At 12:52 PM 9/14/99 +0700, you wrote:
>Some of them might managed to own cheapy old PC's. But to them,
>the internet is still viewed as an exclusive stuff, partly because
>most ISPs (even free/low-cost ISPs) tends to advertise their
>services as only useable with up-to-date computers, which these
>people simply can't afford.
>
>So, there are ways to get in floating around in the cyberspace, but
>these folks who *outside* the cyberspace's "outher sphere boundary"
>can't get in, mainly because they are not aware of those "insider-
>only" knowledge! Well, how they can learn those if they are totally
>outsiders? <g>
>
>In the other hand, how *we* can effectively reach out beyond the
>cyberspace to tell them how to get in? Any ideas guys? ;)
>--Eko
Here in my community it doesn't seem that getting the computers to people
and getting them on the net isn't the most difficult part of getting these
machines to the poor. The thing that concerns me most is protecting those
machines from the abuse which is so rampant within the poor
community. People don't take care of their things. Her boyfriend takes
the baseball bat to it to threaten her, his cousin pawned it for a bottle
of whiskey and some smokes, the kids tried to put their plastic mutating
dinosaurs in the floppy drive to eat the peanut butter and crackers last
inserted. That is what scares me, the lack of care, parental supervision,
appreciation.
If you try the cybercafe model, you wind up with a lot of freeloaders who
never leave yet cannot behave with consideration and your business becomes
a homeless shelter! Yes, I realize it's a "worst case scenario" but
poverty is the worst case and I've lived on the edge since leaving my
parents home. These people are my neighbors and sometimes my friends and
I've seen it all. Most of those who most need the connection with
cyberspace are the ones i would least likely place a computer with, unless
that computer were made tough enough for apes! It isn't just availability
of computers that gets in the way.
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