Kelaparan, kemiskinan, dsb, awal2nya karena kebodohan, karena pendidikan yang ga terjangkau, ga berkualitas, or simply non-existent.
Programmers can contribute to the betterment by developing affordable (or even better, free and open source) applications related to Education. Why do I say "programmers" instead of "ISVs"? Because ISVs--just like any other business entity-- do business for profit, and nothing wrong with that, it's the human that have heart ;-) There are many good (FOSS) solutions to e-learning, yet nobody develops high quality (FOSS) Information *System* for the institutes (below universities). That's why i promoted dewantara, to make SIS (student information system) available for the mass. My current task is creating sample data, hundreds of them, to show the vast coverage of dewantara's architecture (http://trac2.assembla.com/dewantara/ticket/10). This part is damn time-consuming. Please see http://trac2.assembla.com/dewantara/wiki/Vision_id for some ideas behind the project. Sorry jadi 'jualan' :D 2008/4/19 Feris Thia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear All, > > Mungkin kedengarannya terlalu idealis.... tapi sepertinya masalah2 kelaparan > yang mulai menggejala seperti berikut ini dan laporan dari Bank Dunia untuk > situasi global cukup mengkhawatirkan. Apa pengaruhnya terhadap kita ya ? > Terutama kita berkarir di IT dan umumnya berdomisili di kota ? Dampak dan > mungkin tanggung jawab sosialnya ? -- salam hangat, Thomas Wiradikusuma http://wiradikusuma.blogspot.com/2008/03/cinta-itu-anugrah-jika-kamu-cantik.html
