[wsfii-discuss] Economic Sustainability ofCommunityWireless(sorry had to resend due to incorrect hyperlink)

Fri Apr 6 13:53:43 UTC 2007

Vickram,

>Just a slip of the keyboard - but both of you are
>confusing between Ashish from India and Asham from
>Canada.

I did not have a chance to look into the specifics of that email I was
just responding quickly to Ramon was saying and what was in the email.
Sorry for the misunderstanding

>> We need that caution, I just don't want to jump into bed with the
>> corporations until I really know about who I am jumping into bed
with.

>Who? We all suffer from the failure to recognise that an artificial
entity >created within its own ecosphere is hardly likely to share the
same sense >of satisfaction of success in the real world. 

I see that as the common pattern of human behavior between going to the
extremes of caution and over-reaction on the one hand and overly
compliant behavior on the other.

>> For me the issue is about changing our mindsets about money and about
how >>we communicate and network. The resources are there. 

>I can hardly believe you mean that. Just a week or so back, Daniel
pointed >out the shortage in meeting travel expenses for Prepcon
Winneba. I don't >think that has been sorted out yet, never mind
resources to meet the >challenges posed by the corporate world in
commandeering the possibilities >of community interconnectivity. 

I do mean it. Why is that so hard to believe? I guess we could say that
instead of magically expect that the pennies (or more realistically the
dollars) will start coming down from the heavens :-), we could work
harder. However I think there is more to it than that. I could be wrong
but I am expressing my view and I see this as a commonly accepted but
little understood reality that relates to terms and realities that of
empowerment and that of disempowerment. 

I am implying this in on a general level. However I do see many signs
that the mindset issue is a struggle for many people I know including
myself and it relates to the what we call the scarcity/poverty mindset.
When you have very little money to operate on, it is difficult to escape
that mindset and so it becomes self-perpetuating.

Jeff