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Well I was going to concentrate on getting fresh water to them but I guess knowing the history of the Hapsburg dynasty is just as good.
by ianstallings 14y ago
Well I was going to concentrate on getting fresh water to them but I guess knowing the history of the Hapsburg dynasty is just as good.
- coob 14y agoYes I'm sure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_well would be of no use at all in that situation. More seriously – once basic survival needs are met, the next most important thing is education. Life expectancy, living standards, family size and income all correlate highly to education level. Want to stop HIV/AIDs? You can't do it just by handing out condoms. You need the users to understand why.
- vidarh 14y agoAnd as usual someone assumes all of the third world are without clean water and/or food... E.g. take Africa: "In its latest quarterly update for the region, the analyst says it expects mobile phone subscriber penetration levels to pass 80 percent in the first quarter of next year." (article from last year): http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/abi-africas-mobile-market-to-pass-80-subscriber-penetration-in-q1-next-year-13-9-of-global-cellular-market-by-2017/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/abi-africas-mobile-market-t... And/or that technology can't be a benefit in improving access to those even for the people who actually are without clean water or food... In many of these countries mobiles have become a tool that is massively important in improving market efficiency by disseminating prices - vital in areas where communication is slow and knowing where to take your crop can make dramatic differences in return on investment - accessing information about farming, or the weather, or indeed - as someone else pointed to - to get information about technology that can cheaply help improve their standard of living.