How the Rest Can Catch Up With the West
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or
write; they will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn.
-- Alan Tofler
Subscriptions to mobile telephones exceeded the number of fixed
telephones globally in 2002,
Regarding Tony Roberts' reply to Simon Woodside:
Simon Woodside wrote:
Not only that, but the high cost of a PC or a laptop needs to be
considered. A PC is expensive, whether it's connected to high-bandwidth
or low. So a substantial sum of the total ICT investment isn't going to
change no
Cliff, this is a very interesting line of argument -- if this way of
using the internet through an intermediary is a general practice in
Africa because of the lack of connectivity, it might mean amending some
of the theories of Internet communication from the idea of the Internet
as a many-to-one
Since much of the Internet technology (laptops, telecentres etc) seems
to be landline based, yet it is cellular telephony that is flourishing
in many of the less developed countries, is there a 'disconnect' here
that may be inhibiting the spread of the Internet to rural areas?...I
just came back
Hello,
I'm happy to hear Stuart Gannes' voice on alternative means of
connectivity. Stuart's Digital Vision program has been instrumental in,
among many other activities, promoting the use of store-and-forward
models as a way to deliver information services in advance of reliable
connectivity.
I would like to call everyone's attention to the NetHope project, a
consortium of ten (and growing) international non-profit relief and
development agencies who have banded together to bring Internet
connectivity the last hundred kilometers to the project areas in which
we work around the globe.
On 11/10/03 18:43, Guido Sohne wrote:
This is very interesting to me but raises some questions related to
practical use and implementation. It basically seems that 'offline'
content is being maintained in a somewhat current state by periodically
syncing with upstream information. You mention
