Re: [GKD] Launch of Digital Opportunity Channel

2002-06-03 Thread Tom Abeles
Bruce Potter's self styled carping raises a number of critical issues. One of these is the value of much of the governmental or semi-governmental organizations such as the World Bank in the ICT/KM arena. 1) Bruce claims that he has had difficulty extracting useful information from many of these

Re: [GKD] Launch of Digital Opportunity Channel

2002-05-29 Thread Potter at Island Resources
WHINING AND CARPING by potter [skip to the good parts below if you've heard it all before . . . ] As moderator for a couple dozen e-mail lists (grown up over the past five or six years) for something like 2200 users in the insular Caribbean (check it out at http://www.irf.org/mailings.htm), I

Re: [GKD] Launch of Digital Opportunity Channel

2002-05-23 Thread Global Somaliland Women
Alan Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a classic example of where ICT infrastructure money goes... to another one of countless channels: To amplify our power, there is the blendability of the new digital technologies, the multiplying power of networks, the interdependability of human

Re: [GKD] Launch of Digital Opportunity Channel

2002-05-23 Thread Alec Leggat
Alan Levy is somewhat vitriolic in his condemnation of yet another talking shop. Like him I lurk in some of the Digital Divide listservs. But, unlike him, I don't know or pretend to understand the detailed politics of the actors involved in digital divide dealings. Unlike him I don't contribute