UN Recommends WiFi for Poor Countries

amerinese writes "UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is now advocating that third-world countries be given funds to implement WiFi technology and 'leapfrog into the future.'"

Comments

Ummmmm.....

[rjch]

Wi-fi is all well and good, but in a third world country, who is going to have the technology to access it?

Hurry!

[arcanumas]

Fast! Find old rags from the basement , stop eating and leave the house dirty! I Want WiFi!

Oh Lordy

[Badanov]

Nearly all third world nations are ones which are drunk on Marxist philosophy. And its a pretty good scam. A tiny group of communists run the country, forbids small enterprise, seizes what enterprise there is for the state, and totally ruin any chance their nation has of becoming independant; then when people are starving they can run to the UN, claim that US dominance has destroyed their country, and get food donations.

and Kofi Annan wants civilized nations not just to give them access to computer technology, but to give it to them for free; in spite of the fact the UN is the prime enabler of this Marxism?

A better idea would be to require the recipient government to sell all stake to any enterprises to the highest bidder, hold democratic elections and create democratic institutions, chuck Marxist philosophy ( and while they are at it, chuck the UN) before they so much as see a single dusty Linux box.

By the way: The John Birch Society was right. Get US out of the UN!

http://www.getusout.org/action/index.htm

LET THE U.N. PAY FOR IT!

[flyneye]

I got a GREAT IDEA!
When the U.N. has a bright idea about helping 3rd world countries....LET THEM DIG INTO THEIR OWN POCKETS.Cause right now,its kinda like if you wanted to help the poor and dug in my wallet.
I got a BETTER IDEA...Get the U.N. out of the U.S and the U.S. out of the U.N.!
Lets face it,the U.N. is made up of countries that don't like the U.S.,dont respect the U.S. and spend their time telling us how poor they are and how we (who have,because of our labor and freedom)should give them (who won't follow our example and work or fight for freedom)money which they will spend on weapons to use against us,foolish investments or just plain crap!
Next time they have a hand out....spit in it!
(and NO I dont care about your piteous example of how wrong you think I am because you think the U.N. are a good organization because of some rewritten history you absorbed in public school)