Hello, 2010/5/7 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 2010/5/7 Noein <prono...@gmail.com>: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >> > Now, one of the unsolved questions of the WMF is: how do we plan to >> > communicate with analphabets? >> >> Thinking that analphabets would get encyclopedic knowledge through VR >> shows a big misunderstanding of how the cause of analphabetism. >> If people are analphabets is because they lack the resource to have a >> proper education, so they won't get any access to a computer, much >> less to Internet and VR worlds. >> > > I can tell you of my experience with people from Kosovo who are not native > english speakers, many of have a hard time reading anything longer than 140 > characters. The dont like to read and books are very expensive, and the > written language is very different than the spoken one. > > > But they *will* watch videos, or listen to some talk, even in english or > german or do something interactive. > That is why we need videos of people (or computers) reading articles to them > that they can pop into their dvd player or have share. more people have > some form of ability to play dvds. > > The mit ocw distributes hdds of data to schools with no internet access, > they include video lectures and alot of material. very good stuff. > > I can imagine, but may be wrong, that in most villages in world, even the > poorest, where 99% of the people done have computers and such, at least one > person or school in town will have some form of dvd player. In fact, you > could distribute articles in image format for a normal dvd player as well.
For a DVD player, you are a bit too optimist, for there is not even electricity everywhere. But many people have a mobile phone nowadays, so we could try making MP3 available with encyclopedic content. > mike Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l