Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] How Can ICT Create New Business Partnerships?

2004-11-22 Thread Valentina Taseva
Dear GKD Members, I work with Semos, Macedonia's largest IT training company. In order to develop, Macedonia has to address one of our most critical needs -- the need for better management skills among companies and young people coming out of school. Macedonia now has over 35% unemployment and we

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Is Profitability Essential for Sustainability?

2004-11-22 Thread John . Rogers
Dear Colleagues, Vickram Crishna's comment But only if I wasn't prepared to think that maybe there are other paybacks taking place, just that my monetary or even my measurement system hasn't learned to be flexible or inclusive enough is my cue to introduce myself. My name is John Rogers. I am

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What Do We Mean By Poor?

2004-11-22 Thread Gary Garriott
Colleagues: In previous posts Cornelio Hopmann has placed a heavy emphasis on the need for before-after or target-control group evaluations and analysis when designing interventions using ICTs. When we are talking about the rural poor, I am wondering if there are limits to our ability to make

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Is Profitability Essential for Sustainability?

2004-11-22 Thread Jeff Cochrane
Answer: Of course not. But it might be the best answer in many more cases than we think. *** Take any given activity deemed socially worthy -- an educational radio boradcast, for example. If it is socially worthy, then by definition it **should** happen. How, then, shall the costs of