Foreword: Water Jugs and Ring Tones…
Jason Bellone
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
It was only a few months ago when I greeted some children on a dirt road in the capital city of the Congo, Brazzaville. Using my super-cool-camera-enabled-mega-pixel cell phone they invited me to take a group self-portrait. We laughed at my digital masterpiece (see Figure F-1) and after a few smiles they were back on their way to carry their water jugs home for the family. The experience for them was amusing but insignificant; another neat gadget with an entertaining purpose. Water jugs are more important than ring tones.
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Figure F-1
The author's “digital masterpiece” ...

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