What a sick world.
]]>Bridging the digital divide is a useful metaphor, at least pointing to an important opportunity. But one problem with the metaphor is the presumption that the way things are on both sides of the divide are the same. To make make digital information and to share it in many places in Africa means paying attention to differences.
Inveneo http://www.inveneo.org/ gets it and so does Green Wifi http://www.green-wifi.org/ I read an interesting essay today http://www.exmosis.net/node.SocialInterfaces not directly related to digital culture in Africa, but I think relevant to it. In that essay is a link to the Dynamo Project http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/interact/projects/dynamo.htm It’s worth thinking about offline networks in Africa.
Digital media players like iPods can create networks in ways that are very useful in places where electricity, Internet access and computers are scarce. I’d be pleased if Apple gave their proceeds from this Red Ad campaign in the form of iPods to organizations working to prevent AIDS and treating people living with HIV.
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Gap is doing something similar with clothing… good idea nonetheless
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