Tariq Mohammed wrote:
A little over a year ago, I arrived in Uganda as United Nations
Volunteer (UNV). The purpose of this message is to update ICT4D
practitioners about the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Initiative, a
private-public partnership between Cisco Systems, UNDP, UNV, ITU and
I came across this interesting piece by a friend of mine:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html
Abstract:
There is a strong case for free software (also known as open source or
libre software) being deployed widely in developing countries. As argued
in this note, the open
On 11/10/03 18:43, Guido Sohne wrote:
This is very interesting to me but raises some questions related to
practical use and implementation. It basically seems that 'offline'
content is being maintained in a somewhat current state by periodically
syncing with upstream information. You mention
Hello Robert and others,
On 11/05/03 09:14, Robert Miller wrote:
With regard to Ahmed's note and the great work he is doing by bringing
Internet literacy to the students in his university in Nigeria, what if
you could connect one Campus Content server to that Internet connection
and locally
Dear GKD Members,
I got back from Kenya after serving there as a VSO [1] volunteer for a
year. I was teaching IT in a womens college in a rural place called
Tala. I also trained the staff on the more advanced subjects of the
curriculum.
First, let me talk about the state of connectivity in the
On 10/13/03 03:01, Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan wrote:
Has anyone on this list come across a deployment of ICT specifically
meant for powering computers in rural areas? I would be interested in
hearing about this.
You can check Jhai Foundation's Remote IT Village Project at:
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/viewRotisserie.do?rotisserieId=285
Interesting question being posed by the author: Should the developing
world fund research to build a low cost (read around $100) computer or
invest in building IT/education upon the platform of a device such as
internet-capable
