Re: [atlarge-discuss] List/website/connectivity

[eric@hi-tek.com]

Yes Bruce is a strong and willing advocate of logical constraints upon
manipulation through technological superiority.  While we may disagree on
certain aspects I support him as an advocate of accessibility.
e

Bruce Young wrote:

> This wasn't a recommendation for action, just an observation.  This
> organization will probably *never* be in the position to fund such a
> project, but we can certainly discuss such issues, as Eric and I have been
> doing.  It may not be topical to our current organizing efforts, but it is
> one of the many issues we should be advocating for!
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> byoung651@attbi.com
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> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: espresso@e-scape.net [mailto:espresso@e-scape.net]
> |  Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:14 AM
> |  To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> |  Subject: RE: [atlarge-discuss] List/website/connectivity
> |
> |
> |  At 18:30 -0700 2002/10/07, Bruce Young wrote:
> |  >I think what we need in areas that are underdeveloped
> |  communications-wise >is
> |  >to look at bypassing older technologies that are pervasive in the US and
> |  >elsewhere, and deploy portable wireless devices.  802.11b
> |  chipset prices are
> |  >falling rapidly, and we can expect to see them as standard equipment in
> |  >almost every digital device.  I see something similar to
> |  Microsoft's Tablet
> |  >PC (without their price!), maybe running all open-source software, with
> |  >built-in Wi-Fi, and using one of several new organic displays
> |  that will be
> |  >very cheap to manufactur in quantity.  This would be less expensive to
> |  >deploy than traditional desktop PCs, would be easier to modify
> |  for non-roman
> |  >character sets, and would be more useful being a portable device.
> |
> |  That's all very well, Bruce, but we are in no position to supply
> |  the developing countries, or even the poor in our own, with that
> |  technology. Not even the UN or the World Bank has come anywhere
> |  near a viable plan to deploy the ICTs by 2010, let alone immediately.
> |
> |  Meanwhile, even if everyone had a Wi-Fi-capable handheld, one
> |  would have to take into account the facts that these devices
> |  have much smaller displays than current desktop systems and that
> |  not everyone has 20/20 vision.
> |
> |  I'm not knocking your suggestion that everyone on the planet
> |  *should* have these devices. But I do have to say, as Eric did,
> |  that we should be taking present realities into account in our
> |  Web site design. What sort of voice can this organization be for
> |  all Internet users if we make it impossible for  the
> |  less-affluent, the handicapped, and those for whom Internet
> |  connections are difficult and expensive to use our own Web site?
> |
> |  It seems to me that the last thing the planet needs is yet
> |  another organization to represent the interests of the
> |  technically-inclined and the affluent, which simply dismisses
> |  the needs of the rest on the grounds that some day some of them
> |  may have what we have now. Isn't that part of what we object to
> |  in ICANN's behaviour?
> |
> |  Regards,
> |
> |  Judyth
> |  (looking forward to various efforts to represent the needs
> |  of all to the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society,
> |  and rather surprised that this group doesn't seem to care)
> |
> |
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