The lovely thing about the Internet, and the world in general, is that we do not make decisions like "the Internet shall appear in Bengali." What we do is we make it technically feasible, and we endeavour to empower people to make their own choices, individually and aggregately, as to what their Internet will look like. It's difficult to figure out what that means, and to surrender our own prejudices. Where "we" is, I don't know, the folks who are in positions to move their worlds in one direction or another.
Will it not be most likely that folks will write to a local or regional audience in the appropriate language, and learn and use English to participate in the more global exchanges? Dave, thank you for your message, it made me do some good thinking. FWIW, you would do yourself a favor to promote operating systems that can be popped into a different language with ease. Does anyone want to fly me from Managua to Missouri? I want to meet Sasha and all the other fabulous folks who will be congregating there. Love, Peter Abrahamsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Libre de Ometepe / Nicaragua, Central America _______________________________________________ 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.
