Dear GKD Members,
We would like to announce our first World Civil Society Forum that will
be held in Geneva, July 2002. The working group on the Information
Society will prepare civil society input for the second PREPCOM and
generally discuss different aspects of the digital divide. Please find
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I am in agreement with Cornelio Hopmann and Michel Menou about CID
Readness Guide.
I have a lot of criticisms but I add just one:
The most fundamental things in future information society are Education
and Healthcare. To have a well educated people and in good health is the
main challenge. But t
I am with Media Lab Asia (www.medialabasia.org) and we are exploring the
use of 802.11 technology for rural networks. However, we envisage these
as small village telcos that will be set up by rural entrepreneurs.
Decades of experience with Universal Service Obligation etc makes it
clear that the b
Mr. Hopmann's comments on the CID E-Readiness Guide are most useful.
A number of other caveats can be added, e.g. about the thresholds for
the successive levels, the relative emphasis on E-Business and E-Gov at
the expense of human resources, social capital, learning, etc., the lack
of clear link
THE PENGUIN AS ENGINEER: TAKING GNU/LINUX TO THE PORTALS OF HIGHER
EDUCATION
By Frederick Noronha
IT MAY BE taking its time to get done, but this is one simple idea that
could have a wide-ranging impact for thousand of young
engineers-in-the-making across India.
Put briefly, the idea is simply
I suggest creating an initiative to foster internal collaboration within
as many countries as possible; to form national IP systems following in
the example of PBS. I urge universities to play a leading role. A
national public system could assist communites in establishing local
wireless networks.
