Dear Colleagues, To all who have provided suggestions for this infoDev study, please accept my heartfelt thanks. The quantity and breadth of projects people have proposed has been gratifying; I have learned about more than just the same old five-or-so pet projects that everyone points to and studies to death.
A list of case studies is shaping up. I am still seeking particularly exciting examples of applied ICT in the field of local governance, which has proved most nettlesome of all the five categories at which I am looking. To reiterate the criteria, these projects needn't involve computers perforce, but rather should simply be examples of for-profit companies using handhelds, cellphones, even (I suppose) solar-powered semaphore--anything that genuinely lowers the cost of information in a sustainable fashion. However, I am not so interested in ISPs, but rather what I like to think of as second-order companies--client companies of ISPs, if you will. By sustainable, I mean exactly that--able to make it on its own revenues by virtue of the fact that this company is providing a product or service that the market values sufficiently. Foreign NGOs can have provided initial seed money to overcome high capital investment costs, but as for ongoing (marginal, to use the economics term) costs, these must be covered by current revenue. Knowledge is a public good; when this report is finished, it will be available to all in some fashion. Regards, Peter Baldwin -- URL: www.anapurnawebdesign.com CV: www.peterbaldwin.info ------------ ***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/>
