WorldSpace is a broadcast system. With a WorldSpace system you are only
capable of receiving data, not sending it. While I think WorldSpace is a
great and wonderful thing, it's very dangerous if people thinking it's a
substitute for the real thing which is an internet connection that
allows
I think what Allen is speaking of here can be generalized:
IMHO, ICT is a tool (or more accurately, a very large suite of tools)
that can be used to achieve a wide array of goals. It is not more, and
it is not less. Tools have been around for thousands of years, and
though the implementation of
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?
It seems to me that most of the component technologies needed for
deploying ICT in rural areas are already in place. What really needs to
be
As for Guido Sohne's comment on battery life of hand-helds:
Of course the real alternative is in effecient circuit design and
perhaps the genre of mini fuel cells being researched on by various East
Asian companies.
However, there is one solution in low-cost solar power. Do visit
Njideka, This is an interesting initiative and the notion of scanning
handwritten letters is a nice innovation as it permits a more direct
communication of content.
It's not clear from your third point,
3) The youth agents will have a customized form they will use to
document the message(s).
