As you underscore, Ken, moving skills in computer maintenance and repair across the divide along with the hardware and software will help to determine the success of the DDN movement.
So maybe it's a horse of a different color. I'm not sure about "expanding the digital economy." The metaphor of "divide" certainly embraces the economic divide which your phrase underlines, but it also includes the social divide, the cultural divide, the political divide, the education divide. Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenan Jarboe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Eskow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide > Steve -- I wouldn't characterize this as a "dark horse" It is one of the > central facets of bridging the divide -- for if, as you put it, the > "knowledge and skill not readily available in the community" then the > effort to expand the digital economy (a phrase I like better than bridging > the digital divide) will have failed. > Ken Jarboe > > > > At 12:52 PM 3/3/2005, you wrote: > > > A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question: > > > >Is there now available online a good course on computer service and repair > >that woould make it possible for those in the poorer countries to keep their > >computers running? > > > >Whether a computer in a poor community costs $100 or $1000, the odds are > >that it will soon need attention that requires knowledge and skill not > >readily available in the community. > > > >For example: I visited schools in Belize recently that had been given good > >computers by one of the organizations that collects and rehabilitates > >computers and ships them them to those needing them--and most of them were > >covered with clothes waiting for repair that might never happen. > > > >If our Digital Divide Network might focus on this matter of computer service > >and repair, we might attack this matter of the divide from the angle of > >maintenance, and this would be a great contribution to narrowing the divide. > > > >Steve Eskow > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. > Athena Alliance > 911 East Capitol Street, SE > Washington, DC 20003-3903 > (202) 547-7064 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.AthenaAlliance.org > http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org > > > > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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.
