if we bring knowledge closer to people. WikiHow is probably more hands-on practical for some of this purpose, let's generalize out to "Freely Available info sources" from "Wikipedia" - we could coordinate something but include much more than just our own info. OLPC is focused on kids. That's important. Perhaps a sister program to provide one OLPC or like device per village, with a more adult development / educational / practical hands on skills data set load would be appropriate. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
