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May 30, 2007
Internet in the Amazon
The World Changing website reports on an initiative by the Brazilian government to bring satellite Internet to indigenous peoples in the Amazon. (I haven't seen Brazilian media coverage on this yet, but I'm going to look.) The blog entry by Sara Rich presents this prospect as advantageous for conservation work but mentions fears about cultural change inevitably following this technology. This is important to worry about, although not necessarily in the culture-loss/cultural survival way this writer suggests.
Posted by johnn at May 30, 2007 09:30 AM
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