Vicram Crishna wrote:
Today, villager's messages are being delivered on paper to an Internet
Cafe and then transcribed into email for delivery worldwide by someone
who holds an email account.
This reminds me of my first encounter with the Internet in 1992 when I
visited the Nicholas
Perhaps we should ask: what could be on the horizon? After all, this is
a question more likely to lead to proposals for action that are feasible
in terms of their possible payoff in the medium term if appropriate action
would be taken now. In that connection I would suggest an examination of
the
This new set of questions is intriguing. I am not sure I agree with the
direction of the questions and the focus on magic bullet technologies.
First, I submit that the focus of efforts should be on policy,
particularly universal access policy. IDRC's Acacia programme, DFID's
CATIA programme and
On the issue of intermediaries, while acknowledging the very valid
concerns pointed out by Don Osborne, I'd just like to add that some work
has been done to try and get around some of these problems. The voices
in their hands project by a Philips Researcher, Paul Rankin
Dear GKD Members,
In response to the question asked on What's on the Horizon, to us in the
developing world it is more or less provision of basic connectivity,
integrating basic services in the connectivity and a lot of capacity
building. I wish to concentrate on educational delivery and discuss
Dear GKD colleagues,
I'm very happy to learn of this discussion, and of the many people
working on these issues. My name is Andrius Kulikauskas and in 1998 I
founded Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt a private business, and open
laboratory in Lithuania, that serves and organizes independent thinkers
Aaron Sundsmo's call for low-cost, low-bandwidth email technology is
exactly what VITA pushed for many years through the low orbiting
satellite store-and-forward email system designed for remote areas. We
had wonderful demos using this technology, but, sadly, the technology
could not be
