“When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers and villagers in India. In the process of doing that, I realized that my reference point was internal to the laboratory, rather than in the communities that I was wanting to serve. I realized that I could no longer assume what a good technology looks like from inside the laboratory; instead, I had to be in the world with people. Not just designing for them but with them.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingSchoolCommunityTechnologyDesignAssumingI RealizedFarmersSoftwareGraduatesLaboratoryGraduate School Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“The point I'm trying to make is if these networks of communication technologies are owned, monetized, surveilled, and classified by those with power - very few people, mainly white men in Silicon Valley - then it is a global village build upon the ideas, visions, words, and protocols of the few. So it's not global - it's like Epcot center. It's like Disneyland: a small worldview of the larger world.” PeopleMenWorldTryingVisionTechnologyCommunicationWorldviewDisneylandSmall World Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
