The E-Commerce for Non-Traditional Exports Project being implemented by
the Ministry of Food & Agriculture, Ghana, and supported by the
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) seeks
to:
"provide efficient promotion and increased market transparency to
improve the negotiati
Dear GKD Colleagues:
I am following up on the series of emails that have gone back and forth
on this topic. I am a consultant who spent 19 years with HP prior to
taking early retirement last year. My last role was National Business
Development Manager for Education and Healthcare and I was engaged
Mauritania, West Africa has fairly good internet access in regional
capitals. It costs less than $1/hour in most cases. Smaller towns
often don't have electricity, so that's another battle.
Peace Corps volunteers such as myself are involved in helping
Mauritanians acquire computer skills.
It will
Peter Burgess wrote:
> There can be activities to bring connectivity to the underserved, but it
> will never be done with the organizational and funding framework that
> dominates development space today. The technology is available. The
> people are available. But the business model and value cha
