Thanks for this, Yaw. Kentaro's piece really was great. It reminds me of Phil Agre's "Building an Internet Culture," which is here for any interested: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9711/msg00026.html Sam On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@gmail.com> wrote:
"Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it." -- Kentaro Toyama
kentaro has a great piece on technology and poverty at http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/ndf_technology.php. make sure to read the responses from nicholas negroponte, nathan eagle, dean karlan, jenny aker, archon fung, christine zhenwei qiang, evgeny morozov and ignacio mas. _______________________________________________ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change