[governance] the sad broadband workshop...

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Carlos,

  In the first regional LA&C preparatory meeting for the IGF, in 2008, a representative of a major telco said we should not worry about bringing the next billion to the Internet -- they have cell phones, so they are connected already, problem solved. I wonder if this executive would take the place of a carpenter looking for a job, who has to compose and send by email his CV together with images of letters of recommendation to his would-be employer, and had nothing but a cell phone (smart or not) to do it. Not to speak of comparing the executive's thin-fingered hands of a pianist with the big callous hands of the carpenter.
   


That's because traditional Telcos only believe in the traditional supply-purchase scenario, that is, server -> client.
They don't believe in user generated content because that's not lucrative enough.

Warm regards,

Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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