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From: KWB107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (<KWB107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:20:00 GMT
Newsgroups: mlist.icdecc-m
 
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Date:    Mon, 26 Oct 92 19:19 CST
From:    DC3583@UOKMVSA.BITNET
Subject: practicality of cmc in developing countries
 
Isn't governmental turmoil the main barrier
to developing communication technology in
developing countries?  Isn't this especially
true if that government is repressive and
seeks to control the usual main source of
communication in these countries which is
broadcast television or radio?  If they
seek to control the medium, wouldn't they
stifle CMC also?  Charles R. Norris in his
book THE COMING GLOBAL BOOM states that
analysts question the role that computer
networks can ever play in the Soviet Union
given their paranoid addiction to secrecy
and cited their continuing rigid control of
copy  machines.  A friend of ours who served
in the Peace Corp in Africa stated that he
feels the countries of Senegal, the Ivory
Coast, Kenya, and especially Nigeria would
be the countries most likely to embrace
CMC because of their past committment to
education.
Dona Coulter and Dian Taylor, Univ. of OK.



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