- "Innovate on existing platforms (We’ve got bicycles and mobile phones in Africa, plus lots of metal to weld. Innovate using that
stuff, rather than bringing in completely new tech."
When I read this post I thought of my work in a different chapter of my life, when I worked with a kick-ass grassroots collective that lead workshops with communities literally all around the world about how to build community radio stations by using the existing resources that community had.
On a larger scale, this is what many refer to as Appropriate Technology. Antioch College in Ohio offers degrees in Appropriate Technology. And on another note, besides the fact that a lot of "developing" countries may not have the high tech we are privileged to gluttonize our own society, there is an implicit suggestion that introducing our "better" stuff is better for a community's way of life, conjuring images of the "Noble Savages" instigated in our collective thought by men of privilege from another time.
We must think in these terms as we try to solve the issues in the world. Not checkers. This work is chess.
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