[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Background to the film Slumdog Millionaire

[Arnoud van Wijk]

That is great!
And so you can see: give people the opportunity and chance to use Computers
and Technology and Internet. And then people will benefit from it.
That is why my work is accessibility and disability.
Instead of children, you have people with a disability.
And like the children, they will also grow and develop skills and benefit
from the use of internet.

This is similar for people with a different language, and similar for people
who are located in remote hard to reach places.

So in general we can say: Internet (and surrounding technology) +
opportunity & access = good for people.

Just my 2 cents :-)

Arnoud

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Arnoud van Wijk
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> -----Original Message-----
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> delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of WWWhatsup
> Sent: dinsdag 24 februari 2009 23:25
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> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Background to the film Slumdog
> Millionaire
> 
> Of interest I trust..
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> >>A NEWCASTLE professor watched Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire -
> >>not realising he was the inspiration behind the movie.
> >>
> >>A decade ago Professor Sugata Mitra knocked a hole through the wall
> >>of his laboratory in New Delhi, India, so children in the adjoining
> >>slum could play on one of his computers.
> >>
> >>The experiment, to see whether unschooled children would teach
> >>themselves how to use the internet if left to their own devices, was
> >>intended as an educational tool.
> >>
> >>But it eventually inspired the film which swept the Oscars on Sunday
> >>night.
> >>
> >>As he celebrated the film's success, original author Vikas Swarup
> >>said he wrote Q&A, which was adapted for the screen by Simon
> >>Beaufoy, as a direct result of hearing about street children using
> >>Professor Mitra's computer.
> >. . .
> >
> >Full story at:
> >
> >http://tinyurl.com/czcd32
> >
> >See also:
> >
> >http://markkobayashihillary.computing.co.uk/2009/02/a-niit-at-the-
> movies.html
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