[liberationtech] Bill Gates on Project Loon vs malaria

[Richard Brooks]

On 08/09/2013 12:25 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote:>
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/09/bill-gates-google-project-loon
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> Bill Gates criticises Google's Project Loon initiative
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> Former Microsoft chief says low-income countries need more than just
> internet access
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On the one hand, clean drinking water is important and
the fact that little work is done on malaria because it
effects mainly poor people is disgusting.

On the other hand, I've heard lots of people in the
countries that would benefit from a cure for
malaria this year asking about what they can do when
their government shuts down the Internet. The idea
that information can still go in or out against government
wishes is important to them.

I guess people may want to be healthy and free at the
same time.