Hi all, I was hoping to see more comments on this note trying to establish a link between the digital divide and debt forgiving in developing nations, but apparently there isn't much interest. I live in one of those countries whose debt was written off, but not in Africa, instead in Central America. I'm referring to Honduras. Honduras has a very interesting Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS). The highest committee that decides project financing in the land is the Presidential Social Cabinet. Right below it, in an advisory role, is the PRS Consulting Committee (CC-PRS). This Committee is now sending up projects and prioritizing them so that funds get put into those actions. For this second semester, the country will have about 32 million US$ for social projects dealing with Poverty Reduction. For next year, the country will have about 10 times as much. I was recently in a meeting where 34 project profiles were sent up to the Social Cabinet for the first 32M but none dealt with the digital divide. And judging by what I'm seeing, I don't think any will have anything to do in the 650M for next year. Honduras has a rural telecenter project but apparently there has been no correlation between poverty reduction and bridging the digital divide. Frankly, I thank "Montee" for bringing up the topic. I think that bridging the digital divide could help out very much in poverty reduction and now there are funds available. Why aren't we connecting? Jorge Gallardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- "LaMont \"Montee\" Evans, CEO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings All: > > Now that G-8 has written off $40 billion dollars of > debt for 18 countries, most in Africa - what does > this mean as far as moving technology forward? How > do you all feel this will affect technological > infrastructures of those countries whose debts were > forgiven? > > Our organization is especially interested in Ghana > and all of West Africa. It would be interesting to > have some discourse on how the digital divide will > be bridged now that some countries have more > resources in-country. > > ----------------------- > "The responsibility for change...lies within us. We > must begin with > ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds > prematurely to > the novel, the surprising, and the seemingly > radical." > > LaMont "Montee" Evans > Chief Executive Officer, > Healthy Black Communities, Inc. > 2978 Rainbow Drive > Suite A155 > Decatur, Georgia 30034 > > P: 888.451.1072 > F: 404.972.0300 > www.healthyblackcommunities.org > _______________________________________________ > 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. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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.
