Fwd: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Blogpost: Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)

[Michael Lenczner-2]

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From: Michael Gurstein <[hidden email]>
Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:25 PM
Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Blogpost: Immiserating the Poor:
We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a
Kenyan slum)
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Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone
in Egypt and a Kenyan slum)

The app culture is one of individuals and individualized approaches. Apps
enable and empower the individual as a consumer, as a communicator, as an
information handler. However, many of the major issues in a developing world
(and other) environment are not ones that lend themselves readily to
individualized responses or individual solution.

http://wp.me/pJQl5-5P

Michael Gurstein



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