Thursday, February 17, 2005

More on Mobile Content

This article from Howard Rheingold spells out why it is so vital that libraries work hard at making content mobile. "Farmers, Phones and Markets: Mobile Technology In Rural Development." This should speak to the heart of why many of us wanted to become librarians: equality of access to information.

A quote from Howard: Worldchanging.com blogger Jamais Cascio has written about the part that rural wireless infrastructure can play in a broader economic development effort: "Rather than following the already-developed nations in the same course of 'progress,' leapfrogging means that developing regions can experiment with emerging tools, models and ideas for building their societies."

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