Don Richardson asked that we add examples to those he enumerated, regarding ICT initiatives that fail to attract attention because no donor is involved. Here is one:
- the effect of moble phones in unconnected rural remote areas. These are actually fall outs from major market centres like big towns and cities. These form the only ICT use in these communitites and sometimes they are used under very trying conditions where there is no electricity to recharge phone batteries, sources of recharge cards are very far from the users, technical support services are not available. But people still use these for both personal and small businesses especially in linking with suppliers and customers in the cities. I can cite an example of a farmer in central Tanzania who rides his bicycle with his mobile to a near hill. Climbs the hill to be able to get a signal, and asks his contact in Dar es Salam about the prices of highly perishable tomatoes and arranging for delivery of the same to his agent in the city. What studies have been made on the impact of these? ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** 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.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
