Thank you Simon Batchelor and Roberto Verzola for your information on
the VCD players.
I did not know VCD players existed and looked at pictures of some on the
Internet. I am very excited. I had been looking for something exactly
like this - something that is cheap, can run without an electric
WHAT ELSE HAS QUIPUNET BEEN DOING?
By itself, not much, lately. However, before you judge let me tell you
of the mitoses (plural) that Quipunet started:
E-Connexions.LLC .- Started by some of the original founders of
Quipunet. It was created to learn e-commerce and to help small
businesses in
Yacine raises a very important, but I fear often overlooked point: any
technologies, ICTs included, should only be seen as a means to an end.
Acquisition of technologies should never, or at best very very rarely,
be seen as the end in itself.
And, partly adopting a role of Devil's Advocate, I
Yacine raises a good point, and it relates to both semantics and
actions. Terms and expressions such as bridging the digital divide
and sustainability stand for concepts and approaches to development
that mean (meant) something, but their formulaic repetition tends to
blur them into
Dear GKD Members,
I'm in basic agreement with Yacine Khelladi. For the last several years
I have referred to the Education Divides, the Opportunity Divides and
Economic Divides (all similar to what you call the Social Divide) that
pre-date and help to shape the Digital Divide (and I know others
