My name is Modesto Ombiga, and I am the Executive Director for an
organization that fights against HIV/AIDS and uses prevention strategies
for the reduction of HIV infection. I strongly believe that ICT is
powerful and can enhance development work. We need information to reach
the targeted people about development. It can be on any development
topic: clean water, healthy conditions, pandemic like HIV/AIDS, malaria,
etc. We need to communicate that message to the people by using a new
technology that accelerates the delivery of the message, hence the
Internet.
The components needed to make this technology work, require development
tools. These include electric power, telephone, infrustracture and
environment that accepts this ICT to work. Education is one important
component that must be included too. The question is did GKD help us
bring this knowledge out to the development of the poor? The answer is
definitely, "YES". It allowed members to share openly all aspects of
ICT. Members exchanged many ideas. Others said before ICT, feed the
people who are poor and have no where to live (homeless), no food, no
clothing and the sick. Do we have societies under these conditions? The
answer is also "YES". But the way I see it, we need the poor to have
information about their situation and that information must be
communicated to them by using an appropriet technology, affordable, easy
to use.
Thanks for the GKD to invest on this knowledge sharing program.
Modesto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------
***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership***
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.globalknowledge.org>
