Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] How Much Bandwidth is Necessary?
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 Copernicus University in Torun, Poland and saw students sitting at old IBM computers and transmitting messages to other universities. I had delivered a 'sophisticated' computer-based management learning center to the business school as a donation from Rotary clubs in California to teach business and entrepreneurship for the long-term purpose of creating jobs. I learned that I could far easier communicate with that university by sending a FAX from Pasadena to a professor at University of California - Berkeley who would re-type it and transmit it on the Internet to Poland. The reply would be returned to me by fax from Berkeley. It took another five years before I acquired the capability of e-mailing direct. And I live in the high-tech community of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL)! With this GKD exchange of ideas on how to help the villager get his communication needs met, the time-line will soon compress to less than the five years it took me. And my current computer cost a small fraction of the one ten years ago. C. RAY CARLSON This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
Re: [GKD] Gender and ICT in Jamaica
Training in ICT alone may not attract boys and men if it does not lead to a job. The Youth IT Microenterprise program in Uganda and soon in Zimbabwe and South Africa was formed by the World Bank Institute and Rotary Clubs to provide instruction on how to write a business plan that can lead to a new business that creates jobs. See A similar program can be launched in Jamaica with the help of Rotary Clubs there. C. Ray Carlson President, 2000/2001 Rotary Club of Altadena, California District 5300 Yacine Khelladi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello from Jamaica, where I'm participating in the design of an ICT > community program > > Strangely here the problem is the opposite. In rural areas 70% of the > cybercafes/telecenter users are women, in capital town it is around 50%, > but those who do apply for training are 75% women. It's general in the > country, for example, 70% of the students of the University of West Indies > in Jamaica are women. > > This is of course starting at schools, where most boys quit early, and > girls continue. > > So the problem here might be to design strategies to get more men, > particularly boys and teens, into empowering them-self's, in and through > ICTs, and get them off the street, where crime is often their only > option... > > Any country had to deal with similar situation? ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
