/Fantsuam Foundation mini-solar
project I wrote about previously.
Pam McLean
CAWD - supporting Community Action for Welfare and Development
(CAWD volunteers use home Internet connectivity on behalf of rural
development projects - new volunteers welcome)
Cornelio Hopmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
foCentre is still being developed. There
is a lot of learning to be done along the way. I don't know what
agencies could best supply that initial pump-priming funding to enable
the essential learning to take place.
Apologies for a long answer - it was a set of big questions.
Pam McLean
C
I refer to a contribution from Cornelio Hopmann Sent on Wednesday,
December 03, 2003 11:51 PM
> (snip)
> obviously illiteracy is an obstacle to use ICT directly --
> and not only due to the lack of skills in reading and writing,
> (snip)
> indicators: they are implicitly based on an Individual Con
r saving device" should serve. Even now, the greatest high-tech
multi-programme clothes-washer-drier makes a poor job of cooking
Christmas lunch. We need to be sure that discussions about ICTs are on
the "appliance level" - not just "white goods provide the answer to
every
is discussion continuing in
the background. It will serve to illustrate the kind of information
exchange which is possible this way. The link is
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pam.mclean/BaaleAgbe.wmv
Pam McLean
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be around when there are
opportunities to learn about computers. There are lots of chores to be
done when electricity and running water are scarce and there are no
labour saving gadgets. Toby helps me too when I'm in Ago-Are and I would
like to help him in return. Any more ideas like the encry
awareness was the next, opening the
InfoCentre was another, starting the first services and training at the
InfoCentre, albeit in a small way, has come next, connectivity is
another objective.
Getting email services would be a great step forward, well worth
striving for both in its own righ
t is the most effective system available to us.
Pam McLean
CAWD UK volunteer on behalf of OOCD 2000+ (Oke-Ogun Community
Development Agenda 2000 Plus)
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know we need to communicate into and out of and across Oke-Ogun,
and we don't want to wait until someone provides a mobile phone network.
Pam McLean
CAWD UK Volunteer on behalf of OOCD 2000+ (Oke-Ogun Community
Development Agenda 2000 Plus)
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ntres (one in each of
the ten local government areas of Oke-Ogun) and all gradually cascading
out to the surrounding areas. However, my (non techie) understanding of
the wireless solution to cascading out is that there are problematic
bureaucratic hurdles, like needing a licence. Maybe we can discuss
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