coming up online
From my first blog, oslutions.com (2005 to 2008), recovered from the Internet Archive and republished as it was. Links are from that time and many no longer work. Original: http://oslutions.com/blog/2008/02/12/coming-up-online/.
it’s now been 4 months that i travel through Southeast Asia. i stayed mostly in rural areas, or small cities. so many faces, so many smiles… people always starting a conversation — sometimes in the hope of making a few ruppes, sometimes just to share a smile, or talk about our different ways of living. in very remote areas, i always wonder how long it will take for them to be online. it will probably happen much faster than it took/will take them to get electricity, phones. it’s actually already happening big time… and i think i want to be part of that. not sure how, and where, but it seems to me that the internet can be a good tool for development. to facilitate the clash of our civilizations.