Oh, my goodness! If this is why anyone believes that Gandhi's struggle was met with resistance and brutality by colonialism, you're sadly missing the point of human politics and the nature of society, communication and history.
Hats off the the guys at Telecom Italia for pulling our heart strings but while communication may be key to ending global inequity, communication requires that people listen, understand and are willing to accommodate, not that it occurs on one media or another. This is far more complex that any circumstance of technology. Why should crowds fill Red Square, Times Square, tune-in in Roman plazas, meeting rooms at Whitehall, villages in rural Asia and southern Africa just because of ICT? Did they not have newspapers, radio and newsreels at the time of Gandhi but was he still not considered a kin to a terrorist - no matter how much, in hindsight, that we would all plea that he was a man of non-violence? How many of you have visited the Al Jazeera website lately? Imagining the 'digital' divide solely as a matter of access to technology is to poorly estimate the importance of socio-political and economic relations and to incredibly misrepresent the significance of ICT. Media verbiage of this kind are what mask real causes of societal inequity and stints discussion of how to use ICT meaningfully for social change. Oliver Moran Digital Media Centre Dublin Institute of Technology Ireland Oliver (at) sony-youth.com > >>I think that this is a pretty cool way of looking at why the Digital > >>Divide should be bridged. Flash required, but... it's worth it. And I > >>hate flash. But this is really cool, imaginative... and thought provoking. > >> > >>Rohit Gupta wrote: > >> > >>>Gandhi rocks gain... > >>> > >>>http://www.epica-awards.com/assets/epica/2004/winners/film/flv/11071.htm > >>> > >>> > > > >Folks: > > > >Taran is on the money here. For all the reasons he states. Take a peek. > > > >Don Samuelson -- This message has been scanned for content and viruses by the DIT Information Services MailScanner Service, and is believed to be clean. http://www.dit.ie _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
