It is high time to find a technology that will end this holy cow
computerisation, so typical of India. I don't know if this attitude
holds in other 3rd world countries too.
The same thing happenned in several organisations including banks and
commercial firms throughout the 70s to the 90s, that th
Regarding Karin Delgadillo's posting on the social use and appropriation
of ICTs in Jamica you may be interested to learn of the work of some of
Computer Aid's partners.
Computer Aid has sent professionally refurbished PCs to Kingston School
to St Patrick's Youth Training Project and on two occasi
Nice to see this list is back after the hiatus. I have heard that the
Civil Society groups have been having trouble at the WSIS prepcoms. I do
not see how a world information SOCIETY can be discussed without a full
and adequate treatment of the concerns of the Civil Society
representatives.
simon
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/viewRotisserie.do?rotisserieId=285
Interesting question being posed by the author: Should the developing
world fund research to build a low cost (read around $100) computer or
invest in building IT/education upon the platform of a device such as
internet-capable mobiles.
