A new Gate Way?

Tue Nov 14 10:11:26 PST 2000

Judi,

How interesting ... thanks for sharing this.

Bev McCarthy

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From: Judi Richardson <Richarjl at AKERLEY.NSCC.NS.CA>
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Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: A new Gate Way?

>Gates loses faith in computers
>They can't cure world's ills, admits Microsoft boss
>
>by Edward Helmore in New York and Robin McKie in London Observer
>
>Sunday November 5, 2000
>
>Microsoft boss Bill Gates has renounced the machine that has made him the
>world's richest man. In a startling proclamation, Gates has announced that
>computers can do little to solve the planet's gravest social ills.
>
>'The world's poorest two billion people desperately need healthcare, not
>laptops,' he said.
>
>The declaration represents a major personal transformation for Gates, and
has
>sent shockwaves through America's high-tech business community. Had the
Pope
>renounced Catholicism, the surprise would not have been greater.
>
>Speaking in Seattle at a conference on using computers to help the Third
>World, Gates said he still had faith in the ideal that technology could
bring
>about a better world, but added that he doubted that computers - or global
>capitalism - could solve the most immediate catastrophes facing the world's
>poorest people.
>
>People who thought that developing countries could benefit from the
e-economy
>had no idea what it meant to live on $1 a day with no electricity, said
>Gates. 'You're just buying food; you're trying to stay alive.'
>
>The billionaire technologist became positively vitriolic about the idea of
>using computers in the Third World: 'Mothers are going to walk right up to
>that computer and say, "My children are dying, what can you do?" They're
not
>going to sit there and, like, browse eBay or something.
>
>'What they want is for their children to live. Do you really have to put in
>computers to figure that out?'
>
>For a man who has benefited more than anyone from the IT revolution, this
>reappraisal is extraordinary and comes after several months of growing
>disillusionment in Gates about the state of the planet, and the potential
for
>technology to help it out of its current crisis.
>
>He confessed he had been 'naive - very naive' when he began giving away his
>fortune six years ago. At that time, he said, he expected that computers
and
>information technology would make up the bulk of his philanthropic
donations.
>'Computers are amazing in what they can do, but they have to be put into
the
>perspective of human values,' he said.
>
>Having visited Africa and other Third World countries his priorities had
now
>shifted, he said. At least two-thirds of the grants offered by the $21
>billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would now be devoted to Third
World
>healthcare and the development and distribution of vaccines.
>
>In the past year the Gates Foundation has given more than $200 million to
>health-related causes, including $25m for the International Aids Vaccine
>Initiative, $50m to prevent maternal and child mortality, $20m for
>international family planning efforts and $100m towards children's
vaccines.
>'As a father of two children, thinking about the medicines that I take for
>granted which are not available elsewhere, that sort of rises to the top of
>the list.'
>
>These remarks have angered many of Gates's wealthy, hi-tech philanthropist
>counterparts. They say he has unfairly placed computers at odds with
>providing food and healthcare in developing countries. Others argue that
>Gates is wrong to think that technology cannot help improve even the
poorest
>people's lives.
>
>'After listening to three days of serious analysis and work, and then to
have
>Gates rather flippantly say, "You've got to have clean water and food" -
that
>wasn't exactly furthering the point of the entire meeting,' said Sun
>Microsystems chief research officer John Gage, who heads Netday, a charity
>committed to wiring the world's classrooms to the internet.
>
>Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000
>
>
>
>€ Judith Richardson
>B.A., B.Ed., C.N.E.
>M.A. Candidate
>Paralegal Studies
>Akerley Campus
>Nova Scotia Community College
>21 Woodlawn Road
>Dartmouth, N.S.
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>From  Tue Nov 14 19:47:37 2000
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:47:37 +0100
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bienvenu pour toi et pour la langue francais entre nous !!
pensez a la fond de voyage que a installeé: let´s wey to vancouver.
florian fischer

john engle schrieb:

> Je tenterai de
> trouver le temps et les moyens financiers, car mon association n'est pas
> encore ouverte sur cette question pour me payer la participation. Pour
> l'instant c'est une passion personnelle que je partage avec d'autres acteurs
> militants.
>
> Cher ami, à bientôt.
> Cheikh Sow
>

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