Hi, list,
Taran Rampersad wrote: There was a time when this list was a thriving cornucopia of ideas, > thoughts, and much more. And I wonder whether people are still > interested in that sort of discussion. > Taran, I don't think the topic has been abandoned, and I truly believe people is not only still interested but increasingly interested in discussing the digital divide, nptech, ICT4D, etc. The "problem" is that back in 1999 we "only" had discussion lists (and newsgroups and a couple of websites) and now there's blogs, wikis, fora, twitter and a zillion more tools. Trying to focus the debate a little bit, it is my opinion that: - we already get information from plenty of places and there is no need for yet another channel that supplies information: so, no website - we (more or less) already know who's who, what are they working on and with whom or where: so, no social networking site - what we might be lacking of is somewhere to put up questions at random, where to air doubts from scratch: a list (and just a list) is what fits here And if we add to these "strategic" aspects other issues such as economic and long-term sustainability, a plain list is what, IMHO, applies. I'd second Andy's proposal to recruit some volunteers and let the list run (smoothly) for a while. i. -- Ismael Peña-López ICTlogy.net Public Policies for Development and ICT4D School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
