Connectivity for the illiterate

*This sounds like yet another of those hopeless "appropriate technology" schemes, where technicians try to invent stuff for impossibly remote poor people, without realizing that those people are poor for reasons other than their lack of cool gizmos.

*On the other hand, it might well work. Look at the muscle behind this effort. German, Japan, India, IBM, design schools…

*Cellphones for the illiterate has some disturbing implications. It would mean that cellphone connectivity is more valued...