WHY do they hold these meetings in Geneva? Why don't they hold them in the REAL world, say....Nigeria or (dare I say it) Appalacia or Indian reservations in the South West of the United States? Or maybe inner-city Chicago...the Digital Divide is not an "African thing".
If the digital divide is so narrow, why don't they hold them virtually? Or, if the digital divide is wide, why don't they hold them virtually?
For those who don't have connectivity, where the divide is wide, conference organizers could send bus tickets to the nearest telecenter....but if the divide is narrow, anyone of consequence could get to a telecenter on foot..or at worst, on bike.
Like Jim Madddog Hall, this nonsense pisses me off. Plenty of money to sit in the front of the airplane and hob-nob in fancy hotels; but very little money to provide chalk, water pumps and training to clean the chicken coops.
John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs
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