Comment Re:Problems with the medium (Score 1) 136
Jesus, you have every right, and a moral obligation, to care about what happens to people in other countries - be it Internet access in Africa or otherwise. The reason most of the 'developing world' is in such a disparate state is because of attitudes like yours. You and your fellow country men and women frankly have no right to stampede over these people for the benefit of your own material ego.
The situation in the 'virtual world' is no different to the situation in the 'material world'. Unless policy makers start acting responsibly and users start realising that the way they use the Internet does affect the lives of other people that there is going to different kind of 'digital divide'which the book that started this discussion more than hints at.
Not only that, but unless we as people bring multinational corporations to heel over their involvement in ICT projects in 'the South', then we will have nothing more than what in effect will be digital mercantilism with all the associated issues and baggage of 18th Century mercantilism.
And look at the bloody state that has left us in....
The situation in the 'virtual world' is no different to the situation in the 'material world'. Unless policy makers start acting responsibly and users start realising that the way they use the Internet does affect the lives of other people that there is going to different kind of 'digital divide'which the book that started this discussion more than hints at.
Not only that, but unless we as people bring multinational corporations to heel over their involvement in ICT projects in 'the South', then we will have nothing more than what in effect will be digital mercantilism with all the associated issues and baggage of 18th Century mercantilism.
And look at the bloody state that has left us in....
