On November 7th Wire Lunghabo James wrote about the wider context for
the discussion of broadband.
> However lets not lose sight of the kind of situations we are faced with.
> We are looking at setting up systems which can outlive the "donor life"
> of the project, cheap to maintain and rugged eno
I agree with this Al.
I'll attempt to clarify another aspect of the confusion in the usage of
the term Broadband.
In many usages broadband implies more bandwidth than narrowband. This
is the typical usage in the context of areas with well-developed
traditional communications infrastructures, typi
On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 08:26 AM, Cornelio Hopmann wrote:
> Hence: if the alternative is to connect many (and through-out the
> country) by low-bandwidth or a few with megabyte links, go for the
> first. The latter will come -almost by itself- as technology costs fall
> and demand increas
>> * Week 2: How much bandwidth is necessary to have a real impact on
>>development... and why?
First of all, I admit to having no first-hand, real-life, in the field
experience in non-US environments, but perhaps I can extrapolate from
experiences with our local school district. Originally w
Colleagues,
Yes, I agree with Vickram that this blurb is a bit hard to believe. If
WiFi means 802.11b or 802.11a then this is what I know about Laos and
India (I am afraid I do not know anything about California):
In Laos the folks at Jhai Foundation have TESTED an 802.11b system that
does two-ho
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 03:33 AM, Sandra Roberts wrote:
>> 3. Can information distribution centers (e.g., public access
>> telecenters) offer a viable economic solution to a community's
>> information needs, by, in effect, sharing a single high-bandwidth
>> connection among many users, a
Pam, when you say what we need is to simply connect these people like in
Oke-Ogun (Nigeria) which connectivity technologies are you referring to?
Telephone only? Roads, Telephone and email? Shared web access?
I work for ActionAid Africa and we are very interested in discussing
with any of you abou
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you, Allen Hammond, for your clarifying message. The difference
between ICT, the tool and the information that gets communicated using
the tool is, of course, fundamental.
When I used the phrase "narrowband everywhere", I was not intending this
to be construed in a very nar
Dear GKD Members,
During the past two weeks, GKD members have discussed impressive
activities that are managing to bring connectivity to under-served
areas, overcoming an array of obstacles and limited resources. They have
described innovative approaches to utilizing, modifying and
experimenting w
