Digital Aid

Back then, it was Live Aid made possible via satellite uplink. Now, it’s You Tube to bring much-needed aid to Haiti.

http://www.youtube.com/wearetheworld#p/a/u/0/Glny4jSciVI

Cool! That’s what technology and wisdom of crowd are for: rushing in to lift the death and dying out of the rubble.

After all, aren’t we the world? Yes, we are the world.

I hope you have Xtreme DSL connection speed.

Each “donation per click” will definitely save some lives down there, now that compassion fatigue is setting in.

Unfortunately, it seems as though charity flow from  information rich to information poor zones.

It’s true that nations are competitive because their information infrastructure are strong (S Korea, Singapore,  Japan, N European zones).

India and Ireland have been show cases of how visionary their governments were in investing in “knowledge-based infra structure”,  away from smokestack imprisonment.

Creative genius and technology lovers at first find digital platform alien (old film school folks still have uneasiness with digital video gears). But given the scope and breath, more flattened, they became late adopters in the game. After all, we are the world. Like my friend said, no choice. What they serve on the plate is what you have to take. Poison pills or smart mobs? We will always adjust as we go.

I never forget a fictional? story of a man on tight rope walking (illegally) between the Twin Towers (before 9/11 of course).

We are the world and we are that man, who is on the move between two pillars (analog vs digital worlds) on a balancing act.  Or to amuse ourselves, think of Jackie Chan in Rush Hour, who has to fight the bad guys, while trying to keep his towel from falling . You only have two hands at any one time. That’s why we need each other for the bigger gig. We are the World. And it’s getting easier to give now than ever  before. Just click “DONATE NOW”. The first click is the hardest, to paraphrase Sheryl Crow’s First Cut is the Deepest. But then, like the old woman who can pick up the huge pig: she has carried it since birth, one kilogram at a time.