Dear Ashish Saboo, Thank you for the courteous disagreement: you show us the kind of communication that tries to avoid the anger that underlies violence.
I think that after a bit more discussion we would find ourselves agreeing. You cite Andrew Grove's image of steel, which intrinsically is neither good nor bad, but can become a revolver or a syringe depending on how society uses it. The telecenter, then, like steel, has a potential for harm as well as good. I find images of medicine more useful to my thinking. There is no medicine, no wonder drug, that is useful for any ailment, any patient. We practitioners need to adopt for our work the model of "diagnosis" before "prescription." If a "community" is the "patient," we doctor-practitioners have to study the symptoms of that community to determine if a particular drug will be beneficial now.. In the case of the powerful drug called a "telecenter," there are times and communities when that drug needs to be delayed or avoided until there is a readiness to benefit from it. Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Ashish Saboo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 5:14 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Cc: John Hibbs; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: RE: [DDN] Digital Divide, Telecentres and Iraq [Dr. Steve Eskow] _______________________________________________ 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.
