Articles Archive for 14 March 2005
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“Forgive him Theodotus: he is a barbarian and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature”
–Caesar and Cleopatra, George Bernard Shaw
In a sense, we are all barbarians believing that our personal experiences are universally applicable. This tendency is all too evident in those who intervene, often with the most noble of motives, in economic development. It appears to me that this unfortunate barbarism approaches its extreme in the context of information and communications technologies (ICT) and development of poor rural economies. The thinking …
