Hi! I am Salman Ansari from Pakistan. I have spent 3 years in the government (in real life I am a consultant in Telecom and IT) as the Senior Advisor to the Minster of IT and Telecoms, creating the IT and Telecom Polices and spearheading their implementation in different areas including e-Government, telemedicine, etc. currently I am doing work for the UNDP in different countries like Malaysia, Cambodia and Samoa on the issues of ICT Policies and reduction of the digital divide.
Digital divide has many connotations in our part of the world. Here even the spread of cheap cellular phone service equipped with data capabilities like EDGE and GPRS in GSM and Brew in CDMA are a tremendous enabler for reducing the digital inequity and empowering the disadvantaged. On the issue of ICT Policies, I think the best Primer for creating ICT Policies that has been made by APDIP and this is available for free. I can send a copy to those who may be interested or anyone can request it from APDIP or download it from their site (www.apdip.net). More later. Salman Ansari _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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.
