[Reader-list] Kevin Murray reports from Syanda, South Africa

[geert lovink]

From: "Kevin Murray" <kdmurray at bigpond.com>
To: "geert lovink" <geert at xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: high


>  Something you might appreciate, I was in a squatter camp yesterday
> called Syanda, where they make the most elaborate and beautifully crafted
> baskets out of telephone wire. I met the Zulu chief who oversees this
> (nominally, at least). Apparently, it is the traditional responsibility of
> the chief to convey messages between his people. While this was feasibly
in
> a rural situation, in the camps his people are now dispersed over
different
> Durban townships. Many of them rely on cell phones to communicate, but he
> must still convey important messages personally. You might appreciate how
> appropriate it is that he teach his people to weave out of the
technological
> lines of communication, rather than bypass him.
>
>
> Kevin
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