I was reading an article about lo "spoken web" (internet a voce) in fase di sperimentazione nei villaggi indiani. Una piccolissima percentuale di indiani ha accesso all'internet, e le persone che hanno accesso al broadband (banda larga) sono ancora meno. Spoken web è l'innovazione per superare questo ostacolo.
Dall'altra parte circa 600 milioni di indiani hanno accesso ai telefoni cellulari, ciò è, più di tutta la popolazione che vive in Europa occidentale e il loro numero è in continua espansione. Partendo da questa realtà, IBM India ha pensato a "internet a voce" tramite i cellulari. L'idea di base è quella di web2, ciò è, internet dove i contenuti sono creati dagli utenti, come Youtube e Facebook, ma instead of accessing the Internet through computers, people can also call and their voices come either as voice messages that like normal posts of the Internet. So people can access these messages through the Internet but also through the normal cell and instead of reading and watching the Internet may listen to the internet.
The experiment began in some villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh in 2008 and now is in the second phase of the experiment, in some villages of the state of Gujarat. The village people have responded to this opportunity with great enthusiasm.
beginning this may seem a solution, "inferior" to meet the needs of people who can not afford more. Instead I think that these solutions open up new possibilities that may develop into something different, something that goes beyond what exists today.
Some time ago I read another article about a new phase of globalization and development. While the first phase of globalization reasoned strategy of "think globally and act locally", this article said that in future we must change the strategy. The great technological revolution of recent decades were leaving the West and then expanding around the world, but very limited in less developed countries because they were not suitable for those contexts where resources are lacking. The next technological revolution will be born in poor settings and crowded Asia and Africa and will expand throughout the world, said this article.
The expansion of growth in countries such as India and China, based on the Western model of growth, is seen as the beginning of the catastrophe that will lead to the end of the world. The optimists say that countries like India and China will make new models of development to find more sustainable alternatives.
What do you think? Are you ready to bet?
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