The intervener--all of us who want to help--studies the culture and the need before choosing a path. Before choosing a technology.
Where there is a "digital divide" there are often--usually--other divides. For example: there may be no Internet in the area to be served. Or there may be Internet but many of the intended beneficiaries have no electricity. Or they cannot read. Cannot read what is on the computer screen, whether it is in English or Twi. That is: there is an "ecology of need." If the good-hearted social entrepreneur does not have a complete map of the territory of need, it is almost certain that he or she will blunder. Steve Eskow On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This post from the Trinidad and Tobago Computing list may be of interest > to some. It demonstrates geographical distribution of social network > use. It is a nice datapoint, I think. > > Richard Jobity wrote: > > ******************************************************************** > > Computing - General Discussion on Computing in Trinidad and Tobago > > > > ******************************************************************** > > http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=336 > > > > With the help of Google data, we have looked at 12 of the top social > > networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: > > > > Where are they the most popular? > > > > The social networks we included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, > > Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, > > Imeem and Twitter. > > Popularity by country (how we got the data) > > > > Google Insights for Search makes this quite easy for you. For a search > > term (for example "MySpace"), it will highlight the regions where that > > search term is the most popular. Google calls this "regional interest". > > > > This "regional interest" should give a good indication of which regions > > (in this case countries) a social network is most popular in. > > > > Google also provides a nice heat map of the results. We have included > > the heapmaps for all the social networks below. > > > > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=imeem&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q > > > > > http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=facebook&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q > > > > -- > Taran Rampersad > Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.knowprose.com > http://www.your2ndplace.com > > Pictures: 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 > [email protected] > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
