From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 21:04:47 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> All right. So you have in mind some ideas that the (rather
> young) American children might have that would help the
> villagers? It still seems doubtful to me. Perhaps you
> mean insofar as computer tech or cell phones that the kids
> here know all about? Of course, I doubt if you have any
> ideas yourself, Michael, because after all, you are not in
> contact with a *particular* village. But what kind of thing
> can you imagine that might be of help to the village after
> some inventive people *here* --- be they children or not ---
> could really do?
I don't have any real specific examples. I was thinking that the kids
could discover possible networks that the villagers might normally
offhandily reject due to sociopolitical structures within the village or
surrounding areas. Some of the villagers might have ideas about how
things could be better managed but perhaps not in a position to question
the current management structure. Having their ideas presented from
outsiders w/o any kind of power-seeking agenda in the village might help
the ideas get a better reception.
The kids might run models of local transportation resources and maybe
discover ways to 'choreograph' activities.
I consider it possible that several thousand networked schoolkids, with
hours each day to develop ideas, might think of something that you or I
have not thought up in the couple days since this conversation started.
Thanks for the story about your friend's experiences in Honduras. I'll
check out http://www.amigoslink.org/.
-Mike
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