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Third World Research, Development & Innovation

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-forward dept.

tovarish writes "It is nice to see that countries like India are trying to research communication techniques in backward and rural areas. While tech savvy people like us enjoy the latest gadgets it is quite a challenge to develop gadgets which actually help the poor and illiterate. While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too."

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  1. Flame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Her sensible acheivements should be covered too? Can we mark the article blurb as flamebait? Lets keep the bias out of the story. Please.

    1. Re:Flame by Draoi · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Considering how many satellites are launched in the US and just how much of *that* goes to "actually help the poor and illiterate", given how many poor and illiterate people there are in the US. Using terms like 'backward' and 'third-world' are just a little offensive, no?

      Glasshouses and stones and all that ....

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  2. Query: by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Insightful
    While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too.
    Query: What's so darned not-sensible about a satellite launch?
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    1. Re:Query: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too.

      Outsourcing too .. what's not sensible about creating employment and encouraging education ones country ?

      Can you imagine a country refusing outsourcing? How stupid would *that* be?

      "No thanks, we want our economy to be shit and our people to starve so we dont want money and jobs."

      What would our own congress do?

  3. Must be hard... by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... to be a nuclear power, a spatial power, to be the biggest democracy in the world and still be considered a 'third world country'...

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    1. Re:Must be hard... by Reducer2001 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      What about the US? How about we stop building weapons and educate our children? I mean, come on! Who are we going to use our nucular tipped bunker buster bombs against? A couple of tired 'terrorists' hunkering in a cave on the Pakistan border? Seems like using a shotgun to kill flies to me.

      I think a few well trained special ops teams could do the work of many of our over-powered weapons.

      You know, or not.

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  4. Wrong Topic ??? by allden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldn't the topic be "India's, Development & Innovation" instead of "Third World Research, Development & Innovation" ???