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 > [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. > -- e-Orissa Bhubaneswar,India. Cell:91-9861128546 _______________________________________________ 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.
