Give man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, teach him how to fish andhe will overfish

Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 22-25

  Impiö, Jussi ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COMMUNITY IS; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; LOCAL LANGUAGE; LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES; POPULATION GROWTH; ROOT CAUSE; SIDE EFFECT;

RADIO STATIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 77952642535     PISSN: 10725520     EISSN: 15583449     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1744161.1744167     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Wikipedia notes the water hyacinth was introduced to Lake Victoria through the Kagera River from Rwanda. I stick to version I heard from the Lake Victoria fishermen.
2. I knowingly use "Africa" here when referring to 53 countries, more than 2000 languages and cultures in sub-Saharan Africa.
3. "Industrial world" is an unsatisfactory definition to describe the wealthy part of the world-including Europe, the U.S., Japan, and other parts of Asia where, despite the poverty, the-well-to-do middle class is significant in size. Other definitions used are the West, the North, G20, etc.
4. Mufwene, S.S. "Language endangerment: What pride and prestige got to do with it." http://humanities. uchicago.edu/faculty/ mufwene/langenda. pdf/.
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6. Mufwene, S.S. "Language birth and death." Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004): 201-222.
7. Access to media follows the same lines: There is one copy of newspaper for every 17,000 people in Kenya.
8. Social media was used to inform the public of wrongdoings and also to agitate people to attack their neighbors.
9. Mäkinen, M. and Kuira, M. "Social Media in Post-Election Crises in Kenya" The International Journal of Press/Politics 13 (2008): 328-335.
10. A more fundamental root cause is "why there is low access?" It exposes the source of the most pressing problems, which can be narrowed down to some high-level issues: colonial heritage, corrupted leadership, external interference, unfair trade regulations, and uncontrolled population growth
11. "State of the World's Cities." UNHabitat Report (2006): 88-89
12. Njanji, S. "SMS 'Helped Stoke Nigeria Violence.'" The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 Jan. 2010, http://news.smh. com.au/breaking-newsworld/ sms-helpedstoke- nigeria-violence- 20100127-mwn1.html/
13. Nokia is investing in developing the African R&D ecosystem in conjunction with the EPROM project at MIT and the Nokia University donations program and start-ups-Forum Nokia and the Sustainable Business in the Knowledge Economy program with InfoDev.
14. The Nokia Research Center Africa in Nairobi employs 20 Kenyan researchers, and operates all over sub-Saharan Africa.
15. Bolton,G. Aid and Other Dirty Business: How good intentions have failed the world's poor. London: Ebury, 2008.
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17. Leys, C.The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
18. F. Cooper and R. Packard, "The History of Development Knowledge." In The Anthropology of Development and Globalization.
19. Unlike much of the planet, in Africa humans have contributed very little to the extinction of animals and plants. Over millions of years the evolution of mankind was in Africa, together with all other species; the ecological niche for man was formed very slowly. You could argue that Africa is the only continent where we have a natural ecological niche; in other areas we are an invasive species.
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