Introducing zero, defining bottom?
Posted on | May 25, 2010 | No Comments
Facebook introduces the free service 0.facebook.com in 45 countries:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=391295167130
and many authors are discussing its impact on africa* , controversially:
http://whiteafrican.com/2010/05/21/facebook-zero-a-paradigm-shift/
http://blurringborders.com/2010/05/20/will-africans-have-a-say-on-privacy/
http://www.ictworks.org/news/2010/05/24/4-reasons-celebrate-facebook-zero-africa
Not that worried about privacy, as expressed earlier, here: http://form.less.dk/?p=211 –
but thinking that moves like this, game changing as they are,
define and stabilize bottom-of-the-pyramid
as much as they address it.
does the so-called bottom get invited here to use passively, or to build?
how will the line between the two be modified through moves like this?
sure i d love to get surprised, but …
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