Moving forward, there are two extre

Moving forward, there are two extremes along the continuum of different approaches to technology and development. At one end is the passive diffusion view. Taking the
lead from mobile telephony’s rapid spread, this approach
holds that if ICT does have a developmental value for the
poor, a combination of private firms’ search for profit
plus the poor’s search for value will make it happen. Any
attempt to intervene from outside is foolish and wasteful:
a force feeding of the inappropriate that will only lead to
messy regurgitation