India's Internet Has A Caste System. Welcome The 'Bultoo Class' And Their 'Voicebook'

Facebook is a modern marketplace where people talk, exchange ideas and also goods. A majority of today바카라�s world are excluded from this modern facility though.

A small effort to this effect is taking place in Central India. It can also help transform journalism from an aristocratic exercise, which it is today, but can convert itself into a democratic one. Facebook is called 바카라�social media바카라� but how can a place be called social when 90 percent of the population are not on it?

Similarly, media is responsible communication. Anybody talking anything without any cross-checking should not be called media. But It can be made a responsible democratic platform if we include elected gatekeeping from the community. We should also demand that if Facebook and Google are called media then they need to be responsible platforms.

According to a recent study 1 percent of India controls around 60 percent of the economy, a reflection of the economic inequality in most developing countries. So it is quite obvious that companies like Facebook and Google are not interested in investing in ideas like Voicebook which will connect people at the Base of the Pyramid, who own a very small part of the economy.

In the world of mass communication today바카라�s Indian society can be divided in three castes.

The creamy layer of Indians who have access to internet can be labeled the 바카라�Internet caste바카라�. There are varying estimates for the size of this class. When Facebook says they have 14 crore subscribers then we can safely say that this caste is around 10% of our population. Second is the 바카라�mobile phone class바카라�, who own a phone, have access to phone signals and have some extra cash to make phone calls. This is the biggest class who could be between 60 to 80 percent of our population though the numbers are smaller in rural areas. People from this caste are often in a hurry to join the internet caste. Caste is not hereditary here.

Finally, coming third is the 바카라�Bultoo caste바카라�. Some from this community own phones but they don바카라�t have access to mobile signals at places where they live and often do not have money to make a phone call. They are at least 20-30 percent of our population and could be more in number in the villages.

This caste was earlier categorised as the 바카라�radio caste바카라�, which had no voice of its own; they could only listen. They often shared the same phone among themselves and used the instrument mainly as a tool to listen to songs and take pictures. They use Bluetooth technology available in their phones to transfer audio files among one another.

They cannot pronounce Bluetooth, so they call it 바카라�Bultoo바카라�.