Comments on: Seduced by ICT http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/07/02/seduced-by-ict/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » OLPC — Rest in Peace — Part 3 http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/07/02/seduced-by-ict/comment-page-1/#comment-18914 Atanu Dey on India’s Development » OLPC — Rest in Peace — Part 3 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:19:43 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/07/02/155#comment-18914 [...] can afford. (see Why Telephones, Radios, and TVs Don’t Make the Conference Circuits, Seduced by ICT, and Milking the Digital Divide.) Well, never mind the tin-foil hat. Even non- [...] [...] can afford. (see Why Telephones, Radios, and TVs Don’t Make the Conference Circuits, Seduced by ICT, and Milking the Digital Divide.) Well, never mind the tin-foil hat. Even non- [...]

]]> By: Akila http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/07/02/seduced-by-ict/comment-page-1/#comment-15903 Akila Thu, 25 May 2006 19:08:06 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/07/02/155#comment-15903 Naturally people get carried away by new technology thinking that is going to bring wonders. The internet and computers are no way exceptions. Nowadays many people feel if they loose their mobile they may loose their contacts from the whole world and once for all they are lost including me . I am not talking about the business magnets but very ordinary India citizen nowadays .I really feel proud of my country’s development. An example to quote the passenger, a villager sitting next to me, in the bus had her mobile ringing. She wanted to show that she has a mobile by allowing it to ring for a longer time or is she new to her mobile ring tone? then later…… after everyone turned back at her… after drawing everyone’s attention she picked up her handset at last and started ……..Blaa Blaa Blaa and her conversation went on and on and on. I had my own doubts whether her mobile connection is prepaid or post paid? Can she afford the cost? Who will pay her bill? From her conversation I could infer her husband is a farmer and she is speaking everything under the sun to her mother ……May be for more than an hour…. People watch the TV listen to the radio and now they talk A real communication era we are all living in ……..But what are these communications for? I do not blame everyone but many do such communications for their own reasons. I heard my cell ringing “Hai Shall I wait in the bus stop to pick you up” I said “yes” to my husband and ended the call. I immediately checked my balance it said Re 1.00 for the call which I answered yes and the remaining balance is RS.85.50…… So we should not under estimate the latest communication tool as well. As Edward De Bano rightly says in his writings every one has their own logic bubbles. The worries I had about her economic feasibility is hypothetical and a waste of exercise .It is like an economist worrying for the whole country were we have lots of population to such logic bubble categories ….. Certain technologies cannot be curtailed by anybody entering the system. They are mandatory no one can prevent .Aftermath of the introduction of the new ICT tool The System has to have a different sector of people to worry for that to streamline that. To plan, to execute….and to put all their life to maintain some balance But one thing for sure these ICT will give a wider contacts, better to and fro information flow what we call an information exchange sometimes even to the international levels at a very high speed @ the speed of thought by a click of a mouse …. Good and bad are the part and parcel of any system (two sides of the coin) many times it may not be good, but for some people it may be very good…..It is all about how the end users are going to use the technology but the rural India in once again getting another fair chance ……Hope it is for good Akilakalai Naturally people get carried away by new technology thinking that is going to bring wonders. The internet and computers are no way exceptions.
Nowadays many people feel if they loose their mobile they may loose their contacts from the whole world and once for all they are lost including me . I am not talking about the business magnets but very ordinary India citizen nowadays .I really feel proud of my country’s development.
An example to quote the passenger, a villager sitting next to me, in the bus had her mobile ringing. She wanted to show that she has a mobile by allowing it to ring for a longer time or is she new to her mobile ring tone? then later…… after everyone turned back at her… after drawing everyone’s attention she picked up her handset at last and started ……..Blaa Blaa Blaa and her conversation went on and on and on.
I had my own doubts whether her mobile connection is prepaid or post paid? Can she afford the cost? Who will pay her bill? From her conversation I could infer her husband is a farmer and she is speaking everything under the sun to her mother ……May be for more than an hour….

People watch the TV listen to the radio and now they talk A real communication era we are all living in ……..But what are these communications for? I do not blame everyone but many do such communications for their own reasons. I heard my cell ringing “Hai Shall I wait in the bus stop to pick you up” I said “yes” to my husband and ended the call. I immediately checked my balance it said Re 1.00 for the call which I answered yes and the remaining balance is RS.85.50……

So we should not under estimate the latest communication tool as well. As Edward De Bano rightly says in his writings every one has their own logic bubbles. The worries I had about her economic feasibility is hypothetical and a waste of exercise .It is like an economist worrying for the whole country were we have lots of population to such logic bubble categories …..

Certain technologies cannot be curtailed by anybody entering the system. They are mandatory no one can prevent .Aftermath of the introduction of the new ICT tool
The System has to have a different sector of people to worry for that to streamline that. To plan, to execute….and to put all their life to maintain some balance
But one thing for sure these ICT will give a wider contacts, better to and fro information flow what we call an information exchange sometimes even to the international levels at a very high speed @ the speed of thought by a click of a mouse ….
Good and bad are the part and parcel of any system (two sides of the coin) many times it may not be good, but for some people it may be very good…..It is all about how the end users are going to use the technology but the rural India in once again getting another fair chance ……Hope it is for good

Akilakalai

]]> By: SV http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/07/02/seduced-by-ict/comment-page-1/#comment-282 SV Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/07/02/155#comment-282 I agree that Information and communications tools are not limited to computers and yes there are many other tools such as radio (both FM and shortwave), ham radio, and TV which may be more cost effective and relevant in a given context. But in India the radio and TV medium has done more damage than good. It has eroded the ethos of the masses. We need a more aware and willing media and in that I would include the publishing industry too. I agree that Information and communications tools are not limited to computers and yes there are many other tools such as radio (both FM and shortwave), ham radio, and TV which may be more cost effective and relevant in a given context.

But in India the radio and TV medium has done more damage than good. It has eroded the ethos of the masses. We need a more aware and willing media and in that I would include the publishing industry too.

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