Hello Dave, Again, I want to draw you back to the discussion when Dave A. Chakrabarti suggested English, as de factor ICT language at present, should be the way we want to look at for the rest of the world.
I again agreed when you mentioned most of the people in these poorer countries are illiterate therefore 'cannot read, cannot write'... but I am sure they can speak and hear/listen (unless of course with physical disabilities) in their own language??? Would you not agree the right thing to do to improve their abilitity of communication to the written/reading world is in THEIR OWN LANGUAGE? For example, citizens of Bukina Faso to whom French is a familiar 'sound', therefore EVEN when they cannot write or read in that language, BUT would you not think teaching them to read and write French would be faster than STARTING them a new to English or German? Cindy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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.
