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 5/10 Good --- www.reason.com http://www.reason.com/topics/topic/147.xml
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 --- 127 days ago http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126000.html
| There are, roughly speaking, three broad approaches to Third World development. There are those who would preserve poverty by keeping development itself at a minimum. There are those who would modernize poverty by imposing coercive, centralized systems on indigenous societies. And there are those who want to make more tools available to Third World people themselves, to accept or reject as they see fit, to discover their own uses for the technologies, to adapt them to their own evolving ways of life. One potential tool for autonomy, resting at the intersection between high tech and the human scale, is the cell phone. Sara Crobett writes in The New York Times : Something that's mostly a convenience booster for those of us with a full complement of technology at our disposal -- land-lines, Internet connections, TVs, cars -- can be a life-saver to someone with fewer ways to access information. A "just in time" moment afforded by a cellphone looks a lot different to a mother in Uganda who needs to carry a child with malaria three hours to visit the nearest doctor but who would like to know first whether that doctor is even in town. It looks different, too, to the rural Ugandan doctor who, faced with an emergency, is able to request information via text message from a hospital in Kampala. [Anthropologist] Jan Chipchase and his user-research colleagues at Nokia can rattle off example upon example of the cellphone's ability to incr ... |
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