On 5/20/05, Femi Oyesanya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > What ICT training curriculum do you then introduce to the leadership of, > take for example, a tribe of nomads, so that he/she can begin to think > of policies that will use IT to improve rural livelihood ?
I have been thinking about the essential dichotomy between our urbanised, land-centric view of ICT and the cultures of nomadism. While it seems true that the twain don't meet, it is also true that we need to ensure that nomadism as a way of life not be allowed to vanish. To do this, certainly nomads need to be armored against the creeping growth of landowners. Is ICT going to be another of those tendrils? I believe not, provided the tools can be developed by and placed within the controls of nomads themselves. But how can this happen, if the landowning cultures are the only ones looking for ways to deliver these tools? Nomads too live by rules, only those aren't the same rules as landowners. Current ICT propositions are based on the kind of rules with which fixed-property societies exist. I fear neither hardware nor software solutions exist that truly deliver intelligent edge devices to people who aren't locked to land. I am not sure we have here on this List people who were once from such cultures, who can at least opine with some authority on such a topic. I hope I am wrong. -- Vickram ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For past messages, see: http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/archive.html
