Good point...A fantastic way of ICT application at work would be the elimination of the travel and accomodation expense of conferences, and having the conferences online...now wouldn't that be a true justification of ICT at work, and the financial savings would be huge over the travel of 10 delegates from each country in Africa for an ICT conference.
On 4/21/06, Roland H. Alden wrote: > Not to pick on this particular "conference" but... is > anyone counting the number of these things? Does anyone > question their value? ..snip... > Why are networking people using airplanes and hotels to > overcome distance and share knowledge? What would happen > if everyone that was going to attend these events just > took the money they would pay the Nairobi Hilton and the > Stanley Hotel and spent it on routers and computers for > their nearest school? Instead of more "presentations" on > "next generation networks" how about some real investment > in networks for THIS generation? ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
