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----------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------- DEVELOPMENT / TECHNOLOGY New mailing lists from India We take pleasure in announcing the recent launch of two new mailing lists, dealing with development / technology issues from South Asia. If you, or anyone you know, would like to subscribe to either mailing list, just send an email to fred@vsnl.com giving a brief self-introduction, and mentioning on which list you read this note. Thanks, Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist. CR-INDIA: This list aims to campaign for the use of community radio as a means of non-profit, low-cost and pro-development communications in India and the other countries of South Asia. Radio holds out immense potential in countries like ours, but for long this medium has either been totally government-controlled, or opened to only big commercial players. Non-profit and educational organisations (including universities) could contribute significantly if they are given permissions to run their own stations. With the FM frequencies becoming available, thousands of low-powered frequencies can be opened up across the region. As we learn from the experiences in nearby Nepal (Radio Sagarmatha, etc) and Sri Lanka (Kothmale's experiment with radio- browsing, etc) this list is being used to share appropriate information about how community radio can and is being used both in South Asia and elsewhere in the globe. BYTESFORALL: Welcome to South Asia. This talent-rich, resource- poor, tragic-powerhouse of immense software skills, finds its abilities recognised across the globe. And yet millions here can't find the solutions that could make life a little less of a struggle. Likewise, software brains from the region are serving some of the biggest companies in the globe... But it also finds itself ironically unable to afford the prices of 'legal' software that it very badly needs for itself. Some of the most relevant software/Internet/computer/IT ventures in South Asia, ironically, fail to get the attention they merit. Attending to the needs of the poor doesn't make good business sense. bYtES For aLL is an attempt to swim against the tide. Through a website <http://www.bytesforall.org> and an e-mail based mailing list <bytesforall@goacom.com>, we hope to update interested readers about interesting ventures. Attempts that focus on people before profits. After being launched in July 1999, this venture which is based entirely on volunteer participation, currently has its key supporters based in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and abroad. ********************************************* The most fundamental way of helping other people is to teach people how to do things better, to tell people things that you know that will enable them to better their lives. For people who use computers, this means sharing the recipes you use on your computer, in other words the programs you run. -- Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation. ********************************************* Many of the best minds of our time are engaged in finding ways for the already wealthy to claim even more of the world's real wealth for themselves. -- David C Korten yes@futurenet.org ********************************************* [India, China] and other developing nations have the chance to rethink the meaning of being rural. If just a few political leaders were to reexamine their telecommunications agenda for the rural populace, poverty could be redefined in the digital age. -- Nicholas Nigroponti, Director, MIT Media Lab. ********************************************* The root of wealth or poverty lies in the ends we have in mind, not in the means to those ends. If the hand is ready then finding the instrument of action should not be difficult. --Rabindranath Tagore (a legendary poet in Bengali literature and a Noble laureate of 1913) ********************************************* -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | Freelance Journalist | fred@vsnl.com _/ 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India | Ph 832.409490 or 832.409783 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold