By on 16-12-2009 at 06:12
Team: Kosta, Tori, Salina, Zeesy
We think that access to information in a human right, however, the reality is that 4 out of 5 people do not have internet access. The Samara Network (Space Camp) will fill in the coverage gap with a network of satellites, ground stations, and inexpensive handsets. The idea is not new, but the perspective is: communication no longer comes at a cost. 5 billion disconnected people will have equal access to a ubiquitous, free, and reliable information service.
We think that access to information in a human right, however, the reality is that 4 out of 5 people do not have internet access. The Samara Network (Space Camp) will fill in the coverage gap with a network of satellites, ground stations, and inexpensive handsets. The idea is not new, but the perspective is: communication no longer comes at a cost. 5 billion disconnected people will have equal access to a ubiquitous, free, and reliable information service.
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…and the 5 billion disconnected people are hungry, too… In your vision, they will have mobile and desktop devices, sorted out by the first world, to get connected. They have “equal access to a ubiquitous, free, and reliable information service”, probably proudly sponsored by Tcom.
Now about the food problem… how to solve this problem? Some people might take over some IT and programmer jobs, and the rest? They can’t eat the plastic parts, the silicon chips and the brushed metal, made of resources which they and their friends and family exploited some time ago for the First World PC production.
Questions, only questions… I do not dare to share any opinion, because I’m not into your project and I do not know if you have any solutions. I just wanna ask.
an excellent point Carl.
I have a simple response, allow me quote the wisdom of the ancient Chinese:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
And if you had any curiosity as to some fishing techniques, allow me to direct you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_techniques
Cheers,
Kosta
http://ahumanright.org
Refering to the Chinese quote, the free web for everyone will make everyone have food. How? Teach them how to work as gold farmers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
Please no sarcasm this time – the topic is too serious.
What makes you think that this is sarcastic, Kosta is demonstrating the educational capabilities of the internet.
By providing access to knowledge that can enable people to interact with their environment more effectively, you grant them the ability to help themselves.
This knowledge ranges from perma-culture, to energy production, well construction to environmental management, and beyond.
I call it sarcasm if he shows me a website where I could learn how to fish.
The people do not want to “interact with their environment more effectively”, (in 1st place) they just want to live, to eat, to be healthy.
Give a man in Burkina Faso a wi-fi laptop (doesn’t care how old it is) and he will trade it for food or medicine to cure his child. Or the next man without such device will kill him.
How could he learn about energy production if there is no energy to run the computer? Where should they realise the taught perma-culture if China, India, EU and USA are buying millions of hectars of land to produce food for their own countries and selling the rest for high prices to the people who live nearby the farms?
Good-natured people try to bring education to the Third World at least for 50 years, and it didn’t work out. Why should it work out now with a communication system and hardware which make them even more dependant on the First World than back in the 1990s where the helpers brought teachers and books about perma-culture?
I think this sounds incredible!
Would love for you to write an article on the topic!
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Caroline
I think this sounds incredible!
Ww would love for you to write an article on the topic!
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