On 11/12/2003, Cliff Missen wrote:
> You can still go into markets in much of the developing world and find
> someone whose business it is to write letters for others. (I like to
> harken back to old American Western movies where the farmer strides into
> the Western Union Telegraph station, hooks
In India, we have the public call offices (PCOs) -- essentially manned
telephone booths where the revenues are shared between the telco and the
PCO operator. There are more than 600,000 of these PCOs across the
country. There are many Community Information Centres where one can
access the Internet
Dear GKD Members,
During the past three weeks, GKD members have discussed a number of
intriguing technical solutions to bringing access to underserved
communities, several of which have demonstrated promise in the field.
Especially noteworthy are various forms of wireless connectivity, in
combinat
Sorry for piping up without an intro, but I just returned from Uganda.
There community radio stations offer an email service to rural
listeners. Friends can email you care of the radio station and, at a
designated time, the radio will alert everyone who has received an
email. The charge for receivi
John,
Voice connections are still absent in far too many parts of rural Africa
- and other LDCs. Fola Odufuwa's email hits the nail on the head -
market liberalization, open investment climate, good regulation (that
supports universal access).
On a related note, while GSM may not currently be as
Congratulations! Fola Odufuwa has got it exactly right, IMHO. As we look
for what was referred to in some previous posts as 'narrowband'
solutions, the evolution of the mobile phone from a simple audio
communication device to an internet gateway may prove to be the answer.
While we won't get the sp
Scale up is clearly a challenging question and one that seems to have
left us all pondering since it was put to the list. UNESCO is going to
launch a scale-up initiative at the ICT4D Platform in Geneva (conference
event No. 1.3) on 10 December, together with the Swiss Agency for
Development and Coo
