<incom> working papers on ICT

[Felipe Fonseca]

¨without¨ gaming?

eeeck. teach´em how to process information
at a minimum level, only enough to stay in
their right place in society. let only rich
people learn by gaming.

like schools during industrial revolution,
teaching to read, not helping to think.

efe

On 9/4/07, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Somewhat same experience here.  I just came back from  a trip in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world.  I was an evaluation mission of AIDS orgnaisations where ICT was being mainstreamed.
>
> And yes, local realities must be taken into consideration.  There is also capapcity to use and benefit from ICT.
>
> Some women received computers without knowing how to use it.  So they learnt on it.  In some cases, this may be good.  In others, it is not wise.
>
> Nnenna
>
> Steve Cisler <sacisler at yahoo.com> wrote: The UK Information Society Research Group issued a
> group of working papers on ICT use in Jamaica, Ghana,
> South Africa, and parts of Asia.
>
> An Australian anthropology site has some interesting
> commentary on the papers, esp.the one on Jamaica where
> the authors make a number of recommendations:
>
> -Instead of more computers in secondary schools invest
> in post-educational training for young adults.
>
> -Instead of investing into expensive high-end
> computers invest in low-price computers without gaming
> facilities
>
> -Instead of investing in new educational content,
> create trustworthy portals
>
> -Instead of investing in community computers, offer
> Internet access via individual mobile phones
>
> What they found was that the realities of use at the
> local level diverged enormously from the purposes
> envisioned by the governments and international NGOs.
>
> http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/rich-ethnographic-reports-about-the-uses-of-ict-in-low-income-communities/
>
>
>
> Steve Cisler
> Center for Science, Technology, and Society
> Santa Clara University
> http://scu.edu/sts/
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