Telecom
Innovation and ARK à Act of Random Kindness:
Directed by Tom
Shadyac, the movie Even Almighty have a completely new innovative look at the
old concept of old age Noah’s Ark. Is Tom Shadyac’s outlook even relevant to us
in the Telecom Business...? Do our Telecom Innovations also symbolize ARK à Act of Random
Kindness? Interested? Read On…
Last lazy Sunday I was watching the movie Evan
Almighty… It’s not a new movie, been released in 2007, but it had all sort of
animals so my son wanted to watch it.
I started watching it with no specific interest and then the
fun started.
God (Morgan Freeman) contacts Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood. It’s an amazing movie made by two of my very favorite actors…. It’s a simple movie, where God asks (rather Forces) Evan to make the Ark which in turn saves the neighborhood. My son enjoyed it due to all the animals and I enjoyed it for the message.
What struck me is the end when God (Morgan Freeman), describes the meaning of the Ark used to save,
A à Act of
R à Random
K à Kindness
What a beautiful message in a
comic movie with no major impact. I’m sure the movie passed without any awards
or even recognition, But the message must not be let to pass. Why not have an
ARK – Act of Random Kindness every-day.
And the ARK need not be major; it could be as simple as:
·
A smile to someone who works with you regularly· A compliment to someone
· A good work completed diligently
· Providing way for someone who is getting late
· Helping someone stuck in work
· Helping Out at Blossom
So how does it
relate to what we do in telecom?
The Innovations we
do can have long lasting impacts like· Banking the underprivileged
· Connecting remote parts of the earth to loved ones
· Learning over internet for inaccessible areas
· Agriculture alerts to poor farmers in developing countries
· Mobile Finance and Payments for inaccessible populations
The list goes on and I’m sure out small telecom Acts of Kindness à ARKs will go a long way in making this world a better place to be in J
~~Sanjay Ishwarlal Upadhyay
