[ Thanks to Dave Guard for this
link. ]
“While many people have been working on the technical challenges
of providing low cost computing to emerging communities, a couple
of months back I had proposed a different and related challenge to
my immediate friends and free software professionals from several
organizations. This challenge was not based on how to deliver ever
lower cost physical computing, but rather why and how such
solutions can and should be delivered through free software.
Further, in the project outline I started and others have helped
with, I choose to focus on and challenge others to consider how we
can make such technology serve communities, not just in traditional
roles, but as vehicles for distance education, for enabling
cultural participation, for entertainment, for global economic
participation, for enabling digital libraries and shared forms of
learning, for enabling communities to share and fully enjoy free
culture and free knowledge. This ideal was embodied and expressed
in my outline within the model of the Hipatia community telecenter
project…”