at BOP levels worldwide... and
bringing them on board, rather than bypassing them, seems to be the crux
of implementing these kinds of reforms
John Lawrence
On 8/5/05, Jim Stodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I've been an occasional lurker on this List for years. I have a
question
Dear GKD Members,
I've recently done some digging around Tom's point below concerning a
lot of venting, some of it inconsistent at best, on 'boomerang'
bilateral money invested in development (i.e., returning funds to the
source). OXFAM has suggested that only about 20% of aid actually gets to
through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN)
Program (see for example the call to the Somalia Diaspora to engage in
rebuilding that country) at http://www.so.undp.org/Home.htm
John Lawrence
UNDP consultant, and
Adjunct Professor, SIPA
Columbia University.
On 12/30/04, David Sawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
investments in this process are argued for by drug
companies as rationale for high prices, and relentless profit seeking
In the social service arena, do we go out too readily with marketing
'products' (services) based on little except flawed 'best case'
precedents... ?
John Lawrence
and exploratory members of
those communities not to seek opportunity wherever they can find
it...and as Femi suggests, culture will not inhibit this
quasi-instinctual drive, but in fact will promote it.
Kind regards,
John Lawrence
On June 18, 2004, Tom Abeles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sam
from Yemen where cellphones predominate, and coverage has
been obtained over most of the country... so voice connections are now
relatively normal even to remote rural districts...but Internet of
course (notwithstanding the Arabic language issue) is largely confined
just to cities...
John Lawrence
I completely agree with your observation that ICTs remain underdeveloped
as the foundation for an entirely new approach .. but am not sure yet
another meeting is needed! Somehow we have to deal with the remaining
luddites in the policy arena, and mainstream ICTs into development
thinking above
The following appeared in UNWIRE:
http://www.unwire.org/unwire/current.asp#26985
Is this e-info dying a natural death thru inattention, thus
relieving clogged info-highways, or is this a serious issue of
non-archiving of essential knowledge?
TECHNOLOGY: Digital Information Is Vanishing,
This seems a good candidate for a thoughtful case study, especially
appropriate during the International Year of the Mountains. I am amazed
that mountains symbolize essential communications sites for cell towers
and other hardware, yet the people dwelling in those same mountains
seldom seem able
To Yacine: It is hard to disagree with your pithily expressed
frustration, or sharp definition of the social schisms underlying the
'digital divide' (DD) however I would suggest there is some
political utility in keeping these two words as a sort of quick
shorthand.. if it can focus the
This gets at the heart of development efforts to match western
infotechnologies and local social and cultural processes. Particularly
interesting is the effort to understand the differences in perceptual
organization, and therefore knowledge 'management' at the most
fundamental levels. Can I ask,
Mridula, thank you for this update on the INFODEV-supported SITA and
MitraMandal, around which you raise crucial questions of job placement
for project trainees. As I'm sure you know, the relationship between
training and presumed 'jobs' that hypothetically await successful
trainees has always
I was going through Grand Central station in New York City just before
Christmas, and while buying bagels in the new GC market, I struck up a
brief post 9/11 commiseration with the person serving me ( a woman).
She assured me confidently that 9/11 was a function of the huge global
social divide
To Nihil Desai...
you raise interesting issues in your laconic treatment of the
numbers. which connect to Remigio Achia's zinging criticism of
expensive western consultants, in the following way not only do they
(we) come in with expense accounts and a marked reluctance to venture
forth
Thanks for pointing to the intriguing summary of the Digital Village
effort. One quick question: the following quote:
records of members are kept for those using the digital village.
Members book in for half hour slots at a time and depending on how full
the Centre is a member may re-book
I'm really glad to see the return of this forum... as an inaugural
addict, I've been in withdrawal. Rather than suppose (or impose) a theme,
my contribution is a quick question:
the world's mountain regions contain some of the most remote, and
poorest communities, often with profound natural
Very useful analysis I would add illiteracy and language restrictions
to this causal pattern, but doesn't this raise an important policy question
concerning the digital divide? Since time can only exacerbate the gap
between those who are already profiting (in various ways) from Internet
For information.
Subject: [DEOS-L] call for papers: Digital Divide
From: Teri Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CALL FOR PAPERS
EJC/REC: Electronic Journal of Communication/
La Revue Electronique de Communication
A
This is a good point. We found many occasions in our early UNDP
experimentation with e-LISTS where southern access was through northern
servers. This included ex-pat nationals who were studying/posted
temporarily to northern countries, as well as those using northern dialup
services from southern
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