Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:51:32 -0400 >
From: Daniel PIMIENTA <[email protected]>

THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS BEEN WRITEN BY Bruce Girard <[email protected]> TO [email protected] LIST AND FORWARDED TO LISTA MISTICA BY DANIEL PIMIENTA

An interesting paper by: "Bruce Girard" <[email protected]> written for the Voices issue based on the GK2 conference: "Radio Broadcasting and the Internet: Converging for development and democracy" http://www.comunica.org/kl/girard.htm

The paper is introduced by Bruce in the [email protected] mailing list (http://www.comunica.org/) in a provocative manner:

>The draft Action Plan of the Global Knowledge Partnership http://www.globalknowledge.org
> a group
>that includes international
>organisations such as the World Bank, national development
>organisations like Canada's IDRC, and NGOs, highlights radio as a
>priority for bringing knowledge to developing countries.
>
>Unfortunately, the vision that is articulated there is one of radio
>as "an effective outreach to discuss and create a demand for the
>Internet." I don't think the objective is to create unfulfillable
>demand for access to the Internet in remote areas of developing
>countries, but to respond to the need/demand for information and
>communication.
>
>The projects mentioned in this article aren't marketing tools for the
>Internet, they are ways of quickly and efficiently getting relevant
>information from the Internet to the communities that need it, without
>waiting for someone to string the wires, deliver the computers, and
>launch the satellites that will enable the planet's 6 billion to gain
>access.

http://funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/production/c4/0184.html
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