Microsoft is working to assist. We would love to work with an NGO to make this happen
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andy Carvin Sent: Mon 9/5/2005 6:14 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Making the Astrodome CTC the Rule, Not the Exception Hi Claude, That's an interesting idea; honestly, I wasn't thinking of containers. Evacuee centers like the Astrodome and Otis are being set up for the long haul - six months or more. The Red Cross plan for Otis is taking into account the need to set up schools and other institutions on-site. They may have the physical space to set up a CTC; frankly, they probably have the bandwidth, since it is a military installation. What I don't know is if the military will let the evacuees utilize this bandwidth. If they do, they will still probably need some, if not many, hardware donations, not to mention volunteers to launch it and keep it running - until perhaps evacuees can be trained to manage the center themselves. Just some initial thoughts.... ac Claude Almansi wrote: > Andy, > > Do you remember Tracey Naughton's "Drums of Colours", the African > Media Village in the ICT4D hall at WSIS in Geneva? They had 2 big > containers: one as a radio studio for their live broadcast about WSIS, > the other one a cybercafe with Linux-operated computers inside. > > Then I remember a thread here 2 (?) years ago, but I cannot remember > by whom, about using adapted big lorries for a CTC. > > Bye > > Claude > -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
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