My name is Sandra Roberts, I work with a project designed to support ICT
initiatives in the SADC (Southern African Development community) region.
We are represented currently in 12 of the 13 countries in SADC and have
nodal points in Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa.
Recently we conducted researc
Hello List Members and Wire,
I write as a UK volunteer supporting Oke-Ogun Community Development
Agenda 2000 Plus (OOCD 2000+) in rural Nigeria.
This is in response to what Wire Lunghabo James sent to the list on
Tuesday, November 04, 2003 saying that high bandwidth is not a
pre-requisite to impa
Here is a bandwidth sharing option I have been thinking about. I plan to
deploy this in Indonesia soon. The idea is to get a business, (perhaps a
bank?) that has some bandwidth in a district setting, to share its
bandwidth with a health center through a wireless access point placed
somewhere near t
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:26, Peter Burgess wrote:
> My vote is for narrowband EVERYWHERE connecting little local nodes.
> Improve the local infrastructure, and don't focus just on the
> international part of it. And my vote is for using technology to reduce
> the cost and price of basic communicat
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 locall
I'd like to reply to Peter Burgess and clear up an important
misconception. Connectivity is essential for local networking, for
access to information, for local content generation, for increasing
transparency and trust, for e-commerce--so its not the goal, but it is a
critical tool. In most develop
Mark Lediard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here is a bandwidth sharing option I have been thinking about. I plan to
> deploy this in Indonesia soon. The idea is to get a business, (perhaps a
> bank?) that has some bandwidth in a district setting, to share its
> bandwidth with a health center throug
