Dear GKD Members,
In response to the dynamism and value of your contributions, DOT-COM
would like to continue the focused discussion on Access for Underserved
Areas, through this week. Our deep thanks for the consistent, extremely
high quality of your input.
Best regards,
GKD Moderators
If we were to ask What SHOULD be on the horizon?, then I would answer:
IMHO, the number one thing that would help Africa catch up to the
technology revolution would be the elimination of the telecom
monopolies. Whether by allowing competition from both internal and
external vendors, privatization
3. Where should we focus our efforts during the coming 3 years? On ICT
policy? Creating ICT projects with revenue-generation models that are
quickly self-supporting? Demonstrating the value of ICT to developing
country communities?
Universities in developing countries need to build their ICT
I agree strongly with Simon Woodside's answers--experimentation, more
modern technology, and broadband. But I was also struck by what another
contributor said, e.g. Find successful and sustainable activities.
Replicate. Get constraints out of the way. Get funding on the right
basis. Let the demand
Simon Woodside wrote:
I would say rather that the different technologies that are available
are so different and so randomly effective it's impossible to say that
either low-bandwidth or high-bandwidth is better.
Maybe it is because we are thinking upside down? We should not first
look at the
My two bits...
1. What new high impact technologies are on the 3-year horizon? Who
(exactly) needs to do what (concretely) to make those technologies
widely available?
Optical frequencies communication for exceptionally low power, very high
bandwidth, short distance communications
