Dear Colleagues,
Whether profit is essential on not for successful ICT for Development
activities depends on the nature and over all mission of the activity
under question. Profits are certainly necessary for financial
sustainability.
As far as I know, however, the profit is not the
Dear GKD Members,
I'm Jim Forster. I am a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems and have
worked here since close to the beginning.
Bettina Hammerich made some very good points in her recent posting that
also pertain to the current question of the role of profitability,
including:
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Initial remarks: the Moderator's question does not contain a definition
of profit; it might be a monetary return on invested capital, it might
be an excess over pure operation-costs, it might be equal to the
operation costs but those who use the offered ICT-services do better by
using those
