| i'm starting to wonder who runs google... could it be intelligent people? people looking for a quick buck? moronic environmentalist hippies? the 'do no evil' people?
africa doesn't need internet, what it needs is humanitarian aid and support to build an infrastructure (road, electricity, clean water deliver, hospitals, schools (gotta be literate to use the internet ya know?), and everything else that the developed world has), to build an agricultral system that ensure nearly all have a nutrious diet, a healthcare system to combat disease, perhaps ways to ensure the government isn't corrupt, and so on. i don't buy this crap that by giving a village the internet is better than giving them a truck full of food (or even better, the means to grow/catch food and be self sufficient), for most villages. i'm sure there are towns and cities that are at a point that the internet could be used. also, since when was the internet a necessity of life? i thought it was food, water, and shelter, not internet, food, water, and shelter. i don't buy into this lie of 'if they build technology related things (cell phone towers, internet acces) everything will magically be better (roads, agriculture, etc.). google's money would be better spent on giving to organizations that help africa for the basics than to do this worthless project, but i guess they won't see any chance of a profit. sure the internet can explain how to farm in better techniques, but it sure doesn't beat having a group of live human beings mentoring you. there is something lost when it comes to the internet, it is that human contact. it is the difference between, 'hey, someone actually cares about us' to 'what is this thing? a shovel?'. i'll have no pity for google if this fails.
i suppose one good thing is that they are sticking to what they know best... THE INTARNETZ. |
