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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