My CAN-I Thought Process!: If Gandhi had Internet Access...

February 02, 2005

If Gandhi had Internet Access...

DigitalDivideNetwork reports on a post by Taran Ramprasad about an Italian telephone company advertisement where Gandhi is depicted.

Taran Rampersad posted a note to the digitaldivide list yesterday with a link to an award-winning commercial from Italy. It features Mahatma Gandhi giving a speech from a village hut in India. The twist is that the commercial envisions a world in which modern ICTs like the Internet and webcasting exist in the 1940s, and that the digital divide has been bridged. See it for yourself. It's incredibly moving -- and it makes me wonder if the next Mahatma is somewhere in a small village somewhere in India or Cambodia or Mozambique, waiting for access to the ICT tools that many of us take for granted, so the world may hear her voice.... -ac

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