[GKD] Improving Access in Remote Australia

Apologies to those on slow modems, but I don't have a website to put this up on right now (although I suppose I should do something with yahoo or geocities). Below is a paper I wrote a while ago describing my experiences and "learnings" from a number of quite large and fairly recent projects I wa

[GKD] RFI: Distance Education in Remote Aboriginal Communities

Dear GKD Members, I joined this group a few days ago and am very excited about the broad range of topics that are discussed here. For several years I have worked in remote aboriginal communities in British Columbia, Canada. From what I have seen, the types of distance education systems being uti

[GKD] Digital Dividends Conference

The Digital Dividends conference was held last Sept in Seattle. The website is You can see online Real Video of almost all the speeches, including ones by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos (Amazon.Com CEO), Carly Fiorini (Hewlett Packard CEO) and other leaders. I attended th

Re: [GKD] Farm Sector Information System

This is Zubair from Pakistan. My organization ePoor.org is also working on the idea of a meta-portal/hub for Pakistan which would address law, governance, market (ecommerce), education, and health needs of communities. The challenge lies in developing IT solution for the poor according to their ne

Re: [GKD] Re: Digital Divide: good and bad

For an extraordinary visual 'take' on the global didgital divide, list participants might wish to look at the composite night picture of the globe taken from orbiting DMSP satellites, at: While admittedly a mixed sampling, it is one more window on

Re: [GKD] Farm Sector Information System

Even though Internet is a useful tool for all those who love chats, on line data bases, fora and web sites, the reality in our countries is that Internet still to be a very "high tech" and elite means (still more on rural areas or farm sector). That's why we work more with national networks that p