[governance] FW: FW: Blogpost: Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)

[Michael Gurstein]

Since we seem to be drifting a bit in our discussion and discussing
"societal usage" this below might be of interest...

Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone
in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)

The fundamental problem with all of this comes in the failure to distinguish
between the residents of Kibera as consumers using their 
cell phones and this "shiny app" to pursue their individual consumer dreams,
and the residents of Kibera as citizens who could and should be 
insisting on the availability of water as a right of residence or
alternatively developing some community based collaborative approach to 
responding to the water crisis.

http://wp.me/pJQl5-5P 

Michael Gurstein


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