Hace un par de meses publiqué un link a un artículo del NYT que se titulaba ‘Can cellphone help end global poverty?’ y se describía el trabajo de un antropólogo que trabaja para Nokia que viaja por el mundo para llevar información que utiliza Nokia en la definición y diseño de sus productos. Esta es una presentación hecha por Jan Chipchase y Fumiko Ichikawa. :) Interesante.. estoy buscando otra presentación del mismo antropólogo que vi hace unas semanas sobre TV móvil en el celular.. cuando la encuentre publico aquí..

Encontré la presentación que estaba buscando. Aqui Jan Chipchase hace un análisis del uso de la TV móvil en diferentes ocasiones. Es muy interesante ver este análisis hecho desde el enfoque de un antropólogo. (fuente: Blog de Jan Chipchase)

Muy intersante artículo.. me gustó.. se trata de un reportero que entrevista a un antropólogo, experto de Nokia, que viaja por el mundo para entender las necesidades de la gente respecto a comunicación y a teléfonos celulares, principalmente por Africa y Asia. Yo creo firmemente que sí -talvez no de la manera en que se utiliza hoy, ni con sus precios, pero talvez con pequeñas modificaciones o impulsos por medio de ONGs o Gobiernos pueda realmente hacer mucha diferencia en países muy pobres y con escasa infraestructura-. Dejo algunos trechos del artículo:

“A “just in time” moment afforded by a cellphone looks a lot different to a mother in Uganda who needs to carry a child with malaria three hours to visit the nearest doctor but who would like to know first whether that doctor is even in town. It looks different, too, to the rural Ugandan doctor who, faced with an emergency, is able to request information via text message from a hospital in Kampala … a 2005 London Business School study extrapolated the effect even further, concluding that for every additional 10 mobile phones per 100 people, a country’s G.D.P. rises 0.5 percent … ugandans are using prepaid airtime as a way of transferring money from place to place, something that’s especially important to those who do not use banks … “Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naïve, at worst dangerous … and IMHO the people that do it are just boring,” he writes on his blog’s description page”

“A major theme of this present century will be the pursuit of our collective identity. We are on a search for who we are. What does it mean to be a human? Can there be more than one kind of human? In fact, what exactly is a human? On average science unveils a new invention every day, and almost without fail these days, that daily invention disrupts the notion of ourselves. Every day we are getting news that challenges our identity. Stem cell therapy, genetic sequencing, artificial intelligence, operational robots, new animal clones, trans-species hybrids, brain implants, memory enhancing drugs, limb prosthetics, social networks — each of these tools blurs the boundaries between us as individuals and among us as a species. Who are we and who do we want to be?” (desde BoingBoing)

- Who (the hell) are we? .. or .. Where are we going..? Are we humans? post-humans? .. .. that’s why i want to study Social Anthrophology, and then research about post-humanity.. post-human rights, post-human challenges, post-human future, and maybe, technological singularity.. to find the answer.. or to make the right questions..