Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951110125807.27062B-100000@ccshst01.cs.uoguelph.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:01:26 -0500 From: Adrian C Phillips <mailto:acphilli@UOGUELPH.CA> Subject: Re: Wind Up Radio...ideal for 3rd World? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
I apologize if my reply is overly critical and indeed I acknowledge the role technology "can" play in the developing world, however, in more cases than I would like to go into now this technology is often misused. For me, the technology is only the tool and without a larger program as to how the tool is to be used, it is as useless as "nipples on a bull". Bear in mind that the radio technology has been around for a while and thus the issue is not one of a new method of communications.______________________________________________________________________________ Adrian Phillips School of Rural Planning and Development University of Guelph Canada mailto:acphilli@uoguelph.ca ______________________________________________________________________________
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Maarten van der Heijden wrote:
> Adrian C Phillips wrote
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> >--
> >Now that technology is providing us with the universal access to the
> >airwaves, the primary issue becomes one of programming. What is the
> >sense of allowing rural and impoverished people access to to airwaves if
> >the predominant programming addresses urban and capitalist issues.
> >
> >What next, the wind-up tv to allow the Masai to look at American soap operas?
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> This shows too much disdain for the impoverished. Thay may not be rich, but
> they surely are not stupid. The ANC of South africa had its own radio in
> times when Nelson Mandelea was still in prison. Maybe this is the reason why
> the radio is being built in South Africa, from the design af an Englishman
> who shopped aroud for two years with his product.
>
> Any radiostation will transmit a form of propaganda, as did the government
> radio company in South Africa and the ANC radio station. The possibility to
> choose is the core of independence.
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> Maarten van der Heijden
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