Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-17 Thread Pamela McLean
On 11/15/04, Cornelio Hopmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (4) Please name a single example listed at www.digitaldividends.org that shows using comparative data (either before/after or group-in-question/control-group) that the poor end-users of ICT-services were made less poor by using ICT. This

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What New Technologies and Business Models are on the Horizon?

2004-11-17 Thread Lee Thorn
On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, Ken DiPietro wrote: To give you a specific example, not including the upstream connection to the net, we can provide everything necessary to connect and distribute access to 10 points in a town (with specific RF requirements taken into account) for well under

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What New Technologies and Business Models are on the Horizon?

2004-11-17 Thread Harold Bledsoe
Dear GKD List Members, I, too, am grateful to be part of this list. Ken DiPietro and I have known each other and worked together for several years now. We operate a wireless ISP in Georgia as well as market low-cost outdoor hardware to other wireless ISPs. I strongly feel that we can help out

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-17 Thread Tom Abeles
Hi Al, Guess I am still a Doubting Thomas. Perhaps we need to go back and define poverty and exactly what this means. Is it different in a developed country and a developing world? Is it based on consumption? The old solar example is very good here. If I hang my clothes out to dry, my capital