[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Samuel Rose]

Vinay

This is awesome. Exactly what I was talking about. Sad thing is that many
people right here in US need this too.



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> *The Primers*
>
> *What?*
> A set of hypertexts available in every major language explaining the
> history, geography and political structure of the world to the global poor
> as they come online through ultra- cheap ICT. Other critical areas include
> medical and health care, agricultural and other knowledge bases that are
> highly relevant to the lives of peasants, slum dwellers and other
> impoverished people. Basic educational texts are very important. These texts
> should be standardized wherever possible (with exceptions for, say, sex
> education materials in Muslim or Catholic nations) to aid keeping the
> translations straight. There may be room for open source approaches with
> autocratic editorial quality control.
>
> These texts should also include a "media primer" helping people interpret
> texts they find online to prevent propaganda being as effective as it might
> be otherwise be. Writing a document that explains the types of human
> knowledge to a culture without any written history and global access to the
> Internet is a challenge unlike any other.
>
>
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