Alfred,
There is nothing new about the practice-- its been in vogue for centuries
and over a wide range of products and services.
Errol Hewitt
At 10:37 25/10/2005 -0700, you wrote:
This is a terrible practice - sending our garbage to the poor.
But new or old, computers will not be useful without software designed for
applications relevant to the users. If they are illiterate, at any age, the
first software they will need is that for developing literacy, in all its
forms. Since each learner is unique, it should adapt to the individual
person. It is currently useless to connect an illiterate person to the
Internet, or to provide them with any existing computer tools.
Illiteracy is not just a problem in the poor countries. It is all too common
in the United States. So this software is needed everywhere, in many
languages. Why is it not available now?
Alfred Bork
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
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